Computers and Automation Volume 6 Number 7, July 1957
Newtonville, MA: Berkeley Enterprises, Inc. 1957. First Edition. 35 pages. 8 x 11 1/8 inches. Original printed wrappers. Minor wear to the extremities, folded in center for mailing as normal. Surface tear to rear wrapper where sticker was removed. Good. Wraps. [23314]
Computers and Automation was "the world's first periodical on electronic computing and also the first computer journal issued by a commercial publisher. It predated by a year the first issue of the Proceedingsof the Association for Computing Machinery." (Origins of Cyberspace 469) This issue of the journal contains "A Survey Course in Automatic Data Processing Systems" by Lowell H. Hattery and Charles H. Phillips, 'Leprechaun' - an Automatic Digital Computer the Size of a Television Set", and "Syntax Patterns in English Studied by Electronic Computer" by the National Bureau of Standards. Ex-corporate library from the Norden Laboratories Corp, the company that developed the Norden Bomb site so instrumental in World War II.
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