High Speed Computing Devices by Tompkins C B (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. The book is a strange condition - the page edges are singed and the end pages are a little sooty around the edges. Book does not have a smell. Text is unmarked; pages are otherwise bright. Previous owner's signature in pen inside the front cover. Binding is sturdy. Covers show a little wear at the corners and the spine is slightly darkened. No dust jacket. 451pp.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Facsimile Edition. 8vo, Paperback, reprint ed. "This is an authorized Facsimile of the original book, and was produced in 1975 by microfilm-xerography by xerox university mircrofilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A." This book is in good condition with slight bumping to edges/shelf wear. Some foxing to page edges. Blue spine/no text. Size: 8vo. Paperback.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover in black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Sixth printing of the first edition, with "VI" on coyright page. A fine, bright, tight copy. No jacket. 451 pp. with index. Illustrated with diagrams. A cornerstone title in the early histroy of modern computing. From the preface: "This volume is primarily a discussion of the mechanical devices and electrical circuits which can be incorporated into computing machines.we have included descriptions of a few computers, to provide examples of the integration of thechniques and components into complete systems.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ||A Great Classic--the First True Textbook on Computing|| Tompkins,  C.B.  High-Speed Computing Devices.  New York:  McGraw Hill,  1950.  1st edition, 6th printing. 8vo.  Cloth. A near-Very Good copy of a significant book. __+__ This is simply the best and the first of the pre-1960 textbooks on the computer, enhanced by a (very) unusually complete series of chapter-ending references and bibliographies. Among much else of interest we find a treatment of the Harvard Mark I and II on pp 183-187 in the chapter on "Large-Scale Digital Computing Systems" on pp 182-222 with bibliography occupying pp 218-222. Also, the "Punched-Card Computing Systems" chapter pp 146-181 has a very nice bibliography on pp 166-181.[++] This is considered to be the first textbook on digital computers, the first compendium in English on digital computer technology, and a pioneering work that influenced many computer designers during the 1950s. It provides an unsurpassed picture of the state of the art during the late 1940s, and is further enhanced by the inclusion of several excellent bibliographies. -- Sarrazin F2. (714,3)__+__ "The book is a careful analysis of the electronic field as of 1950 and was in very large measure written by the late Professor C. B. Tompkins." - Goldstine 315.__+__  It was written to satisfy "a perceived need, following the end of WW II, for compendium of technologies applicable to the emerging field of electronic digital computers. Because published technical information was scarce in the U.S., there can be little question that the book was an important contribution to computer literature with its state of the art picture of the period 1947 through 1949, establishes a well-documented baseline for tracking and evaluating subsequent technological progress." Arnold Cohen, from the Introduction to the 1983 Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series Edition of the ERA Report, published by Tomash Publishing. ERA $75.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards show signs of wear. All pages intact, binding is sound. Clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Gilt-stamped heavy black cloth boards, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, slight shelf wear & slight quiet scuffing front panel, from collection of UCLA mathematician Nathaniel Grossman with his neat name to endpaper, else Fine copy of this landmark early title in the history of computing; 8vo; (xi) 451pp indexed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ||A Great Classic--the First True Textbook on Computing|| Tompkins,  C.B.  High-Speed Computing Devices.  New York:  McGraw Hill,  1950.  1st edition, 4th printing. 8vo.  Cloth.   A solid Very Good copy of a significant book. The former/first owner's name and address and some homework assignments are penned on the front pastedown. __+__ This is simply the best and the first of the pre-1960 textbooks on the computer, enhanced by a (very) unusually complete series of chapter-ending references and bibliographies. Among much else of interest we find a treatment of the Harvard Mark I and II on pp 183-187 in the chapter on "Large-Scale Digital Computing Systems" on pp 182-222 with bibliography occupying pp 218-222. Also, the "Punched-Card Computing Systems" chapter pp 146-181 has a very nice bibliography on pp 166-181.[++] This is considered to be the first textbook on digital computers, the first compendium in English on digital computer technology, and a pioneering work that influenced many computer designers during the 1950s. It provides an unsurpassed picture of the state of the art during the late 1940s, and is further enhanced by the inclusion of several excellent bibliographies. -- Sarrazin F2. (714,3)__+__ "The book is a careful analysis of the electronic field as of 1950 and was in very large measure written by the late Professor C. B. Tompkins." - Goldstine 315.__+__  It was written to satisfy "a perceived need, following the end of WW II, for compendium of technologies applicable to the emerging field of electronic digital computers. Because published technical information was scarce in the U.S., there can be little question that the book was an important contribution to computer literature with its state of the art picture of the period 1947 through 1949, establishes a well-documented baseline for tracking and evaluating subsequent technological progress." Arnold Cohen, from the Introduction to the 1983 Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series Edition of the ERA Report, published by Tomash Publishing. ERA $75.