Exercise Analogue Computer, Fenyves & Gut, circa 1970

From a Fenyves & Gut sales brochure kindly provided by Emanuele Isnardi.

“We supply an economical analogue computer with permanent wiring for the automatic computation of parameters if immediate interest to the physician (MVBTPS, VO2STPD, VCO2STPD, RQ, respiratory equivalent RE, VO2/PR, f, caloric production). This computer which may be acquired in three stages processes all data provided by the S and G assemblies according to the exact formulae reduced to the usual gas conditions and taking into account atmospheric pressures and the time-lag between sensing ventilatory activity and the determination of gas exchange values.

Data output by printer and/or 12 channel point plotter.”

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