
Birthing the Computer
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Part I
- Chapter One
- 1.1 The Z1
- 1.2 The Z2
- 1.3 The Z3
- 1.3.1 Z3 Architecture
- 1.3.2 Memory
- 1.3.3 Floating Point Registers
- 1.3.4 Input and Output
- 1.3.5 Instruction Execution
- 1.3.6 Instruction Set
- 1.3.7 Programming the Z3
- 1.3.8 Z3 Assessment
- 1.4 The Z4
- 1.4.1 ETH and the Z4
- 1.4.2 The Z5
- 1.5 Plankalkul
- 1.6 The Z11
- 1.7 The Z22
- 1.8 The Z23
- 1.9 The Z31
- 1.10 Assessment of Zuse's Computing Machines
- Chapter Two
- 2.1 ABC System Architecture
- 2.2 The Atanasoff-Mauchly Conflict
- 2.3 The ABC Reconstructed
- 2.4 ABC Assessment
- Chapter Three
- 3.1 Model I: The Complex Numerical Calculator
- 3.2 Model II: The Relay Interpolator
- 3.3 Model III: The Ballistic Computer
- 3.4 Model IV: The Error Detector Mark II
- 3.5 Model V
- 3.6 Model VI
- 3.7 Later BTL Machines
- 3.8 Assessment of Stibitz's Relay Computers
- Chapter Four
- 4.1 Rebuilding Colossus
- 4.2 Colossus Architecture
- 4.3 Colossus and Code Breaking
- 4.4 Assessment of Colossus
- Chapter Five
- 5.1 ASCC System Architecture
- 5.1.1 Automatic Sequence Unit
- 5.1.2 Arithmetic Calculations
- 5.1.3 Interpolators
- 5.1.4 Special Registers
- 5.2 I/O System
- 5.3 Programming the ASCC
- 5.4 ASCC Assessment
- Chapter Six
- 6.1 Mark II
- 6.2 Mark III
- 6.3 Mark IV
- 6.4 Mark Machines Assessment
- Chapter Seven
- 7.1 SSEC System Architecture
- 7.1.1 Electronic Storage Units
- 7.1.2 Relay Storage
- 7.1.3 Tape Storage
- 7.1.4 Dial Storage
- 7.1.5 Pluggable Storage
- 7.1.6 Program Tapes
- 7.2 SSEC Reliability
- 7.3 SSEC Assessment
- Chapter Eight
- Further Reading
- Exercises for the Reader
- Part II
- Chapter Nine
- 9.1 ENIAC System Architecture
- 9.1.1 Accumulators
- 9.1.2 Control Units
- 9.1.3 Master Programmer
- 9.1.4 Arithmetic Units
- 9.1.5 Constant Transmitter
- 9.1.6 Function Table
- 9.1.7 Input/Output Units
- 9.2 Later Modifications
- 9.3 Applying ENIAC
- 9.4 The ENIAC Women
- 9.5 Myths and Stories about ENIAC
- 9.6 Assessment of ENIAC
- Chapter Ten
- 10.1 The Von Neumann Report
- 10.2 The Patent Dispute
- 10.3 The "Real" EDVAC
- 10.4 EDVAC Architecture
- 10.4.1 System Architecture
- 10.4.2 Memory System
- 10.4.3 I/O System
- 10.4.4 The EDVAC Console
- 10.4.5 Debugging Support
- 10.5 EDVAC Instruction Set
- 10.6 Physical Challenges
- 10.7 EDVAC Implementation
- 10.8 EDVAC Software
- 10.9 EDVAC Applications
- 10.9.1 EDVAC Operation
- 10.10 EDVAC Assessment
- Chapter Eleven
- 11.1 EDSAC System Architecture
- 11.2 The EDSAC Order Code
- 11.3 Programming the EDSAC
- 11.3.1 Subroutine Libraries
- 11.3.2 The Travails of Paper Tape
- 11.3.3 An EDSAC Simulator
- 11.4 EDSAC Firsts
- 11.5 EDSAC 2
- 11.6 EDSAC Assessment
- Chapter Twelve
- 12.1 The SSEM Architecture
- 12.2 Assessment of the SSEM
- Chapter Thirteen
- 13.1 System Architecture
- 13.2 Instruction Set
- 13.3 BINAC Assessment
- Chapter Fourteen
- 14.1 Pilot ACE System Architecture
- 14.2 Programming the Pilot ACE
- 14.3 Pilot ACE Assessment
- 14.4 The ACE
- Chapter Fifteen
- 15.1 BRLESC I
- 15.2 BRLESC II
- 15.3 BRLESC Assessment
- Further Reading
- Exercises for the Reader
- Part III
- Chapter Sixteen
- 16.1 ERA 1101 Architecture
- 16.1.1 System Architecture
- 16.1.2 I/O Systems
- 16.1.3 UNIVAC 1101 Instruction Set
- 16.1.4 The Atlas II
- 16.2 UNIVAC 1102
- 16.3 Dissonance at Remington Rand
- 16.4 Assessment of the UNIVAC 1101
- Chapter Seventeen
- 17.1 UNIVAC 1103 System Architecture
- 17.1.1 Control Components
- 17.1.2 Arithmetic Registers
- 17.1.3 Master Clock
- 17.2 Storage
- 17.3 Arithmetic
- 17.4 Instruction Format
- 17.4.1 Transmissive Instructions
- 17.4.2 Replace Instructions
- 17.4.3 Split Instructions
- 17.4.4 Q-Controlled Instructions
