The Minispace is an analog electronic calculator based on 10 operational amplifiers produced by the British company Solartron in 1958. Analog calculators are electronic devices, born around the 1930s. Their purpose is to solve physical systems and understand their behavior as the physical quantities of the system vary. Thanks to the data they produced, it was possible to simulate such physical systems with the appropriate proportions. Analog calculators are composed of electrical circuits equipped with adders, multipliers and integrators, a waveform generator applied to the input, and an output oscilloscope, which allows to display and measure the results.
They were mainly used for educational purposes and in the field of industrial automation.
Specifically, the Minispace is able to solve a differential equation up to the fifth order, a system of two differential equations up to the third order, and multiple systems with feedback (feedback loop).
Analogic calculators are composed by electronic circuits equipped with adders, multipliers and integrators, by a waveform generator applied to the entrance and an oscilloscope applied to the exit, which allows to measure the results.
These were mostly used for didattic purposes and for industrial automation.
Specifically, the Minispace is able to solve a differential equation up to the fifth order, a system of two differential equations up to the third order and multiple systems with feedback (feedback loop).
