I saw a hardcover book from 1957 at the used
bookstore, that discussed
digital computer circuits, and had chapters on vacuum tube logic circuits,
corememory circuits, some transistor circuits, etc. If this is something
that someone here is dieing to have, perhaps because you're designing
a vacuum tube computer circuit, just let me know and i'll try to get it
before someone else does ;)
In fact, my plan is to build a tube computer someday soon. What was the
title of the book, and how much was it selling for?
Well, several people have asked about this book. Its "Digital Computer
components & circuits" by R. K. Richards, 1957, reprinted 1958. He says
its a companion book to his "arithmetic Operations in Digital Computers",
which the bookstore also has, but thats just a general boolean-logic type
of book.
Anyways, the used bookstore wants $15 for it. Perhaps I should see about
photocopying this.
chapters:
1 History & Introduction
2 Diode switching circuits
3 Vacuum tube systems of circuit logic
4 Transistor systems of circuit logic
5 magnetic core systems of circuit logic
6 Large capacity storage: non-magnetic devices
7 Storage on a magnetic surface
8 Magnetic core storage
9 Circuits and tubes for decimal counting
10 Miscellaneous components and circuits
11 Analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters
-Lawrence LeMay