Proceedings Eastern Joint Computer Conference (3 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Volume 20. Address label on front endpage. (Computers, Data Processing).

Condition: fair to good, fair to poor. Quarto, 380, illus., figures, tables, charts, references, foxing & discolor ins bds & flylves, foxing to fore-edge, DJ quite worn & foxed. Front DJ spotted and scuffed, several tears and creases to DJ, small piece missing rear DJ, several chips missing along DJ edges. Contains papers on "Project Mercury Real-Time Computational and Data-Flow System, " "Use of a Combined Analog-Digital System for Re-entry Vehicle Flight Simulation, " "Information Handling in the Defense Communications Control Complex, " and "An Automatic Digital Data Assembly System for Space Surveillance, " among other topics.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. UNIVAC. J. Presper Eckert, J.C. Chu, A.B. Tonik, and W.F. Schmitt, "Design of the UNIVAC-LARC System, Part I" pp 59-65; and H. Lukoff and L.M. Spandorfer and F.F. Lee, "Design of the UNIVAC-LARC System, Part II" pp 66-74; and John Cocke and H. Kolsky, "The Virtual Memory in the STRETCH Computer (pp 82-93). Erich Bloch, "The Engineering Design of the Stretch Computer"; Stanley Chao, "The System Organization of the MOBIDIC B" pp 101-107. AND: Rex Rice, "Computers of the Future", pp 4-14. ALL papers appearing in: Proceedings of the Eastern Joint Computer Conference, Boston, December 1-3 1959, National Joint Computer Conference, 1959, No. 16, 260pp. 11X8.5", flexible cloth wrappers, perfect spine. [++] FINE copy save for small rubber stamp of previous owner on the title page and an almost-invisible repair to the spine. Very nice copy of these problematic reports (the text tended to be too heavy for the binding if you didn't pay attention and give care to the binding). [++] The report by Eckert et al (in two parts) on the UNIVAC-LARC (Livermore Advanced Research Computer Livermore Advanced Research Computer) was the final report on that machine. The IBM STRECH [IBM 7030] computer was the fastest computer on the planet from 1961-1964. [++] "The IBM 7030 (STRETCH), introduced in 1960, represented multiple breakthroughs in computer technology. It was IBM s first supercomputer, ranking as the fastest in the world for three years after its debut. Rather than relying on bulky and often unreliable vacuum tubes, it used transistors. And its advanced random access disk drives provided unrivaled data storage and retrieval speed. The 7030 stretched the limits of computer design to such an extent that it soon became known by the nickname IBM had given it during its development Stretch."--IBM History/Stretch online. [++] "The UNIVAC LARC, short for the Livermore Advanced Research Computer, is a mainframe computer designed to a requirement published by Edward Teller in order to run hydrodynamic simulations for nuclear weapon design. It was one of the earliest supercomputers. LARC supported multiprocessing with two CPUs (called Computers) and an input/output (I/O) Processor (called the Processor). Two LARC machines were built, the first delivered to Livermore in June 1960, and the second to the Navy's David Taylor Model Basin. Both examples had only one Computer, so no multiprocessor LARCs were ever built."--Wikipedia on the LARC [++] Personal note on the MOBIDIC--a friend who worked on this machine said it was the only computer ever built that had gun racks. Since the computer was mobile and built for the Army, there was this requirement.