Automatic Digital Computers, First Edition (8 results)

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Dampstained. (computers, electronic digital computers ).

Condition: New. . 2017. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

[1967], 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 198pp. Tables, diagrams, index. Previous owner's name, minor edgewear and chipping to dust jacket. "A concise, single volume that distinguishes between model, method of solution and simulation- using actual military systems as a source of problems and models". Publisher series: Series in Automatic Computation. (Applied Science, Computer Science).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 17 Pp. Including Inside Rear Cover. First Printing, Fine. Welcome To The Beginnings Of Computer Warfare Of Wealth Against The Rest Of Humanity. As We Keep Telling You, It's For Your Own Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is a fine hardcover first edition second printing copy in a gray cloth binding, no DJ. A lovely copy, looks unread. By the great computer designer who invented microprogramming, macros and subroutine libraries and so much more. 305 pages with index. Photos on request.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; 8 plates from photographs, folding diagram, illustrations within the text, bookplate of W. Barkley Fritz, portion of jacket with blurb stapled to the front free endpaper, some associated tape residue, contents faintly toned; original buff cloth, titles to spine gilt, spine rolledand faded with some loss of the gilt titles, cloth rubbed along the edges with small worn spots, very good condition; 305pp. First edition of an important early book on computing, scarcer than the US edition published later in the same year. This copy from the library of W. Barkley Fritz, a computing specialist who began his career working with ENIAC at the Ballistics Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, before joining Westinghouse and the computer science department at the University of Delaware. With his bookplate and a small number of pencilled notes. Author Maurice Wilkes (1913-2010) was one of the leading figures in British computing from the 1930s onward. Trained as a mathematician and physicist, he was one of the first staff members, and later served as director, of Cambridge's Mathematical Laboratory, which 'played a critical role in the development of the electronic digital computer'. Wilkes 'directed the design and construction of EDSAC, the first readily usable, full-scale, stored-program computer' and 'was responsible for a number of programming innovations, such as labels, macros, and microprogramming' (Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 1013). Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 1040.

Stiff Boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Stiff Boards. Two early and important surveys of automatic digital computers running in the US, at a time when one could list, with relative ease, every significant piece of hardware running. The first, issued in 1952 was, 'A Symposium on Commercially Available General-Purpose Electronic Digital Computers of Moderate Price', edited by Mina Ress. She writes: "Until recently, all commercially available general-purpose digital computers were large and cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Within the past year, however, a number of manufacturers have smaller, more compact (usually slower) automatic computers for sale at less than one hundred thousand dollars." [Introduction] Hart notes that the first survey of large scale computers was undertaken between 1947-48 and updated in 1950. However, "a large number of machines that were then only in the design stage are now in successful operation." [Preface] Includes: ? A Survey of Automatic Digital Computers. Washington, DC, 1953. The theory, design principles and fields of usefulness of the various forms of automatic controllers commonly used in the process industry, are discussed. Some of the computer techniques in the field of instrumentation and control engineering are described. [OOC 944] ? [Rees, Mina] Office of Naval Research, A Symposium on Commercially Available General-Purpose Electronic Digital Computers of Moderate Price. [OOC 853]. Exlibris (UC Engineering Library) with discrete markings reflecting such, rebound in stiff library boards, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Heavy stiff pale green boards, cloth tape spine. 8vo. 41; 109pp.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Typed stapled course outline. Rare early unpublished document. 55pp. w1th diagrams & illustrations. (Copy not in store.).