N.V. Electrologica was a pioneering

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manufacturer from 1956 to 1968, when it was taken over by

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. It was started by

A. van Wijngaarden A is the first letter of the Latin and English alphabet. A may also refer to: Science and technology Quantities and units * ''a'', a measure for the attraction between particles in the Van der Waals equation * ''A'' value, a measure of s ...

B.J. Loopstra Bram Jan Loopstra (1925 – 1979) was a Dutch computing pioneer who worked at the Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam and then at Electrologica with Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Carel S. Scholten and Gerrit Blaauw Gerrit Anne "Gerry" Blaauw (17 July ...

and

C.S. Scholten Carel S. Scholten (Amsterdam, 1925 – 2009) was a physicist and a pioneer of computing. He went to the Vossius Gymnasium in Amsterdam and then studied physics from 1945 to 1952 at the University of Amsterdam. In 1947 he was asked by the Dutch ...

from the

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(Mathematical centre) in

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, when that organisation decided to spin off and commercialise its work on computers. The most successful computers produced by Electrologica were the

Electrologica X1 The Electrologica X1 was a digital computer designed and manufactured in the Netherlands from 1958 to 1965. About thirty were produced and sold in the Netherlands and abroad. The X1 was designed by the Mathematical Centre in Amsterdam, an acade ...

and the Electrologica X8. Other stripped-down versions of the X8, the X2 to X5, were less successful. The Stichting Electrologica (“Electrologica Foundation”) is an organisation dedicated to preserving and spreading the history of computing in the Netherlands.

References

External links

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''Tales of Electrologica''
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