Hybrid computer

Hybrid computer WAT 1001

As a hybrid computers historical are computer systems referred to a combination of elements of analog and digital computers use and combine the advantages of both technologies. Towards the end of the 1960s, they were increasingly developed and used in the technical-scientific sector. The most important components of this electronics are analog-to-digital converters and their counterparts, digital-to-analog converters .

The digital computer is mainly used for computing tasks that the analog computer can hardly map on its own:

multi-dimensional maps
complex logic tasks or control of processes
automatic search of optimal parameters

Areas of application:

Boundary and eigenvalue problems
Simulation and optimization of complex dynamic systems
Other mathematical relationships that can only be solved numerically (i.e. digitally) with difficulty or selectively

The Dornier 960 is the last hybrid computer.

Web links

System Description EAI-8800 Scientific Computing System. (PDF; 2.62 MB) Electronic Associates, Inc. (EAI), May 1, 1965, accessed September 5, 2019 .
Dornier 960 manual (PDF; 21.5 MB)
Dornier 960 (English)

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↑ Bernd Ulmann: Analog and Hybrid Computing. (PDF; 2.9 MB) May 1, 2006, accessed on September 17, 2019 (English).
↑ Dornier 960 simulation system - system description. (PDF; 2.1 MB) In: Dornier System GmbH. Retrieved September 17, 2019 (digital computer based on intel 8080 (from 1974)).

[1] Bernd Ulmann: Analog and Hybrid Computing. (PDF; 2.9 MB) May 1, 2006, accessed on September 17, 2019 (English).

[2] Dornier 960 simulation system - system description. (PDF; 2.1 MB) In: Dornier System GmbH. Retrieved September 17, 2019 (digital computer based on intel 8080 (from 1974)).