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EAI PACE TR-10 · Deep Dive · c. 1960

EAI PACE TR-10

EAI's solid-state desktop machine — twenty plug-in computing modules patched on their own front faces, reconstructed from a documentary record thin enough that the series says where it runs out.

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    1. Vol 1 EAI PACE TR-10 — Volume 1 — Overview & history What the machine is, where it sat in the market, and exactly how much of the record can be trusted — the ground for Volumes 2–7
    2. Vol 2 EAI PACE TR-10 — Volume 2 — System architecture The four console areas, the plug-in principle, bus-bar power, and the patch panel that is made of module faces — with the one architectural question the sources answer two different ways
    3. Vol 3 EAI PACE TR-10 — Volume 3 — The computing components Every module EAI catalogued for the machine, by type number, with its specified performance, its patch-panel face and its place in the row
    4. Vol 4 EAI PACE TR-10 — Volume 4 — Programming & scaling From a differential equation to a patched console: the method, amplitude scaling from first principles, and EAI's own two worked programs re-derived and checked
    5. Vol 5 EAI PACE TR-10 — Volume 5 — Time scaling & repetitive operation How integrator gain sets the machine's clock, what the factor β does, and how Accessory Group 2.246 runs a hundred seconds of problem in two hundred milliseconds
    6. Vol 6 EAI PACE TR-10 — Volume 6 — Specifications & the documentary record Specification GPAC-TR-10 PS 6305 clause by clause against the brochure, every divergence catalogued, and an honest list of what nobody here can source
    7. Vol 7 EAI PACE TR-10 — Volume 7 — Use, teaching and aftermath The five-step working method, who actually operated these machines, the EAI product line as it turned hybrid, and what survived the displacement by digital computation