Rojas, Raúl (Editor)
Hashagen, Ulf (Editor)
MIT Press
Physical Details: xii + 457 pp., illus., bibl.
Language: English
Description Contents: Michael R. Williams, A Preview of Things to Come: Some Remarks on the First Generation of Computers; Michael S. Mahoney, The Structures of Computation; Robert W. Seidel, Reconstructions, Historical and Otherwise: The Challenge of High-Tech Tech Artifacts; Andreas Brennecke, A Classification Scheme for Program Controlled Calculators; Harry D. Huskey, Hardware Components and Computer Design; John Gustafson, Reconstruction of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer; I. Bernard Cohen, Howard Aiken and the Dawn of the Computer Age; Jan Van Der Spiegel, James F. Tau, Titiimaea F. Ala'ilima, Lin Ping Ang, The ENIAC: History, Operation, and Reconstruetion in VLSI; William Aspray, The Institute for Advanced Study Computer: A Case Study in the Application of Concepts from the History of Technology; Paul Ceruzzi, “Nothing New Since von Neumann”: A Historian Looks at Computer Architecture, 1945-1995; Friedrich W. Kistermann, The DEHOMAG D11 Tabulator - A Milestone in the History of Data Processing; Raül Rojas, The Architecture of Konrad Zuse's Early Computing Machines; Ambros P. Speiser, Konrad Zuse's Z4: Architecture, Programming, and Modifications at the ETH Zurich; Friedrich L. Bauer, The Plankalkül of Konrad Zuse - Revisited; Wilheim Hopmann, The GI and the Göttingen Family of Digital Computers; Hartmut Petzold, Konrad Zuse and Industrial Manufacturing of Electronic Computers in Germany; Thomas Lange, Helmut Hoelzer---Inventor of the Electronie Analog Computer; Anthony E. Sale, The Colossus of Bletchley Park - The German Cipher System; R. B. E. Napper, The Manchester Mark I Computers; Christopher P. Burton, Rebuilding the First Manchester Computer; Frank H. Sumner, The Atlas Computer; Martin Campbell-Kelly, Past into Present: The EDSIC Simulator; Seiichi Okoma, The First Japanese Computers and Their Software Simulators; Eiiti Wada, The Parametron Computer PCRI and Its Initial Input Routine.
Review Abbate, Janet (2002) Review of "The first computers: History and architectures". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences.
Review Neushul, Peter (2002) Review of "The first computers: History and architectures". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 240).
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