COMPUTERISED CONSTRUCTION
Each of the panels of circuitry in this photograph has more than 1000 terminal pins, hundreds of fine yellow wires, and hundreds of soldered connections. Every piece in it was made, fitted, and connected automatically. The panels are part of the new computer of the University of Canterbury now being installed at Ham. The installation engineer
(Mr G. Hayward) said he had seen the "fantastic operation of computerised construction.” Requirements for this computer were fed into another computer which analysed the circuits necessary, the shortest and most efficient wiring . routes, and the most effective combination of panels. The result was fed into an automated machine which cut • the base for the panel, fixed more than 1000 pins, laid the hundreds of wires in the proper routes, soldered these joints, and produced the completed “board” ready to be attached to matching panels of transistors at the rear. A computer then tested the assembly, pointed out any small errors, rejected the whole if necessary, or passed it as fully effective, said Mr Hayward.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31480, 21 September 1967, Page 14
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