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"Birthing the Computer: From Relays to Vacuum Tubes" is the first in a multi-volume series on historical computing machines. This series will span the development of computer systems from the Zuse machines of the early 1930s to about 1995 when microprocessors began to be commoditized. Each...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kaisler, Stephen H. (Stephen Hendrick) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2016]
Subjects:
Computers > History.
Ordinateurs > Histoire.
Humanities.
COMPUTERS > Computer Literacy.
COMPUTERS > Computer Science.
COMPUTERS > Data Processing.
COMPUTERS > Hardware > General.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
COMPUTERS > Machine Theory.
COMPUTERS > Reference.
Computers
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Precursor machines ; Konrad Zuse's computers
  • The Atanasoff-Berry computer
  • Stibitz's relay computers
  • Colossus
  • Aiken's ASCC/Mark I
  • Harvard Mark machines
  • IBM's selected sequence electronic calculator
  • Who invented the computer?
  • Part II. Pre-stored program machines ; ENIAC
  • EDVAC
  • EDSAC
  • Manchester SSEM
  • BINAC
  • Pilot ACE
  • BRLESC
  • Part III. Vacuum tube machines ; Engineering Research Associates
  • UNIVAC 1103
  • NBS computing machines
  • MIT whirlwind
  • The IAS machine
  • MANIAC I
  • The ORDVAC computer
  • UNIVAC I
  • English Electric DEUCE
  • Ferranti Pegasus
  • Ferranti Mark I/II
  • Ferranti Mercury
  • Univac file computers
  • IBM 305 RAMAC.

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