The Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND COMPLETE SET. PLACE OF PUBLICATION: ENGLAND & SAN FRANSICO.
PUBLISHER: MIT PRESS & TOMASH DEPENDING ON THE PUBLICATION DATE. PUBLICATION DATE: 1982 - 1992. 1 THE PREPARATION OF PROGRAMS FOR AN ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER. 2 BABBAGES CALCULATING ENGINES: A COLLECTION OF PAPERS (1889). 3 HANDBOOK OF THE NAPIERS TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION, OR MODERN INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS OF CALCULATION.
5 PUNCHED CARD METHODS IN SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION. 6 CALCULATING MACHINES: RECENT AND PROSPECTIVE DEVELOPMENTS AND THEIR IMPACT ON. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS & CALCULATING INSTRUMENTS AND MACHINES. 7 PROCEEDINGS OF A SYMPOSIUM ON LARGE-SCALE DIGITAL CALCULATING MACHINERY. 8 A MANUAL OF OPERATION FOR THE AUTOMATIC SEQUENCE CONTROLLED CALCULATOR. 9 THE MOORE SCHOOL LECTURES. TURINGS ACE REPORT OF 1946 AND OTHER PAPERS. 12 PAPERS OF JOHN VON NEUMANN ON COMPUTING AND COMPUTER THEORY.13 MEMOIR OF THE LIFE AND LABOURS OF THE LATE CHARLES BABBAGE, ESQ. 14 THE EARLY BRITISH COMPUTER CONFERENCES.
16 THE CALCULATING MACHINES (DIE RECHENMASCHINEN): THEIR HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT. BINDING: HARD COVER SOME WITH MYLAR DUST JACKETS, ONE DUST JACKET IS ILLUSTRATED PAPER.
BOOK CONDITION: VERY GOOD, THE ALL COVERS AND PAGES ARE IN TACT. THE BOOKS HAVE THE OWNERS NAME INSIDE EITHER ON A STICKER OR WRITTEN. COMMENTS: THE OWNER OF THESE BOOKS.
Bromley IS ONE OF THE EDITORS OF THIS SERIES OF BOOKS. PROVENANCE: THESE BOOKS ARE PART OF THE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF THE LATE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ALLAN G. BROMLEY, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY. HE WAS REGARDED AS THE WORLD AUTHORITY ON CHARLES BABBAGE'S CALCULATING ENGINES INSTIGATING THE BUILDING OF THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE NO.2 AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM LONDON AND THE ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM AND HAD EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF CALCULATORS, ANALOGUE COMPUTERS, LOGIC, STEREOPSIS, TOTALISATORS, CLOCKS AND TIME KEEPING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. THERE ARE THREE BOXES OF BOOKS AND THE COMBINED WEIGHT WITH PACKAGING WOULD BE ABOUT 20 KILOS.
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