8 May
2020
8 May
'20
8:35 p.m.
On 5/6/2020 10:29 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
So, I've come across an odd book that might
interest some here: "Achieving
Accuray: A Legacy of Computers and Missiles", by Marshall William McMurray.
The first couple of chapters merely re-tell the story of earliest computers
(pre-elecronic and electronic), up through the IBM 701, Elliott 401, NCR 304,
SAGE, CDC 6600, IBM 7090, etc. Competent, but nothing special. Then it
gets interesting, though.
Chapter 4 is "Small Magnetic Drum Computers of the 1950s", and it covers a
bunch of machines I'd never heard of: JAINCOMP B-1 (!), MONROBOT III (!!),
CADAC 101, 102 (!!!) and on and on.
I have the paper tape reader off of a Monrobot, IIRC. Not sure which
generation.
JRJ