Edited Stifler (3 results)
Published by McGraw-Hill, New York 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Sekkes Consultants, North Dighton, U.S.A.Sekkes Consultants
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: very good. First edition. This is the definitive modern sourcebook on the technologies from which the computer industry sprang. Widely read, it gave impetus to technical developments both in the United States and abroad. It presents a clear, organized picture of computing concepts, techniques, machinery, an…d components in use as of 1950, with emphasis on electronic high-speed computing. The material is elaborately referenced and contains a multitude of diagrams and tables. One particularly significant table lists all the computers of the era-including the famous EDVAC, UNIVAC, BINAC, and Mark III-with their specifications. This first compendium of United States computer technology was created by a research team that grew out of the U.S. Navy's wartime cryptologic establishment. Owner name with 1957 date on title page, shallow crease to first few pages, slight rubbing to the edges. First edition. 6¼" - 9½". book.
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Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, U.S.A.ThriftBooksVintage
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards show signs of wear. All pages intact, binding is sound. Clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
More imagesHigh Speed Computing Devices
The Staff of Engineering Research Associates, Inc.; Supervised by C. B. Tompkins and J. H. Wakelin; Edited by W. W. Stifler, Jr.
Published by McGraw-Hill 1950
- Hardcover
Seller: Nighttown Books, Powell, U.S.A.Nighttown Books
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Gilt-stamped heavy black cloth boards, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, slight shelf wear & slight quiet scuffing front panel, from collection of UCLA mathematician Nathaniel Grossman with his neat name to endpaper, else Fine copy of this landmark early title in the hist…ory of computing; 8vo; (xi) 451pp indexed.
