Keith, Ron J.

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Electrical engineer

Ron J. Keith worked for Weapons Research Establishment. During the 1950s he was involved in designing a special machine to predict impact positions of missiles while in flight. The design of this machine, the ATROPOS (or DIP), was a transistorised version of the TREAC, provided with a special built-in square root operation which was needed to achieve the very high execution speed to predict at a rate of 5 times per second.

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Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P003677. [ Details ]

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