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Library (click here for PDF's, here for DVD's and here for Movies) |
The following books are available at the Computarium (no lending out, to be read at the place!) | ||||
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ALDERMAN | Core Memory (2007) | ![]() |
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BASHE | IBM's early Computers (1986) | |
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BAUER | Origins and Foundations of Computing (2007, translation) | ![]() |
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BAUMANN |
EUREKA! Problem Solving with LEGO Robotics (2013) |
500 page book written by Computarium member Claude Baumann, published by NTS (National Technology and Scienc Press). Click here for the back of the cover. |
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BERNARD | ANALOGE RECHENTECHNIK (1968) | Relatively complex book; examples using the Heathkit EC-1 |
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BEYER |
Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age (2012) |
A biography of the
(co-)inventor of the compiler and the COBOL programming
langage, from THE MIT PRESS. |
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BITMAPS BOOK |
Commodore 64: a visual compendium (2016) |
A 476 pages colorful compendium on the games of the C64. Donated by our member Ronny Heinz, member of this kickstart project. |
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BITMAPS BOOK #3 |
Sinclair ZX Spectrum a visual compendium (2015) |
A huge colorful compendium on the games of the ZX Spectrum. This book started as a Kickstart project, and our member Ronny Heinz participated and donated the book to the Computarium library. |
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BISCHOFF | Versuch einer Geschichte der Rechenmaschinen (1804, reprint) | ![]() |
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BLETCHLEY PARK | Guidebook (2013) |
Bletchley Park housed the British
codebreakers during WW2. It is here that A. Turing broke the Enigma code using the BOMBE and that the Lorenz cyphers were cracked with the COLOSSUS. Purchased at the Bletchley Park Museum |
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BLUM | Introduction to Analog Computation (1969) | With examples for the EAI TR-20. Book goes up to Laplace transforms. |
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BLYTH | The Information Age |
A book from the
Science Museum,
London, donated by Claude Baumann. Tells the story of six networks that changed the world (cable, broadcast, exchange, constellation, web, cell). Very good pictures. 224 pages. |
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BRUDERER |
Meilensteine der Rechentechnik (2015) |
A big book from a former professor ("Dozent") of the ETHZ (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich). Many interesting details and time-tables (even if some repetition), and a very good history of Zuse's Z4 computer which was operational at the ETHZ. |
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CALVOCORESSI |
Top Secret Ultra (2011) |
A book from Peter Calvocoressi who worked during
WWII as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park, helping cracking the
Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. 2nd edition 2011, first edition 1980. Purchased at the Bletchley Park Museum. |
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COPELAND | COLOSSUS (2006) |
The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking
Computers. A blockbuster by Jack Copeland and many other authors. |
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CURTA | SERVICE HANDBUCH (1967) | Reprint of the original service handbook for the Curta I 8x6x11 |
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De BEAUCLAIR | Rechnen mit Maschinen (1968, reprint) | ![]() |
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BRAUCH | Programmierung mit Fortran (1974) | ![]() |
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DEC | Introduction to Programming (1968) | ![]() |
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DELIUS | Die Frau für die ich den Computer erfand (2009) | ![]() |
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DENIS-PAPIN | Mathématiques Générales Tome 1 (1959) | A formula collection |
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DENVER |
OFFICE MANAGEMENT Third Edition (1969) |
An "antique" book (first edition was 1959) with some nice chapters on machinery, including calculating machines of the 50-60's. |
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DODD |
Analogue Computers (1969) |
From the Teach Yourself Books series (The English University Press) |
