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| Boeing Electronic Analog Computer (BEAC)
| | Boeing Airplane Company
| | Seattle, Washington
| | Developed in 1949 by the Physical Research Unit of the
Boeing Airplane Company in connection with a Air Force
contract (possibly the supersonic Bomarc missiles).
And also used by various other groups in the company.
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| Cost of base unit: | $7000 |
| Technology: | Vacuum tubes |
| Operating range: | +/- 50 volts DC |
| Power Supply: | +/- 300 volts DC |
| Computing Elements: | 20 - Amplifiers
(8 of which can only be used as summers or phase inverters) |
| | 20 - Helical potentimeters (0.5%) |
| | 12 - Diodes w/ bias supplies |
| | 5 - Reference-voltage sources |
| | 1 - Calibration bridge |
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