Computers -- Their Operation and Applications.
Reinhold Publishing Corp NY 1956, first edition (no other printings noted); 366 pages, Index, diagrams, Refs, Gloss.
Condition: Good green cloth hardcover with title in gilt, blocked in black, on spine, no dustjacket; shelfwear to all edges, private library numerals on lower spine; rubberstamp of corporate/aeronautical institution on endpages. Binding is sound but hinges weak; pages clean, unmarked.
Categories: 1950's computers and computing, Computers and Society, General Histories and References, Hardware, Highspots in the History of Computing, Programming and Programming Languages, General Programming, Philosophy of Programming
See all items by Edmund Callis Berkeley, Lawrence Wainwright
Price: $25.00
Item Description
'Covering -- digital, analog and other types of automatic computers; Miniature computers; Present and future applications in business, industry and government'For historical purposes, valuable reference because it contains a 'convenient checklist of computer characteristics; a listing of books, periodicals, papers & organizations offering further information on all aspects of automatic computing machinery; names & addresses of organizations from whom automatic computing equipment may be bought or rented; a large glossary of terms and expressions used in the automatic computing field' (all circa 1959).
'Section III of the book dealing with analog machines, & Section VII-5 dealing with military applications of computers, are the work of Wainwright; the rest of the book is the work of Berkeley' (from the Preface)
CONTENTS -- Machines that Handle Information -- Computers; Types of Automatic Computers; Automatic Digital Computing Machines -- The Automatic Digital Computer; Storing Information & the Memory Unit; Calculating & the Arithmetic Unit; Programming & he Control Unit; Input & output units; Reliability - checking & maintenance; Advantages & Disadvantages of an automatic digital computer; A checklist of characteristics of an Automatic digital Computer; Automatic Analog Computing Machines -- the Analog Principle & its use; Essential elements; A Simple Computer; Analog & Digital Computers Compared; Examples of analog computer units; Examples of Analog Computers; Functional considerations; error control; System & supply considerations; Future prospects; Other Types of Automatic Computing Machines -- types that are not digital or analog computers; Components of Automatic Computing Machines;
Miniature Computers & their use in Training -- Simon - its history & main features; Simon - numbers, operations & programming; How Simon is Constructed; Some Large-Scale Automatic digital computers - Univac; IBM Types 701, 702, 705 & 704; ERA Type 1103;
Applications of Automatic Computing Machines -- whose work can automatic computers do; what people may buy automatic computers; The attitudes of prospective buyers toward automatic computing machines; Appications of automatic computing machines in business; Military applications; Applications of automatic computing machines in other fields; Recognizing areas where automatic computing machines may apply;
References -- books and other sources of information; Roster of Organizations making automatic computing machines; Roster of automatic computing services; Glossary of terms and expressions; Index.