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DONOVAN | Systems Programming (1972) | International Student Edition |
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DYSON | Turing's Cathedral (2012) | Son of famous Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson, George Dyson writes a bestseller on Alan Turing. | ![]() |
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FINE | Teaching Machines (1962) | ![]() |
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FINN |
Exposing Electronics (2003) |
A Science Museum book with a large chapter by Hartmut Petzhold on analog solvers of systems of linear equations (Wilhelm Cauer, C.L. Hull, Benjamin Wood. J.B. Wilbur). |
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FORSTER | Spielkonsolen und Heimcomputer (2002) | ![]() |
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FRAUENFELDER |
L'ORDINATEUR Une histoire de l'informatique (2005) |
Livre photographique grand format (29cm * 29cm) Don Carlo Mullesch. |
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FREYTAG | Wilhelm Schickards Tübinger Rechenmaschine (2002) | ![]() |
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FUCHS | KNAURS Buch der Denkmaschinen (1968) | Informationstheorie und Kybernetik |
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FUCHS |
DENKMASCHINEN (~1981) |
Mit 328 meist farbigen Abbildungen Manfred Pawlak Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Herrsching |
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GILLIES | Der Bug (2010) | An easy and funny story on retro computers fans. | ![]() |
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GILLIES | Extraleben (2010) | ![]() |
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GOLDSTINE A. |
ENIAC Technical Manual (1946) |
A reprint of the first technical manual of the Eniac, written by Adele K. Goldstine (1920-1964), the wife of Herman Goldstine and published by the Ordnance Dept.,U.S. Army. |
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GOLDSTINE H. | The Computer - from Pascal to von Neumann (1972) | ![]() |
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GOODMAN | Troubleshooting Microprocessors and Digital Logic (1980) | ![]() |
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GRIES | Compiler Construction for Digital Computers (1971) | Text is printout from an IBM 360/65 |
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GÜNTSCH | Einführung in die Programmmierung
digitaler Rechenautomaten (1963) |
Contains a chapter on machine code of the ZUSE Z22. | ![]() |
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GUEST |
Exploring Timex Sinclair 1500/1000
Graphics (1983) |
Donated by Carlo Mullesch. |
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HALLY |
Electronic Brains (2005) |
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HARTNELL |
49 Explosive Games for the ZX81 (1982) |
Donated by Carlo Mullesch |
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HOLLAND |
Rechenschieber A.W.Castell (2012) |
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HOCKNEY | Parallel Computers 2 (1988) | Second edition |
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HUMBY |
Special English Computers (1971) |
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IFRAH | UNIVERSALGESCHICHTE der ZAHLEN (1981) | German translation of the original French edition "Histoire Universelle des Chiffres" (Edition Seghers, Paris, 1981) |
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JOHNSON | The Evolution of British Sigint (1997) | ![]() |
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KAHLIG | Mathematische Routinen der Physik,
Chemie und Technik für AOS-Rechner, Teil 1 (1979) |
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KLAR |
Digitale Rechenautomaten (1989) |
Eine Einführung in die Struktur der
Computerhardware (4te neubearbeitete Auflage) |
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KOHL | Geschichte der Jacquard-Maschine (1873, reprint)) | ![]() |
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KORN |
Elektronische Analogie-Rechenmaschinen (1960) |
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LAING | Digital Retro (2007) | ![]() |
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LEVY |
In the PLEX How Google thinks, works and shapes our lives (2011) |
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LIPPE |
Die Geschichte der Rechenautomaten (2013) |
Band 1: Von der Himmelscheibe von Nebra bis zu
den ersten Rechenmaschinen
Band 2: Von mechanischen Chiffriergeräten bis zu den ersten programmierbaren Rechnern
Band 3: Von der Entwicklung der Hardware bis zum WWW |
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MACRAE | John von Neumann (1992) | One of the best biographies on this great
scientific genius. |
