Anatran: first step in breeding the "diginalog"

A planned and controlled integration of digital and analog computers could be effected by industry if the final general purpose "diginalog" were produced in steps commensurate with the developing state of the art. The first step, described herein, is the development of an analog symbolic language and digital compiler such that the engineer can write his problems in quasi-mathematical and familiar language which the digital computer can then translate into a digital input function generation, a set of calculated pot settings, and a complete analog flow diagram. Subsequent steps in developing the diginalog are also described.