Dave sent in the following links to Dan Slater's Buchla pages. Note the URLs are web archive. I tried going to the original URLs and they are gone. site one
site two
Interesting note by Reed in the comments:
"Not long ago a 60-something rocket scientist visited my studio, looked at the Buchla & said, "that looks like what we used to simulate missile flights!" He said even after digital computers became the mainstay, the analog computers were much more accurate and a lot more intuitive to program. In his opinion, the digital ones took over because it was a lot quicker to recall earlier simulations... no messy patchcords, etc., but at the same time a lot of finesse was lost.
Sound familiar?"
Not long ago a 60-something rocket scientist visited my studio, looked at the Buchla & said, "that looks like what we used to simulate missile flights!" He said even after digital computers became the mainstay, the analog computers were much more accurate and a lot more intuitive to program. In his opinion, the digital ones took over because it was a lot quicker to recall earlier simulations... no messy patchcords, etc., but at the same time a lot of finesse was lost.
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Grr... couple of the equations in the "Chaos" paper were posted as images that didn't survive the archiving. Dan Slater would call that nonlinearity.
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