alt.hn

5/6/2026 at 5:00:03 PM

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

https://www.righto.com/2024/02/the-first-microcomputer-transfluxor.html

by rsecora

5/10/2026 at 3:11:34 AM

Ken's blog is an amazing read!

by java-man

5/10/2026 at 9:28:42 AM

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".

by nxobject

5/10/2026 at 10:20:30 AM

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

by grishka

5/11/2026 at 10:54:28 AM

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

by lambdaone