Chapter 10. More Information About This Machine Is in the Following

references:

ECKERT, W. J., Electrons and Computation, The Scientific Monthly, vol. 67, no. 5, Nov. 1948, pp. 315-323.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, IBM Selective-Sequence Electronic Calculator, New York: International Business Machines Corporation (form no. 52-3927-0), 1948, 16 pp.

The Raytheon Computer

The Raytheon Computer is a machine under construction at the Raytheon Manufacturing Co., Waltham, Mass.

BLOCH, R. M., R. V. D. CAMPBELL, and M. ELLIS, The Logical Design of the Raytheon Computer, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 3, no. 24, Oct. 1948, pp. 286-295.

BLOCH, R. M., R. V. D. CAMPBELL, and M. ELLIS, General Design Considerations for the Raytheon Computer, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 3, no. 24, Oct. 1948, pp. 317-323.

A “System of Electric Remote-Control Accounting”

During the 1930’s a system using connected punch-card machinery was experimented with in a department store in Pittsburgh. The purpose of the system was automatic accounting and analysis of sales. This system is described in:

WOODRUFF, L. F., A System of Electric Remote-Control Accounting, Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, vol. 57, Feb. 1938, pp. 78-87.

The Univac

The Univac is a machine under construction at the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, Philadelphia. A similar but smaller digital computer called the Binac is also being developed.

ECKERT-MAUCHLY COMPUTER CORPORATION, The Univac System, Philadelphia: Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp., 1948, 8 pp.

ELECTRONIC CONTROL CO. (now ECKERT-MAUCHLY COMPUTER CORP.), A Tentative Instruction Code for a Statistical Edvac, Philadelphia: Electronic Control Co. (now Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp.), May 7, 1947, 19 pp.

SNYDER, FRANCES E., and HUBERT M. LIVINGSTON, Coding of a Laplace Boundary Value Problem for the UNIVAC, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 3, no. 25, Jan. 1949, pp. 341-350.

The Zuse Computer

The Zuse Computer is a small digital computer constructed in Germany.

LYNDON, ROGER C., The Zuse Computer, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 2, no. 20, Oct. 1947, pp. 355-359.

THE DESIGN OF DIGITAL MACHINES

Following are a number of references on various aspects of the design of digital computing machines:

Organization

BURKS, ARTHUR W., Super-Electronic Computing Machine, Electronic Industries, vol. 5, no. 7, July 1946, p. 62.

BURKS, ARTHUR W., HERMAN H. GOLDSTINE and JOHN VON NEUMANN, Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument, Princeton, N. J.: Institute for Advanced Study, 2nd edition, Sept. 1947, 42 pp.

ECKERT, J. PRESPER, JR., JOHN W. MAUCHLY, and J. R. WEINER, An Octal System Automatic Computer, Electrical Engineering, vol. 68, no. 4, Apr. 1949, p. 335.

FORRESTER, JAY W., WARREN S. LOUD, ROBERT R. EVERETT, and DAVID R. BROWN, Lectures by Project Whirlwind Staff on Electronic Digital Computation, Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Servo-mechanisms Laboratory, Mar. and Apr. 1947, 149 pp.

LUBKIN, SAMUEL, Decimal Point Location in Computing Machines, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 3, no. 21, Jan. 1948, pp. 44-50.

PATTERSON, GEORGE W., editor, and others, Theory and Techniques for Design of Electronic Digital Computers (subtitle: Lectures Given at the Moore School 8 July 1946-31 August 1946), Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania, Moore School of Electrical Engineering, vol. 1, lectures 1-10, Sept. 10, 1947, 161 pp.; vol. 2, lectures 11-21, Nov. 1, 1947, 173 pp.; vol. 3 and 4 in preparation.

STIBITZ, GEORGE R., Relay Computers, Applied Mathematics Panel Report 171.1R, Washington, D. C.: National Defense Research Council, Feb. 1945, 83 pp.

STIBITZ, GEORGE R., Should Automatic Computers be Large or Small? Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 2, no. 20, Oct. 1947, pp. 362-364.

STIBITZ, GEORGE R., The Organization of Large-Scale Calculating Machinery, Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948, pp. 91-100.

STIBITZ, GEORGE R., A New Class of Computing Aids, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 3, no. 23, July 1948, pp. 217-221.

Input and Output Devices

ALEXANDER, SAMUEL N., Input and Output Devices for Electronic Digital Calculating Machinery, Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948, pp. 248-253.

FULLER, HARRISON W., The Numeroscope, Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948, pp. 238-247.

O’NEAL, R. D., Photographic Methods for Handling Input and Output Data, Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948, pp. 260-266.

TYLER, ARTHUR W., Optical and Photographic Storage Techniques, Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948, pp. 146-150.

ZWORYKIN, V. K., L. E. FLORY, and W. S. PIKE, Letter-Reading Machine, Electronics, vol. 22, no. 6, June 1949, pp. 80-86.

ANONYMOUS, Letter-Printing Cathode-Ray Tube, Electronics, vol. 22, no. 6, June 1949, pp. 160-162.

Storage Devices

BRILLOUIN, LEON N., Electromagnetic Delay Lines, Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948, pp. 110-124.

FORRESTER, JAY W., High-Speed Electrostatic Storage, Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948, pp. 125-129.

HAEFF, ANDREW V., The Memory Tube and its Application to Electronic Computation, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 3, no. 24, Oct. 1948, pp. 281-286.

KORNEI, OTTO, Survey of Magnetic Recording, Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948, pp. 223-237.

MOORE, BENJAMIN L., Magnetic and Phosphor Coated Discs, Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948, pp. 130-132.

RAJCHMAN, JAN A., The Selectron—A Tube for Selective Electrostatic Storage, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 2, no. 20, Oct. 1947, pp. 359-361 and frontispiece.

SHARPLESS, T. KITE, Mercury Delay Lines as a Memory Unit, Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948, pp. 103-109.

SHEPPARD, C. BRADFORD, Transfer Between External and Internal Memory, Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948, pp. 267-273.

Programming or Coding

EVERETT, ROBERT R., Digital Computing Machine Logic (memorandum M-63), Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Servo-mechanisms Laboratory, Mar. 19, 1947, 48 pp.

GOLDSTINE, HERMAN H., and JOHN VON NEUMANN, Planning and Coding of Problems for an Electronic Computing Instrument, Princeton, N. J.: Institute for Advanced Study, 1947, 69 pp.

GOLDSTINE, HERMAN H., and JOHN VON NEUMANN, Planning and Coding of Problems for an Electronic Computing Instrument, Princeton, N. J.: Institute for Advanced Study,