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Practical Electronics, December 1978 — Analogue Computer Part 4 (Conclusion)
The concluding instalment (Part 4) of a four-part constructional series on building and programming a home-constructed analogue computer, published in Practical Electronics, December 1978. The article by P. J. Kronis covers programming techniques including damping systems (impulse, step, sinusoidal and random forcing functions), Lissajous figures, flight simulation of a lunar lander with amplitude and time scaling, and a survey of special circuits such as diode limiters, dead-zone, absolute-value, and flip-flop circuits. The issue also contains a corrected patch-panel diagram (Fig. 3.2) that was misprinted in Part 3.
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