Oral history interview with Antonin Svoboda, 1979 Nov. 15.

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Oral history interview with Antonin Svoboda, 1979 Nov. 15.

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Svoboda describes his research on computing in Czechoslovakia, France, and the United States. He begins by discussing his early career: his electrical engineering education in Prague, the differential analyzer he built for the French during World War II for fire control, and his work in New York for the ABAX Corporation on Bofort anti-aircraft guns. He explains how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology became interested in his work on linkage computers for aiming guns automatically and describes the two part linkage computer system he built, the OMAR and the Mark 56.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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