From whirlwind to MITRE : the R&D story of the SAGE air defense computer / Kent C. Redmond and Thoma...
From whirlwind to MITRE : the R&D story of the SAGE air defense computer / Kent C. Redmond and Thoma...
From whirlwind to MITRE : the R&D story of the SAGE air defense computer / Kent C. Redmond and Thomas M. Smith.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.
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N355.45/ 23
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English
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vii, 535 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.
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Massachusetts
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c2000.
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"Aside from its strategic importance, SAGE set the foundation for mass data processing and foreshadowed many computer developments of the 1960s. The heart of the system, the AN/FSQ-7, was the first computer to have an internal memory composed of magnetic cores - tiny ferrite rings that served as reversible electromagnets. SAGE also introduced compu...
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From whirlwind to MITRE : the R&D story of the SAGE air defense computer / Kent C. Redmond and Thomas M. Smith.
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History of computing.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-531) and index.
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c2000.
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N355.45/ 23
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74Vv4OP0ygMM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv4OP0ygMM
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0262182017 (hc. : alk. paper)
9780262182010 (hc. : alk. paper)
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355.450973
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991015435749702626
