I want one! I want one!
While verifying the old use of analog computers as 'spreadsheets' for
previous item, I bumped into
this ad for a MAGNIFICENT device.

I've never seen one of these in real life or in print before. A graph-definer module for analog systems. Set the graph, and get a custom X to Y function. Undoubtedly wildly expensive when new, and totally unobtainable now.
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