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词条 General Automation
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{{Infobox company
| name = General Automation, Inc.
| logo = GeneralAutomation.svg
| type = Public
| foundation = 1968
| location = Anaheim, California
| key_people = Larry Goshorn, co-founder
| products = Minicomputers
}}

GA General Automation was an American company, founded in 1968 by Larry Goshorn (a former marketing executive and a salesman from Honeywell), which manufactured minicomputers and industrial controllers.

Products

  • GA SPC-12[1] (Jan 1968)
  • Priced at $6400 and claiming $4,000 worth of free options
  • Totally integrated, binary, parallel, single address processor
  • 4,096 words (8 bit bytes) of memory with a 2.2 microsecond cycle time
  • Shared command concept that permits the SPC-12s 8-bit memory to handle 12-bit instructions.
  • Features included a real-time clock, expandable memory to 16K, a teletype interface, a control panel and a priority interrupt
  • GA SPC-8 (Nov 1968)[2][3][4]
  • GA 18/30 (June 1968, IBM 1800 compatible)[5]
  • GA SPC-16/30, /50 & /70 (November 1971)[6]
  • GA SPC-16/40, /45, /65 & /85 (January 1972)[7]
  • LSI-12/16 (January 1974)[8]

These computers were initially produced with silicon on sapphire circuit technology[9] but yield problems caused a switch to conventional ICs by 1975.[10]

  • GA 16/110 & /120 (December 1976)[11]
  • GA 16/220
  • GA 16/330
  • GA 16/440
  • GA 16/460

References

1. ^Datamation, September 1968, p. 137
2. ^{{cite journal |title=Low Cost Computer Has 4K Memory |journal=Computerworld |date=25 Sep 1968 |volume=2 |issue=39 |page=7 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xdtOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lE4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3932%2C3357338}}
3. ^{{cite journal |title=Across the Editor's Desk - Computing and Data Processing Newsletter: SPC-8, A NEW GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER FROM GENERAL AUTOMATION, INC. |journal=Computers and Automation |date=Oct 1968 |page=60 |url=https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_computersA_9801715/page/n59?q=%22SPC-8%2C+A+NEW+GENERAL+PURPOSE+COMPUTER+FROM+GENERAL+AUTOMATION%22}}
4. ^{{cite book |title=SPC-8 general purpose computer |date=1968 |publisher=General Automation, Inc. |url=https://archive.org/stream/TNM_SPC-8_general_purpose_computer_-_General_Auto_20171108_0094#page/n1/mode/2up |language=english}}
5. ^Datamation, May 1969, p. 136
6. ^Datamation, November 15, 1971, p. 112
7. ^Datamation, January 1972, p. 5
8. ^Datamation, January 1974, p. 105
9. ^Datamation, January 1974, p. 105
10. ^Datamation, January 1975, p. 18
11. ^*{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-2ZtoSPs5IEC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=general+automation+GA+16/110&source=bl&ots=raQTomWgnE&sig=ACfU3U1nHS4jZzAEW8TCtq-fWV0a77t85w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj899vNjIDhAhWzCTQIHY3yCUcQ6AEwCXoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=general%20automation%20GA%2016%2F110&f=false |title=Mini Maker Offering Micro |date=December 6, 1976 |access-date=March 7, 2019}}

External links

  • Computer History Museum
  • Documents at Bitsavers
  • 18/30 Fortran IV Software Data Sheet

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