The first computers history and architectures

This history of computing focuses not on chronology (what came first and who deserves credit for it) but on the actual architectures of the first machines that made electronic computing a practical reality. The book covers computers built in the United States, Germany, England, and Japan. It makes c...

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Other Authors Rojas, Raúl, 1955-, Hashagen, Ulf
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
SeriesHistory of computing.
Subjects
Computers > History.
Computer architecture > History.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessPlný text

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Table of Contents:
  • A preview of things to come : some remarks on the first generation of computers / Michael R. Williams
  • The structures of computation / Michael S. Mahoney
  • Reconstructions, historical and otherwise : the challenge of high-tech artifacts / Robert W. Seidel
  • A classification scheme for program controlled calculators / Andreas Brennecke
  • Hardware components and computer design / Harry D. Huskey
  • Reconstruction of the Atanasoff-Berry computer / John Gustafson
  • Howard Aiken and the dawn of the computer age / I. Bernard Cohen
  • The ENIAC : history, operation, and reconstruction in VLSI / Jan Van der Spiegel [and others]
  • The Institute for Advanced Study computer : a case study in the application of concepts from the history of technology / William Aspray
  • "Nothing new since von Neumann" : a historian looks at computer architecture, 1945-1995 / Paul Ceruzzi
  • The DEHOMAG D11 tabulator : a milestone in the history of data processing / Friedrich W. Kistermann
  • The architecture of Konrad Zuse's early computing machines / Raâul Rojas
  • Konrad Zuse's Z4 : architecture, programming, and modificatios at the ETH Zurich / Ambros P. Speiser
  • The plankalkčul of Konrad Zuse revisited / Friedrich L. Bauer
  • The G1 and the Gčottingen family of digital computers / Wilhelm Hopmann
  • Konrad Zuse and industrial manufacturing of electronic computers in Germany / Hartmut Petzold
  • Helmut Hoelzer : inventor of the electronic analog computer / Thomas Lange
  • The colossus of Bletchley Park : the German cipher system / Anthony E. Sale
  • The Manchester Mark 1 computers / R.B.E. Napper
  • Rebuilding the first Manchester computer / Christopher P. Burton
  • The Atlas computer / Frank H. Sumner
  • Past into present : the EDSAC simulator / Martin Campbell-Kelly
  • The first Japanese computers and their software simulators / Seichi Okoma
  • The parametron computer PC-1 and its initial input routine / Eiiti Wada.

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