Literatur

Autor: Raúl Rojas, Ulf Hashagen
Titel: The First Computers - History and Architecture
Verlag: The MIT Press
Sprache:  Englisch
Jahr: 2000

450 Seiten

Was steht drin:

Es wird die Technik der allerersten Computer vorgestellt, wo bei nach amerikanischen, britischen, deutschen und japanischen Entwicklungen unterschieden wird. Auch Fragen der Rekonstruktion und Simulation werden behandelt.

Warum soll man es lesen:

Vor allem wegen der Darstellungen von Zuse's Maschinen und der Göttinger G1/G3 von Billing (R. Rojas hat schliesslich in Berlin an der Rekonstruktion der Z3 mitgewirkt). Und weil es mal nicht nur die amerikanischen Entwicklungen behandelt!

Inhalt:

Introduction

• A Preview of Things to Come: Some Remarks on the First Generation of Computers

Part I: History, Reconstructions, Architectures

• The Structures of Computation
• Reconstructions, Historical and Otherwise: The Challenge of High-Tech Artifacts
• A Classification Scheme for Program Controlled Calculators
• Hardware Components and Computer Design

Part II: The American Scene

• Reconstruction of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer
• Howard Aiken and the Dawn of the Computer Age
• The ENIAC: History, Operation, and Reconstruction in VLSI
• The Institute for Advanced Study Computer: A Case Study in the Application of Concepts from the History of Technology
• "Nothing New Since von Neumann": A Historian Looks at Computer Architecture, 1945-1995

Part III: The German Scene

• The DEHOMAG Dll Tabulator - A Milestone in the History of Data Processing
• The Architecture of Konrad Zuse's Early Computing Machines
• Konrad Zuse's Z4: Architecture, Programming, and Modifications at the ETH Zurich
• The Plankalkül of Konrad Zuse - Revisited
• The G1 and the Göttingen Family of Digital Computers
• Konrad Zuse and Industrial Manufacturing of Electronic Computers in Germany
• Helmut Hoelzer - Inventor of the Electronic Analog Computer

Part IV: The British Scene

• The Colossus of Bletchley Park - The German Cipher System
• The Manchester Mark 1 Computers
• Rebuilding the First Manchester Computer
• The Atlas Computer
• Past into Present: The EDSAC Simulator

Part V: Early Japanese Computers

• The First Japanese Computers and Their Software Simulators
• The Parametron Computer PC-1 and Its Initial Input Routine