Fall Joint Computer Conference 1964 , AFIPS Conference Proceedings volume 26 part I.
Spartan Books, MD 1964, first edition; 745 pages, 9x12, photos, diagrams, index of authors.
Condition: Very Good overall, blue cloth hardcover with titles in silver, in Good+ dustjacket & clear protective dustjacket cover; jacket worn & chipped at top edges & corners. Binding is sound, pages are clean & unmarked though a bit musty & stale-smelling.
Keywords: IBM, AFIPS, memory, hybrid computation, analog, digital, simulation, NASA, JPL, graphics, hardware
Categories: 1960's computers and computing, Databooks, Handbooks, Manuals, IBM, Hardware
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Price: $65.00
Item Description
Sections include PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES & SYSTEMS; EXPANSION OF FUNCTION MEMORIES; NEW COMPUTER ORGANIZATIONS; MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS OF SIMULATION;DIGITAL SOFTWARE FOR ANALOG COMPUTATION; INPUT & OUTPUT OF GRAPHICS; MASS MEMORY;
TIME-SHARING SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONS IN SPACE PROGRAMS; HYBRID/ANALOG COMPUTATION - METHODS & TECHNIQUES;
NON-NUMERICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING; HYBRID/ANALOG COMPUTATION - APPLICATIONS & HARDWARE; HARDWARE DESIGNS & DESIGN TECHNIQUES
Papers include CPSS a common programming support system (Boreta); Error Correction in CORC (Freeman); Compilation of natural language text into teaching machine programs (Uhr); XPOP meta-language (Halpern); A 10Mc NDRO BIAX Memory of 1024 word, 48 bit per word capacity (Pyle);
Associative memory system implemenation & characteristics; Magnetic thin film memory; high speed ferrite memory system design & operation; associative processor; hardware integrated general purpose computer search memory; A bit-access computer in a communication system; Very high-speed & Serial-parallel computers HITAC 5020 & 5020E; IBM System 360 Engineering; Use of a portable analog computer for process identification, calculation & control; Progress of Hybrid computation at United Aircraft Research Laboratories; A Strobed Analog Data Digitizer with Paper Tape Output;
The Time-Sharing Monitor System; JOSS a designer's view of an experimental on-line computing system; The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ephemeris Tape System; JPTRAJ the new JPL Trajectory Monitor; Saturn V Launch Vehicle digital computer & data adaptor; 4102-S Space Track program; UNISIM simulation program for communications networks; HYTRAN software system to aid analog programmer;
PACTOLUS digital analog simulator program for the IBM 1620; MIDAS how it works; RAND Tablet - a man-machine communications device (M R Davis); system for automatic recognition of handwritten words; Image Processing hardware for man-machine graphical communication system (Hargreaves); IBM Hypertape System; Random Access Memories, more. Includes separate 8-page Errata sheet laid-in loosely, Errata AFIPS volume 26, part I, with corrections for that volume's papers.