Details about IBM's early 'scientific' computers

[Pete Lancashire]

What are you looking for ?

Have you checked bitsavers

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7090/

and the subdirectory

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7090/ce/

for the 7094 there is even more detail

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7094/ce/

-pete



On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> So, I was trying to find info about the early IBM 709/7090/7094 computers,
> but
> when I went to what is supposedly the authoritative work on these computers
> (among others):
>
>   Charles J. Bashe, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, Emerson W. Pugh,
>     "IBM's Early Computers", MIT Press, Cambridge, 1986
>
> I discovered there was very little technical detail about these machines
> there.
>
> Is there any other printed thing (yes, I know a few Web pages have some
> content) that anyone knows of that covers them in more detail? (I have a
> 709/7090/7094 programming thing coming, but that won't cover the internal
> engineering.)
>
> Yes, I know, I could look at the engineering manuals, but I was hoping for
> something in between them and Bashe et al.
>
>           Noel
>
>