IEEE Annals of the History of Computing - April-June 2004

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Volume 26, Number 2

Contents:

Five 1951 BBC Broadcasts on Automatic Calculating Machines - Allan Jones

Datamation's Glory Days - Robert V. Head

Sydis and the Voice/Data Terminal Craze of 1984 - Albert J. Henry and Glenn E. Bugos

Recollections of the Philco Transac S-2000 - Saul Rosen

Computer Sciences at Purdue University - 1962-2000 - John R. Rice and Saul Rosen

People, Languages, and Computers: A Short Memoir - Keith Smillie

Biographies: Robert W Floyd, in Memorium - Donald Knuth

Events and Sightings

Anecdotes

Reviews

Think Piece: Jumping Contexts of Space and Time - Greg Downey

Allan Jones' article on 5 BBC broadcasts from 1951 refer to Douglas Hartree, Max Newman, Alan Turing, Freddie Williams and Maurice Wilkes and their work on the ACE (National Physical Laboratory), EDSAC (Cambridge University) and the Manchester Mark I Prototype ('Baby', Manchester University).

Kindly donated by Philip Sugden.

Publication Date : 2004

ISSN Number : 1058-6180

Format : Paper

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