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This volume describes several different models of IBM computer systems, characterized by different data representations and instruction sets that strongly influenced computer system architecture in the 1950s and early 1960s. They focused on a common system architecture that allowed peripherals to be...

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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, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
Subjects:
IBM computers.
IBM computers > History.
Computers > History.
IBM (Ordinateurs)
IBM (Ordinateurs) > Histoire.
Ordinateurs > Histoire.
Information technology: general issues.
Computer hardware.
Mainframes & minicomputers.
COMPUTERS > Computer Literacy.
COMPUTERS > Computer Science.
COMPUTERS > Data Processing.
COMPUTERS > Hardware > General.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
COMPUTERS > Machine Theory.
COMPUTERS > Reference.
Computers
IBM computers
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:This volume describes several different models of IBM computer systems, characterized by different data representations and instruction sets that strongly influenced computer system architecture in the 1950s and early 1960s. They focused on a common system architecture that allowed peripherals to be used on different systems, albeit with specific adapters. These systems were modular, which made them easy to manufacture, configure, and service. Computing with UNIVAC, they used reliable Williams Tubes for memory, and later introduced magnetic core memory. IBM developed its own magnetic tape driv.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 208 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781527522633
1527522636

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