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Volume 1, Issue 2
1 February 1974
Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application Cover Image for Volume 1, Issue 2
Review Article| February 01 1974

The Role of the Minicomputer in Production Robot Control Available to Purchase

M.H.E. Larcombe
M.H.E. Larcombe
Dept. Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5791
Print ISSN: 0143-991X
© MCB UP Limited
1974
Industrial Robot (1974) 1 (2): 54–55.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004445

There is increasing economic attractiveness of the minicomputer in control applications. In order to reap the full benefit of modern computer technology the currently used control systems require modification. The minicomputer should not be seen as a plug in replacement for drum or peg board programming.

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