TOMPKINS, C.B. [ed.]; Engineering Research Associates, Inc.

High-Speed Computing Devices.

Name: High-Speed Computing Devices.
Brand: TOMPKINS, C.B. [ed.]; Engineering Research Associates, Inc.
SKU: 122468
Price: 340.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Stock Code 122468

New York, McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., 1950.

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the first computer building handbook

First edition of 'the first treatise on how to build an electronic digital computer' (Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 584). An attractive copy.

High-Speed Computing Devices was prepared under the supervision of Charles Brown Tompkins, vice president for research at Engineering Research Associates. Founded in 1946 by ex-Navy personnel, ERA manufactured both commercial computers and secret military equipment, and this book had its origins in a report to the Office of Naval Research. The text 'provided a "cookbook" describing the available ingredients and how they worked for both digital and analog computers. Because it explained the principles involved and gave examples, it was extremely useful'.

First edition; 8vo; diagrams throughout, contents fresh; original blue cloth, titles to spine in gilt, cloth a little rubbed with some tiny marks, an excellent copy; 451pp.

Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 584.

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