Abstract
This chapter discusses Antonin Svoboda's experiences as a computer scientist in Czechoslovakia. An anti-aircraft gun control system within the Czechoslovakian Ministry of National Defense was designed. A calculating punch was designed in Prague that used an algorithmic trick to make division go fast. SAPO was a fault-tolerant computer and was followed by EPOS, which also was a fault tolerant and was multiprogramming and time sharing. It had two CPUs and scratchpad and data-masking. One kind of work that was done with SAPO was tracing of skew rays for photographic lenses. There was a pipeline processor for three-dimensional Fourier synthesis used for crystal structures with up to 40 atoms in the molecule.
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