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A Manual of operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator / by the staff of the Computation Laboratory ; with a new foreword by I. Bernard Cohen and a new introduction by Paul Ceruzzi.
LIBRA QA75 .M348 1985
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Charles Babbage Institute reprint series for the history of computing ; v. 8.
- Charles Babbage Institute reprint series for the history of computing ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mark I (Calculator).
- Computers--History.
- Computers.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 561 pages, xvii pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ; Los Angeles : Tomash Publishers, 1985.
- Summary:
- If the Mark I itself was a milestone in digital computing, so was this Manual: it was one of the first publications to address the fundamental question of how to get a computer to solve problems.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1946. (Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University ; v. 1)
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 338-396.
- ISBN:
- 0262010844
- OCLC:
- 11550583
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