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Putting pulses to work
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inch at each contacting area. Following their punched tape instructions, the spindles then pick up the supply wire from the spool and move to the next electrical connection where the process is repeated. Machine wiring eliminates the need for preparing, storing and handling many short pieces of wire. The M-4 can be used in conjunction with plastic panels, all alike, on which are mounted different groups of electrical parts such as electron tubes, or transistors, resistors, and capacitors. The terminals of the parts protrude through holes in the panels spaced at regular (modular) intervals. It can be visualized that when suitable apparatus and equipment designs are ready for manufacture several machines developed along the lines of the M-4 might be used at once, all receiving instructions from a common "brain." The machine is a distant cousin of textile industry machines which handle and interconnect thousands of threads more delicate than wire. "Putting Pulses to Work."--A complete line of magnetic cores and new pulse control equipment was introduced by Burroughs Corporation, Electronic Instruments Division, at the Instrument Society of America Exhibit, September 12-16, in Los Angeles. The theme of the exhibit was "Putting Pulses to Work." The new tape-wound magnetic cores
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have been precision engineered and manufactured to remove the element of non-uniformity that has characterized the early development of these wonder electronic components. The tiny switching and control elements which have a promising future as large scale replacements for vacuum tubes and other electronic components many times their size, shared the spotlight in Burroughs' booth with recent advances in the company's line of unitized pulse control equipment--a system of basic-function electronic building blocks that can be rapidly interconnected into a wide variety of pulse test and control networks. New pulse control equipment to be shown for the first time at the ISA exhibit includes: 1. A versatile pulse pattern generator--a compact, portable bench rack containing five standard pulse control panels plus power supply. It provides a low-cost, fully integrated test system capable of generating a wide variety of complex pulse patterns. 2. New twin flip-flop--an addition to Burroughs line of building-block pulse panels. This unit mounts two flip-flop circuits on a single 19-in. panel, provides twice the switching capacity in a given space. 3. A new power supply--a compact, low-cost unit, that provides an economical power source for small pulse systems containing up to five unitized pulse control panels. It is used in the new pulse pattern generator.
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inch at each contacting area. Following their punched tape instructions, the spindles then pick up the supply wire from the spool and move to the next electrical connection where the process is repeated. Machine wiring eliminates the need for preparing, storing and handling many short pieces of wire. The M-4 can be used in conjunction with plastic panels, all alike, on which are mounted different groups of electrical parts such as electron tubes, or transistors, resistors, and capacitors. The terminals of the parts protrude through holes in the panels spaced at regular (modular) intervals. It can be visualized that when suitable apparatus and equipment designs are ready for manufacture several machines developed along the lines of the M-4 might be used at once, all receiving instructions from a common "brain." The machine is a distant cousin of textile industry machines which handle and interconnect thousands of threads more delicate than wire. "Putting Pulses to Work."--A complete line of magnetic cores and new pulse control equipment was introduced by Burroughs Corporation, Electronic Instruments Division, at the Instrument Society of America Exhibit, September 12-16, in Los Angeles. The theme of the exhibit was "Putting Pulses to Work." The new tape-wound magnetic cores
[J. F. I.
have been precision engineered and manufactured to remove the element of non-uniformity that has characterized the early development of these wonder electronic components. The tiny switching and control elements which have a promising future as large scale replacements for vacuum tubes and other electronic components many times their size, shared the spotlight in Burroughs' booth with recent advances in the company's line of unitized pulse control equipment--a system of basic-function electronic building blocks that can be rapidly interconnected into a wide variety of pulse test and control networks. New pulse control equipment to be shown for the first time at the ISA exhibit includes: 1. A versatile pulse pattern generator--a compact, portable bench rack containing five standard pulse control panels plus power supply. It provides a low-cost, fully integrated test system capable of generating a wide variety of complex pulse patterns. 2. New twin flip-flop--an addition to Burroughs line of building-block pulse panels. This unit mounts two flip-flop circuits on a single 19-in. panel, provides twice the switching capacity in a given space. 3. A new power supply--a compact, low-cost unit, that provides an economical power source for small pulse systems containing up to five unitized pulse control panels. It is used in the new pulse pattern generator.