Episode 186 - MADDIDA

In 1950 Northrup unveiled their MAgnetic Drum DIgital Differential Analyser. The machine is a wild piece of technology; a rendering of an analog computer in digital encoding. But how did we get here? How did a project to guide a missile lead to a mass produced computer? And what does it have to do with suspiciously dry martinis?
Selected Sources:
sci-hub.st/10.1109/MAHC.2003.1179869 - 2003 paper on MADDIDA
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