- 17.4.5 Sequenced Instructions
- 17.4.6 One-Way Conditional Jump Instructions
- 17.4.7 Two-Way Conditional Jump Instructions
- 17.4.8 One-Way Unconditional Jump Instructions
- 17.4.9 External Equipment Instructions
- 17.4.10 Stop Instructions
- 17.5 I/O Systems
- 17.5.1 I/O Registers
- 17.5.2 Program Interrupts
- 17.6 UNIVAC 1103A
- 17.7 UNIVAC 1104
- 17.8 Assessment of the Early UNIVAC 11xx Machines
- Chapter Eighteen
- 18.1 SEAC
- 18.1.1 SEAC System Architecture
- 18.1.2 Applications
- 18.2 SWAC
- 18.2.1 System Architecture
- 18.2.2 Instruction Set
- 18.2.3 Software
- 18.3 DYSEAC
- 18.4 NBS Computer Assessment
- Chapter Nineteen
- 19.1 Whirlwind System Architecture
- 19.1.1 Arithmetic Unit
- 19.1.2 Registers
- 19.1.3 Magnetic Core Memory
- 19.1.4 Auxiliary Storage
- 19.1.5 I/O System
- 19.2 Whirlwind Instruction Set
- 19.3 Sample Whirlwind Program
- 19.4 Whirlwind Assessment
- Chapter Twenty
- 20.1 IAS System Architecture
- 20.2 IAS Orders
- 20.3 Assessment of the IAS
- Chapter Twenty-One
- 21.1 MANIAC System Architecture
- 21.2 MANIAC Instruction Set
- 21.3 Programming the MANIAC
- 21.4 MANIAC II
- 21.4.1 MANIAC II System Architecture
- 21.4.2 Demand Paging
- 21.4.3 Peripherals
- 21.5 Chess Playing
- 21.6 MANIAC III
- 21.6.1 MANIAC III System Architecture
- 21.6.2 MANIAC III Instruction Set
- 21.7 MANIAC Assessment
- Chapter Twenty-Two
- 22.1 ORDVAC System Architecture
- 22.1.1 Arithmetic and Control Units
- 22.1.2 Memory
- 22.1.3 I/O Devices
- 22.2 Error Checking the ORDVAC
- 22.3 ORDVAC Instruction Set
- 22.4 Assessment of ORDVAC
- Chapter Twenty-Three
- 23.1 UNIVAC I at Lawrence Livermore
- 23.2 Early UNIVAC Orders
- 23.3 UNIVAC I at the Census Bureau
- 23.4 UNIVAC I Architecture
- 23.4.1 UNIVAC I Memory
- 23.4.2 UNIVAC I I/O
- 23.5 UNIVAC I Instruction Set
- 23.6 UNIVAC I and Programming
- 23.7 Remington Rand's Problems
- 23.8 UNIVAC II
- 23.9 UNIVAC III
- 23.10 UNIVAC I-III Assessment
- Chapter Twenty-Four
- 24.1 Basic Architecture
- 24.2 Hardware Configuration
- 24.3 The Control
- 24.4 Instruction Highway
- 24.5 Main Memory
- 24.6 The Magnetic Store
- 24.7 I/O Devices
- 24.8 Instruction Set
- 24.9 UTECOM
- 24.10 EASICODE
- 24.11 Assessment of the DEUCE
- Chapter Twenty-Five
- 25.1 Pegasus Configuration
- 25.1.1 Control Unit
- 25.1.2 The Main Store
- 25.1.3 The Computing Store
- 25.1.4 Control Panel
- 25.1.5 I/O System
- 25.2 Pegasus Instruction Set
- 25.3 Pegasus I at the British Science Museum
- 25.4 Pegasus Assessment
- Chapter Twenty-Six
- 26.1 Ferranti Mark I
- 26.2 Mark I Architecture
- 26.3 Mark I Instruction Set
- 26.3.1 Arithmetic and Logical Orders
- 26.3.2 B-Line Manipulation Orders
- 26.3.3 Control Transfer Orders
- 26.3.4 Peripheral and Miscellaneous Orders
- 26.4 Programming the Ferranti Mark I
- 26.5 Assessment of the Mark I
- Chapter Twenty-Seven
- 27.1 System Architecture
- 27.2 Instruction Set
- 27.3 Mercury Autocode
- 27.4 Mercury Installations
- 27.5 Assessment of the Ferranti Machines
- Chapter Twenty-Eight
- 28.1 The File 0 Machine
- 28.2 The File 1/ File 2 Machines
- 28.3 Arithmetic and Control Unit
- 28.4 I/O Systems
- 28.4.1 I/O Storage
- 28.4.2 Buffer Storage
- 28.4.3 High-Speed Storage
- 28.4.4 Large Capacity Drum
- 28.5 File Computer Operations
- 28.6 File Computer Assessment
- Chapter Twenty-Nine
- 29.1 RAMAC Origins
- 29.2 IBM 305 System Architecture
- 29.2.1 Processing Unit and Main Memory
- 29.2.2 Input Card Reader
- 29.2.3 Output Printer and Punch
- 29.2.4 System Console
- 29.3 Instruction Format
- 29.3.1 Accumulators
- 29.4 Controlling the IBM 305
- 29.5 IBM 350 Disk File
- 29.6 IBM 305 Assessment
- Further Reading
- Exercises for the Reader
- Glossary
- References
- Index
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