Black Magic and Gremlins
YEAR: 2000
ITEM: Book
COMPANY: US Government Printing Office
COUNTRY: USA
IN OUR COLLECTION: Yes
The full title of this oversized book (8.5" x 11"; 232 pages) is Black Magic and Gremlins: Analog Flight Simulations at NASA's Flight Research Center and it is #20 in the Monographs In Aerospace History series.
This book has an amazing amount of primary source material on the role that analog computers played in the development of the USA's most advanced aircraft and their early spacecraft up to and including the landing on the moon. There are numerous references to the early EAI computers, the Goodyear computers and even the REAC computers...all of which are on display in our collection at The Computer Church.
Documents
Documents for this item have not yet been scanned or not yet posted. There are a lot of pages...contact us if you have an immediate need. (Although there are not a lot of "immediate needs" for a 70+ year old computer!)
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(For comparison: Many people consider the Apple-1 computer to be rare. As of 2025 there are 92 confirmed and probable Apple-1 computers.)
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