J Cray (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: good. This book is in good condition, with minimal signs of wear and tear.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:9781854242709. …

Six panel brochure, illus., 3.75x8.5 inches. Hit piece on Wallace, attacking (for good reason) his record in Alabama and alleging a blonde traveling companion.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 35 pp., bibliography. Contents: Bibliography of Kentucky folklore for 1966 / Clarke; Discography: 1966 / Wilgus; Traditional aspects of the one-roomed school, I / Wilson; New wine in old bottles, II / Stuart; The eyes of Texas on flying saucers / Tanner & McCullen; Reviews. …

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Red wrappers. 95-188pp. Spine lightly tanned and cocked, corners bumped, near fine. Articles, notes and queries, and book reviews by Leonard W. Moss, Stephen C. Cappannari, Merle L. Simmons, Robert Stevenson, Morris E. Opler, Macedward Leach, Ed Cray, Tristram P. Coffin, Americo Paredes, S.J. Sackett, Walter E. Boyer, Leonard Roberts, Howard Mumford Jones, Daniel G. Hoffman, Bela Gunda, Morton Y. Jacobs, Claude M. Simpson, Norman Cazden, Morton H. Levine, Arthur Freeman, Richard M. Dorson, Wolf Leslau, Gertrude P. Kurath, Marshall W. Stearns, Charles O. Frake, David Bidney, Bacil F. Kirtley, Carmen Cook de Leonard, and J. David Sapir. …

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First edition of this important book on the first successful supercomputer. An unusually attractive copy in the dust-jacket. The CDC 6600 was the world's most powerful computer between 1964 and 1969, and was immensely successful, selling more than 100 units. Many were designated for nuclear weapons and physics research at institutions such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and CERN, and others were obtained by university computer science laboratories. The machine's abilities surpassed those of the IBM 7030, leading its president Thomas Watson to write a now-famous memo stating that, 'I fail to understand why we have lost our industry leadership position by letting someone offer the world's most powerful computer'. Gordon Moore published 'Moore's Law' just a year after production began, and the CDC 6600 became the benchmark for the concept. First edition, first printing; 8vo; diagrams and illustrations within the text, faint number written in green pencil on title, otherwise contents fresh; original brown cloth, titles to spine and upper board in gilt and black, yellow endpapers printed with data tables, an excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with faded spine panel; 181pp.…