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From: ceg@edsdrd.UUCP (Carlos Galarce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Clippinger-modified ENIAC and June 48 Manchester Mark I (was: Info...)
Summary: Book on work that lead to the ENIAC
Message-ID: <984@edsdrd.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 88 14:30:28 GMT
References: <198@marque.mu.edu>
Organization: EDS Research, Troy, MI 48007-7019
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Arthur Burks (University of Michigan) and Alicia Burks have written
a book on work that lead to the ENIAC.
The First Electronic Computer: The Atanasoff Story
The University of Michigan Press
839 Greene Street
Ann Arbor, Mi 48106
(313) 764-4392
About $30.00
From a flier I picked up at a conference:
"... This special purpose digital machine not only proved the
feasibility of electronic computation, but also led
directly to the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic
computer, and through its successors to the computers of
today..."
"... In the First Electronic Computer, Alice and Arthur Burks
describe the genesis of Anatosoff's machine, placing in the
context of the technologies from which it grew and the
technology it launched..."
Even though I haven't read this particular book, I have read some
of Arthur Burks' papers on the subject and they are quite interesting.
They deal with patents, corporate maneuvering and litigation in US
Federal Court on the subject of the electronic computer invention.
I am sure that this book should give some insights into early work in
digital computers from a team that was there when things were
happening.
--
Carlos E. Galarce - Electronic Data Systems Research
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