Hybrid Computers

                     What is Hybrid Computers? 

  During the period from the early 1960s to the early 1970s, electronic analog computers were increasingly combined with a digital computer in hybrid systems. The idea was to combine the easy programmability of a general purpose digital computer with the ability of a large electronic analog computer to solve substantial, complex problems, notably large sets of nonlinear differential equations, or to simulate challenging spaceflights and "person-in-the-Loop" situations in real time. A number of specialty hybrid systems emerged in the mid- to late 1960s and early 1970s. An unusual such system was the Trice digital analog computer developed by the Packard Bell Company and used by NASA for spaceflight simulation.

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