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'''Electronic Associates, Inc.''' ('''EAI''') was a major [[analog computing]] company during the 1950s and 1960s. During the later 1960s into the 1970s they attempted to transition into [[hybrid computer]]. EAI's hybrid computers were still in wide-spread use well into the 1980s.
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'''Electronic Associates, Inc.''' ('''EAI''') was a major [[analog computer|analog computing]] company during the 1950s and 1960s. At one point EAI became the largest supplier of general-purpose analog computers. During the later 1960s into the 1970s they attempted to transition into [[hybrid computer]]. EAI's hybrid computers were still in wide-spread use well into the 1980s. On 07/03/1992 EAI was renamed '''EA industries Inc.''' EAI filed for bankruptcy on 06/02/1999, most of the assets were sold to a variety of other firms.<ref>{{apa web|title=SEC EDGAR Submission 0000950115-99-000866|rmonth=12|ryear=2015|rday=1|url=http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/containers/fix012/313096/000095011599000866/0000950115-99-000866-index.htm}}</ref>
  
== Analog computer==
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== Analog computers==
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By the early 60s, over 70% of all precision general purpose analog computers were designed and built by EAI.
 
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== Hybrid computers==
 
== Hybrid computers==
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EAI called their hybrid systems '''HYDAC''' which was short for '''Hybrid Digital/Analog computer'''.
 
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[[Category:analog computer companies]]

Latest revision as of 15:26, 29 December 2015

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Electronic Associates, Inc. (EAI) was a major analog computing company during the 1950s and 1960s. At one point EAI became the largest supplier of general-purpose analog computers. During the later 1960s into the 1970s they attempted to transition into hybrid computer. EAI's hybrid computers were still in wide-spread use well into the 1980s. On 07/03/1992 EAI was renamed EA industries Inc. EAI filed for bankruptcy on 06/02/1999, most of the assets were sold to a variety of other firms.[1]

Analog computers[edit]

By the early 60s, over 70% of all precision general purpose analog computers were designed and built by EAI.

Hybrid computers[edit]

EAI called their hybrid systems HYDAC which was short for Hybrid Digital/Analog computer.

Minicomputers[edit]

References[edit]

  1. "SEC EDGAR Submission 0000950115-99-000866". Retrieved 12 1, 2015, from http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/containers/fix012/313096/000095011599000866/0000950115-99-000866-index.htm.