> From: [email protected] (Noel Chiappa)
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Odd book
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>
> 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.
….
> A very unusual and off-beat work.
>
> Noel
Noel,
Thanks for the book recommendation above. I was happy to see that it was
available in a reasonably priced Kindle version.
One of my favorite computer history books is Stan Augarten's 1984 book, Bit by
Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers.
I did manage to find a copy and really enjoyed reading it and looking at
the great photos in it. I was curious to know
a bit more about the author and in “DuckDuckGoing” him I ran across an online
college course by Haverford University:
http://ds-wordpress.haverford.edu/bitbybit/bit-by-bit-contents/front-matter/table-of-contents/
<http://ds-wordpress.haverford.edu/bitbybit/bit-by-bit-contents/front-matter/table-of-contents/>
that has the entire text and the photos from Stan Augarten’s book. It is a
great way to read an otherwise hard to find
book. It also has some .pdfs of the lecture slides from the professors who put
this great web site together.
Mark
