Crossing the divide: Architectural issues and the emergence of the stored program computer, 1935-1955

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-12

  Ceruzzi, Paul ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}  

^a Aerospace Electronics and Computing   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d Institute for the History of Science   (Germany)

^e National Air and Space Museum   (United States)

^f CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRON TUBES; HISTORY; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PUNCH CARD SYSTEMS;

ABERDEEN RELAY CALCULATOR; AUTOMATIC SEQUENCE CONTROL; CARD PROGRAMMED CALCULATOR; ELECTRONIC COUNTING CIRCUITS; ELECTRONIC SPEEDS; STORED PROGRAM COMPUTER;

COMPUTERS;

EID: 0030783929     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/85.560724     Document Type: Article

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