high speed computing devices von staff engineering research associates supervised (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: very good. First edition. This is the definitive modern sourcebook on the technologies from which the computer industry sprang. Widely read, it gave impetus to technical developments both in the United States and abroad. It presents a clear, organized picture of computing concepts, techniques, machinery, and components in use as of 1950, with emphasis on electronic high-speed computing. The material is elaborately referenced and contains a multitude of diagrams and tables. One particularly significant table lists all the computers of the era-including the famous EDVAC, UNIVAC, BINAC, and Mark III-with their specifications. This first compendium of United States computer technology was created by a research team that grew out of the U.S. Navy's wartime cryptologic establishment. Owner name with 1957 date on title page, shallow crease to first few pages, slight rubbing to the edges. First edition. 6¼" - 9½". book.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Gilt-stamped heavy black cloth boards, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, slight shelf wear & slight quiet scuffing front panel, from collection of UCLA mathematician Nathaniel Grossman with his neat name to endpaper, else Fine copy of this landmark early title in the history of computing; 8vo; (xi) 451pp indexed.