DIGITAL COMPUTER Components & Circuits
Published by D. Van Nostrand Company Inc. (c. 1957), Princeton, NJ, 1957
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.Alkahest Books
AbeBooks seller since April 26, 2001
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 225.00
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Octavo, aquamarine-colored cloth covers with titles in black on top cover, silver titles on a black field on the spine. vii [1] 511 pages. Includes black and white diagrams, schematics, index. some foxing on front and rear endpapers. Browning on copyright and facing page, probably due to a newspaper clipping, now removed. Slight musty odor. Dust jacket has light wear, foxing on the inside and flap edges. "R.K. Richards (1921-2010) was a pioneer in the history of computing. An electrical engineer and physicist, he was granted 28 patents for his designs of vacuum-tube-based business computers for IBM in the '50's. A graduate of Iowa State University, he was the central witness in the patent dispute as to whether ENIAC or the Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the first digital electronic device. (Like ABC's inventor Atanasoff, Richards was associated with Iowa State.) This book discusses diode switching circuits, circuit logic systems, magnetic core systems, non-magnetic storage, circuits and tubes for decimal counting, and analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters." 040414B.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- DIGITAL COMPUTER Components & Circuits
- Author
- Richards, R. K.
- Publisher
- D. Van Nostrand Company Inc. (c. 1957), Princeton, NJ
- Publication year
- 1957
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- good +
- Binding
- hardcover
- Edition
- first edition.
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- Computers
Alkahest Books
Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.
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