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Calculating Instruments and Machines.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. “The first comprehensive exposition of electronic digital computing.” [OOC 652]
“These lectures were intended for a well-informed scientific audience outside the tiny group of professionals then involved with electronic computing. They represented the first comprehensive exposition of electronic digital computing, and this book was one of the first two treatises on the subject. The other book, Edmund Berkeley’s Giant Brains or Machines That Think was written for a more popular audience and achieved greater sales. . . . Chapter 8, entitled ‘Projects and prospects,’ contains the first generally available comprehensive account of the stored-program machines then in development, including EDVAC, ACE, and EDSAC.” [OOC 652]. Fine in Near Fine DJ. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, one small closed tear, else bright and clean. Orange cloth boards, black ink lettering. 8vo. 138pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Item #11065
Price: $750.00