The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962

The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962(righto.com)

75 points by rsecora 12 days ago | 4 comments

java-man 8 days ago |

Ken's blog is an amazing read!

nxobject 8 days ago |

I imagine the civilian equivalent in size and structure would be a PDP-8/S (bit-serial, still discrete logic?) But DEC material from that time simply calls it a "small-scale computer".

grishka 8 days ago |

"Transfluxor" sounds like something straight out of science fiction.

lambdaone 7 days ago | |

There's not much information about transfluxors available, although a patent for them goes into quite a lot of technical detail, and is referenced in the Wikipedia article.[0] If anyone knows more about this, the Wikipedia article is definitely in need of expansion:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfluxor