Eckert, W. J. (1902-1971) & Jones, Rebecca (born 1905) Faster, Faster: A Simple Description of a Giant Electronic Calculator and the Problems it Solves NY 1955 B000L3D04O NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1955. 1st Trade Edition. [First published the same year by IBM.] vii+[1]+160pp. 45 text figures. 17 plates in the text. Printed green cloth with gilt lettering. Spine flecked, else a very good copy. Origins of Cyberspace #581: "A description of the NORC (Naval Ordnance Research Calculator), designed and built by IBM for the United States navy's Bureau of Ordnance." Eckert developed the first computing laboratory at Columbia University; in 1933 he persuaded Thomas Watson of the need to enlarge the laboratory. "The requirements laid down by Eckert for emendations of the standard IBM machines to make them more useful for scientific work forced the company to develop an attitude of flexibility toward scientific users of machines which was to have great consequences for the electronic computer developments both at the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute for Advanced Study, as well as for the company itself. Indeed, it may have been absolutely essential to its later success" [Goldstine p. 110]. 15.0 ounces = 427 grams. 9.4 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches = 23.5 x 15.5 x 1.5cm. Acceptable Price: USD 14.95 other currencies   order no. GACH069041    inquire

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