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'''Electronic Associates, Inc.''' ('''EAI''') was a major [[analog computing]] company during the 1950s and 1960s. At one point they 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.
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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.
  
 
== Analog computers==
 
== 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.
 
* {{eai|PACE|PACE Series}}
 
* {{eai|PACE|PACE Series}}
 
* {{eai|PACE 24A}}
 
* {{eai|PACE 24A}}

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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.

Analog computers

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

Hybrid computers

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

Minicomputers


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