Published by Cambridge MA Harvard University Press, 1946
First Edition
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Add to basketFirst edition; 4to; 9 plates from photographs of which 8 are double-sided, pencilled editorial notes to chapter 1, light tanning from a loose partial sheet of equations inserted between pages 292 and 293, contents faintly toned; original blue cloth, title to spine gilt, cloth rubbed and marked with scattered loss of size, particularly along the spine, faint ring mark to the upper board, small worn areas at the extremities, very good condition; 561pp. First edition of the first computer...
Published by Addison-Wesley Press, Inc, Cambridge, MA, 1951
First Edition
Condition: Near fine. First printing. First edition of this early and important work in computer programming. PREPARATION contains programming instructions for the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator), an early British computer built by author Wilkes and colleagues at the University of Cambridge. Known as the first textbook on computer programming, and proportionately influential, THE PREPARATION OF PROGRAMS captures an early and defining moment in the history of computer programming. As scholar Michael R. Williams has written: "EDSAC holds...
Published by Addison-Wesley Press, Inc, Cambridge, MA, 1951
First Edition
Condition: Very good plus. First edition, important association copy of this early work in computer programming, owned and annotated by Mary Lee Woods, noted computer scientist and programmer (and mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee). This book contains programming instructions for the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator), an early British computer built by author Wilkes and colleagues at the University of Cambridge. Mary Lee Woods (later Berners-Lee), to whom this copy belonged, was a member of...
Published by (Dept. of the Navy), 1955
Seller: JF Ptak Science Books, Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. "Department of the Navy listing of Owned or Rented Automatic Computing Equipment." Printed by the Office of Naval Research ("Code 105"), Washington, DC, ca. 1954/5. There is no listing for this item in WorldCat/First Search; also no scent of it on google or other appropriate online memory vaults. That said, all this is is a list of computers--but the listing in itself is actually pretty interesting, and gives a good taste of available computing fire-power...