1949 Giant Brains: SIMON 1st Personal Computer /IBM Harvard Mark 1 ENIAC Babbage For Sale

1949 Giant Brains: SIMON 1st Personal Computer /IBM Harvard Mark 1 ENIAC Babbage
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1949 Giant Brains: SIMON 1st Personal Computer /IBM Harvard Mark 1 ENIAC Babbage:
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Giant Brains - or, Machines That Think, 1st Ed.
by GENIAC Inventor Edmund C. Berkeley

First published at a time when enormous calculating machines like the ENIAC and Harvard Mark I were beginning to enter the public\'s consciousness, this groundbreaking master work fromGENIACinventor Edmund Berkeleyis a must-have for any serious student of computer history. Best known for his popularseries of articles in Radio-Electronics, this is thevery bookthat introduced \"Simon,\" what many consider to be theworld\'s first personal computer. Predating the Kenbak-1, Mark-8, and Altair 8800 by nearly a quarter century, the machine was programmed via paper tape and used a bank of relays to implement rudimentary decision-making logic. Berkeley devotes a full 20 pages to Simon\'s construction, programming, and operation.

But it doesn\'t end there: The bulk of this rare first edition takes an in-depth look at digital and analog computers of the day, both electronic and mechanical, as well as speculates on the future of computing in the decades to come.

Apart from a little cover wear, the book is in very good condition. Ex-library. Hardcover, 270 pages. Original copyright 1949.


Chapters include:

  • 1. Can Machines Think?
  • 2. Languages: Systems for Handling Information
  • 3. A Machine That Will Think: Simon, a Very Simple Mechanical Brain
  • 4. Counting Holes: Punch Card Calculating Machines
  • 5. Measuring: MIT\'s Differential Analyzer #2
  • 6. Accuracy to 23 Digits: IBM\'s ASCC (a.k.a. the Harvard Mark I)
  • 7. Speed - 5000 Additions a Second: Moore School\'s ENIAC
  • 8. Reliability - No Wrong Results: Bell Labs\' General-Purpose Relay Calculator
  • 9. Reasoning: The Kalin-Burkhart Logical-Truth Calculator
  • 10. An Excursion: The Future Design of Machines That Think
  • 11. The Future: Machines That Think, and What They Might Do For Men
  • 12. Social Control: Machines That Think, and How Society May Control Them
  • Supplement - Words & Ideas, Mathematics, References
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