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine in Fair dust jacket. First Edition, Fourth Printing. 23.5 x 16 cm. xi 451pp. Diagrams, index. Dark blue cloth in price-clipped dust jacket. Fourth printing of the first edition with roman numeral "IV" on coypright page. Jacket is worn and has several large pieces out. Name on front free endpaper. Binding is tight. Uncommon in jacket. Considered to be the first textbook on digital computing and a window into the state of computing in the late 1940s. Each section has thorough bibliographies covering mostly American computing literature. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [COMPUTER] A Great Classic--the First True Textbook on Computing!__+__   Tompkins,  C.B.  High-Speed Computing Devices.  New York:  McGraw Hill,  1950.  1st edition, 5th printing.  8vo.  Cloth.   A fine and outstanding copy of a significant book in a good copy of its very scarce dustjacket. The dj has the usual nicks and chips but also has the usual fading on the spine as well.__+__ This is simply the best and the first of the pre-1960 textbooks on the computer, complete with stouts bibliographies and lots of bits to trail  from the golden age of computers. This classic work is enhanced by a (very) unusually complete series of chapter-ending references and bibliographies. Among much else of interest we find a treatment of the Harvard Mark I and II on pp 183-187 in the chapter on "Large-Scale Digital Computing Systems" on pp 182-222 with bibliography occupying pp 218-222. Also, the "Punched-Card Computing Systems" chapter pp 146-181 has a very nice bibliography on pp 166-181. __+__ This is considered to be the first textbook on digital computers, the first compendium in English on digital computer technology, and a pioneering work that influenced many computer designers during the 1950s. It provides an unsurpassed picture of the state of the art during the late 1940s, and is further enhanced by the inclusion of several excellent bibliographies. -- Sarrazin F2.__+__ "The book is a careful analysis of the electronic field as of 1950 and was in very large measure written by the late Professor C. B. Tompkins." - Goldstine 315.__+__  It was written to satisfy "a perceived need, following the end of WW II, for compendium of technologies applicable to the emerging field of electronic digital computers.Because published technical information was scarce in the U.S., there can be little question that the book was an important contribution to computer literature.with its state of the art picture of the period 1947 through 1949, establishes a well-documented baseline fro tracking and evaluating subsequent technological progress." Arnold Cohen, from the Introduction to the 1983 Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series Edition of the ERA Report, published by Tomash Publishing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first edition, 8vo., original navy cloth binding with gold lettering on spine, in a very good unclipped mylar protected DJ with a sunned spine. A thorough early study of the origins of the computer. Charles Brown Tompkins, a pioneering academic in the fields of numeric analysis and computing, wrote the majority of the text, much of which summarizes the work of the Engineering Research Associates computer company, of which he was founder in 1946. I particularly like this quote: A new type of amplifier called the transistor was recently announced by the Bell Telephone Laboratories. It seems likely that this device will simplify computer circuits considerably. It will probably be competitive with the electron tube in total cost per stage.…

New York, McGraw-Hill, 1950. 8vo. In the original full cloth with the original dust-jacket. Dust-jacket with light miscolouring to spine and and a tear to capitals. Small tear to upper part of the back to dust-jacket. A very fine and clean copy. XIII, (1), 451 pp. First edition in the rare original dust-jacket of the first textbook on digital computers. It constitutes "the first genuine textbook on computing techniques and computer hardware, was a pioneering book that influenced both American and foreign computer developments." (Tomash-Erwin E14). "The first treatise on how to build an electronic digital computer" (OOC)"High-Speed Computing Devices was written to satisfy a perceived need, following the end of World War II, for a compendium of technologies applicable to the emerging field of the electronic digital computer. Because published technical information was scarce in the US, there can be little question that the book was an important contribution to the computer literature of the 1950s. For today's student of computer history, whether a professional historian or a history buff, the book, with its state-of-the-art picture of the period 1947 through 1949, establishes a well-documented baseline for tracking and evaluating subsequent technological progress" (A.A. Cohen, "Introduction", Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series Edition of the ERA Report, 1983)."It provides the best picture of the state of the industry in its infancy. Ostensibly written as a report to the Office of Naval Research, the work was really undertaken on behalf of the Naval cryptographic establishment. Engineering Research Associates, ERA, was a group formed primarily from demobilized World War II naval cryptographers. It presents a discussion of the mechanical and electrical (both analog and digital) devices that could be usefully incorporated into computing machines. Although it does not survey the computer projects then underway, it does occasionally discuss individual machines in the context of integrating devices into complete systems. Engineering Research Associates (ERA) later became a division of Remington Rand and then of Sperry Rand." (Tomash-Erwin E14)Tomash-Erwin E14.Origins of Cyberspace 584.…