Computing History References

Computing History References

Books on the History of Computing in the
UBC Computer Science Reading Room

Title	Author	Year	Publisher	Call
Period Books:
Faster Than Thought A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines	Edited by B.V. Bowden	1953	Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., London	QA 76 B68
Programming the IBM 650 ...	Andree	1958	?	QA76.5 A55
Books about the history of computing:
The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann	Herman H. Goldstine	1972	Princeton University Press	QA76 G648
The Origins of Digital Computers - Selected Papers (from Babbage to Wilkes)	Edited by Brian Randall	1973	Springer-Verlag	TK 7888.3 R36
Early British Computers	Simon Lavington	1980	Digital Press, DEC	QA76 L395
Project Whirlwind The History of a Pioneer Computer	Kent C. Redmond and Thomas M. Smith	1980	Digital Press, DEC	TK 7889 W47 R43
From ENIAC to UNIVAC An Appraisal of the Eckert-Mauchly Computers	Nancy Stern	1981	Digital Press, DEC	QA 76.5 S775
The First Electronic Computer - The Atanasoff Story	Alice R. Burks and Arthur W. Burks	1988	University of Michigan Press	QA76.5 B825
IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems		1991	?	QA 76.8 I12 P84
Other Books:
The Computer and the Brain	von Neumann	1958	?	QA 76 V6
Computer Power and Human Reason From Judgement to Calculation	Joseph Weizenbaum	1976	?	QA 76 W44

Papers

Title	Author	Year	Comment
Computing System for the Solution of Large Systems of Linear Equations	John V. Atanasoff	1940	in Origins/Randall
(ENIAC)	Burks?	194?	in Origins/Randall
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC	John Von Neumann	1945	in ENIAC to UNIVAC/Stern; on web
Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument	A. W. Burks, H. H. Goldstine, John Von Neumann	1946?	in Origins/Randall
(SSEM)	Kilburn?	1948?	in Origins/Randall
(EDSAC)	Wilkes	1948?	in Origins/Randall

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing: Miscellaneous Articles

Vol/Num	Date	Topic Year	Topic
V15/N1	JanMar 1993	1940s	The Computer as Von Neumann Planned It. (NR)
V19/N1	JanMar 1987	1930/40s	Crossing the Divide (30/40s --> stored program).
V20/N3	JulSep 1998	1948	SSEM description. "Early Programs on the Manchester Mark 1 Prototype"
V21/N1	JanMar 2000	1950	Table of machines circa 1950.
V20/N4	OctNov 1998	1953	Eckerts 1953 article on memory technologies.
V22/N1	JanMar 2000	~ 1954	pg 29, recollections of J. W. Birkenstock, somewhat ambiguous ref to Watson Jr, ordering all 700 series machines to be 'retrofitted' with transistors.
V20/N3	JulSep 1998	1954	Sperry Rand's transistor computers. Bell Labs TRADIC, built for Air Force in 1954, first transistor computer. IBM first transistor usage: pg 61, recollections of J.C. Logue, example transistorized version of 604 by 1954 (2200 transistors).
V19/N3	JulSep 1997	~ 1969	Intel 4004. Long article about development between Japan and U.S. regarding Busicom/Intel and calculators. Mentions early adoption of MOS by Japanese companies.
V21/N1	JanMar 1999		History of Computing Curriculum with lists of suggested topics, technologies, etc.
V19/N1	JanMar 1987		V20/N4? Synthesis in Software Engineering: long article on software/language devel. history.
V21/N2	AprJun 1999		"Calculators" column. "Short contributions regarding the development, manufacture and use of calculators." e.swartzlander@computer.org
V19/N2	AprJun 1997	late 1930s	Z3 description
V20/N2	AprJun 1998	1950s-...	Beginnings of AI in biography of Newell by Simon
V3/N2	AprJun 1981	1946-51	Pilot ACE
V15/N1	JanMar 1993	1946	"The Computer as von Neumann Planned It", modern interp. of the FDR-EDVAC

Misc./Notes

Stored-program concept, IEEE Spectrum, Sep 1990, pg 51
FSP: AoHoC 20/3 JulSep 98, pg8
Manchester Mark 1: Early British... pg38-39
LSI Development: Electronics World, Dec 1969, V82 N6

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