The Origins of Digital Computers

by Brian Randekk and Brian Randell

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387113193
• ISBN13: 9780387113197
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 580 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

The definitive source material for computer history

There are a bunch of books about the history of computing, but this one is unique -- it reprints original papers from Babbage through EDVAC and EDSAC in the late 1940s. Some of the papers are a tough slog, since the terminology is unfamiliar, but there's no better way to get inside the heads of the people who invented all this stuff. And what's really amazing is that by 1948, they were designing recognizably modern computers. If it weren't so overpriced I'd say every programmer should have a copy.