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McCLAIN | Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers (2002) | ![]() |
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McKAY | The Secret Life of Bletchley Park (2010) | A book on the living and workings of people (cryptographers, Wrens...) working in total secrecy at Bletchley Park to decode German ciphers during WWII. |
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MARGUIN | Histoire des instruments et machines à calculer (1994) | ![]() |
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MARTIN | Die Rechenmaschinen und ihre Entwicklungsgeschichte (1925, reprint) | ![]() |
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MOESL | Elektronische Tischrechenautomaten (1970) | ![]() |
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MUNZ | Philipp Matthäus Hahn (1990) | ![]() |
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MÜLLER | Fachwörterbuch der Mikroprozessorsysteme (1984) | ![]() |
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MÜLLER T. |
Analogrechner auf deutschen U-Booten des
Zweiten Weltkrieges (2015) |
A Phd dissertation on mostly mechanical or electromechanical devices & computers used for torpedo firing. Contains many mathematical calculations used to solving the torpedo guidance problems. |
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OPPELT | Anwendung von Rechenmaschinen bei der Berechnung von Regelvorgängen (1958) |
A book on analog computers and methods of analog
computing. Title page shows that this book belonged to Dr. Ing. Ernst B. Paschke, European Continental Manager of Electronic Associates Inc. (EAI), one of the major builder of analog computers. |
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POOLE |
70 Programmes BASIC pour IBM PC (1982) |
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RALSTON | Mathematische Methoden für Digitalrechner I & II (1969) | Mit Fortran und Algol Programmen |
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REESE | Neue Blicke auf alte Maschinen (2002) | ![]() |
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RINCE |
Le Minitel (1990) |
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RISEN | Rechenbüchlin (reprint) | ![]() |
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SANDERS |
The Elementary TIMEX/SINCLAIR 1000 |
A very elementary introduction to BASIC. Donated by Carlo Mullesch |
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SAUDAN |
Swiss Calculating Machines H.W.Egli A.-G. A success story (2017) |
A truly exellent book about the EGLI company and
it's outstanding machines (Millionär, Madas...). Many excellent
pictures and very clear technical explanations. ISBN 978-2-8399-2175-6 |
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SCARPATI |
The Computer Age (1971) |
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SCHAEFFER |
Fünfstellige Logarithmen (1970) |
8th edition of a book first published in 1955. Contains logarithms, values of trig. functions, squares, square-roots, cubes, cubic roots and financial tables. |
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SCHLOEMILCH | 5 Stellige LOGARITHMENTAFEL (1961) |
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SCHLOSSBORG | Spiel und Spass mit dem Taschenrechner (1975) | ![]() |
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SCHMITT |
FORTRAN-Kurs Technisch Orientiert (1992) |
Einführung in die Programmierung mit Fortran 77 |
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SCIENCE MUSEUM | Calculating Machines and Instruments (1975) | ![]() |
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SIEWIOREK | Computers and Strutures: Principles and Examples (1982) | 926 pages. |
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SILICIUM | Guide 2009 | ![]() |
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SMILEY |
The Man who invented
the Computer (2010) |
A biography of
John Antanasoff who together with Clifford Berry built
the first digital electronic computer in 1939-1942,
used for solving systems of linear equations.
See website http://jva.cs.iastate.edu/ |
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SMITH | Scientific Analysis on the Pocket Calculator (1975) | ![]() |
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STEPHENS |
Powerful Projects with your TIMEX/SINCLAIR (1985) |
Donated by Carlo Mullesch |
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ULMANN |
Analog Computing (2013) |
An excellent recent book from a real specialist and collectioner of analog computers. Look also at Prof. Ulmann's website http://www.analogmuseum.org, and search YouTube for ULMANN for some videos on analog computing. |
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WAIZE | Die Welt der Rechenmaschinen (1999) | ![]() |
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WELCHMAN | The Hut Six Story (2011) | Collaborator of Alan Turing, Cambridge mathematician Gordon Welchman was one of the directors of Bletchley Park and helped cracking the Enigma code. His book goes into some details explaining the working of the Enigma machine and the tricks used to decipher its coded messages. |
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WITTKE | Die Rechenmaschine und ihre Rechentechnik (1943) | ![]() |
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WITTMAN | Wörterbuch der Datenverarbeitung (1984) | ![]() |
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WURSTER | Der Computer: eine illustrierte Geschichte | ![]() |
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ZUSE | Der Computer - Mein Lebenswerk (1984, reprint 2010) | ![]() |
PDF's |
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BAUMANN | The 25th Anniversary of the LEGO RCX | from Computarium member Claude Baumann. A 34 page history and description of the Lego RCX Brick, with instructions how to use it with a modern computer or Raspberry Pi (July 2023) |
BRUDERER |
Konrad ZUSE
und die Schweiz |
from ETH-E collection original here |
BROMLEY |
Analog Computing Devices (1990, chapter 5
from Computing
before the Computers) |
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BROOKSHEAR |
COMPUTER SCIENCE, an overview (9th
edition 2007, 616 pages) (link removed following copyright complain) |
original here. |
CARE | From analogy-making to modelling: the history of analog computing as a modelling technology (2008) | Very extensive PhD thesis from Charles Philip Care, 2008, University of Warwick. Original link. |
CHASE |
History of Mechanical Computing Machinery (1980) | |
CLYMER | The Mechanical Analog Computers of Hannibal FORD and William NEWELL (1993) | from IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol.15, No.2, 1993 (from here) |
COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM |
Reports from 1980 on | Tremendous treasury of vintage computers. Original available here. |
COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM |
CORE journal 1999 to 2009 | The
journal of the CHM. Original available here |
CURTA | Exemples de calcul | scanned booklet with calculating examples which was sold with the CURTA machine |
DETLEFSEN |
Polnische Rechenmaschinenerfinder des 19 Jahrhunderts
(1976) |
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D'OCAGNE | Le
calcul simplifié (1905) |
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EAI | EAI Handbook of Analog Computation (1967) | A 396 pages blockbuster from 1967 by Electronic Associates Inc. |
EGGEBRECHT | Die
Produktion von Büromaschinen der Firma Diehl in Nürnberg |
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EKRUTT | Das Bedienen von mechanischen Rechenmaschinen (2005) | with instructions how to calculate the exponential and sinus functions |
FALK | Things That Count (ebook, 198 pages, 2014) |
ebook of Jim Falk's
website (Jim Falk, Things that Count: the rise and fall of calculators, things-that-count.net, Melbourne, 2014) |
FISCHER |
Le calcul par les machines (2012) | link to original on the Web. Musée d'Histoire des Sciences, Genève, Suisse. |
GALLE |
Mathematische Instrumente (1912) | |
GRAHAM-CUNNING | Alan
Turing's Legacy (2012) |
from NewScientist Instant Expert #23 |
HAERTEL | Die Klassifizierung mechanischer Rechenmaschinen (1996) | A very extensive report of te different types and mechanisms of mechanical calculators. Link. |
HORSBURGH |
Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculation (1914) | |
JUNG | OPAMP Applications Handbook (2002) | Large 970 pages book on operational amplifiers, the building blocks of electronic analog computers (from Analog Devices) |
MALAPERT | Arithmeticae
Practicae Brevis Institutio (1619) Arithmeticae Practicae Brevis Institutio (1679) |
original from 1619 and reprint from 1679 The Belgian S.J. monk Charles Malapert(e) seems to have invented the calculating rods independently of J. Napier. Downloaded from Google Books (29 and 31 MB). |
MARTIN |
Die Rechenmaschine und ihre
Entwicklungsgeschichte (1925, english translation) |
from the Ch. Babbage Institute, scan. |
MASSEN | Les pionniers de l'informatique à l'école (2005) | A
timeline of Luxembourg pionneers in computing in education. In French. Published in 2005 in RECREE, publication of the APESS |
MATHIEU |
Instruments de Mathématiques (1851) | |
MEHMKE |
Numerisches Rechnen (1912) | |
MONTAG | The Atanasoff-Berry Computer |
from the ENGINEERS
CLUB OF THE WEST VALLEY original link see video of replica in operation and read a paper on the reconstruction. Iowa Uni JVA site here. |
MUELLER | Upgrading
and Repairing PC's (1998) |
10th anniversary edition, 1541 pages |
NILL | Wilhelm Schickard's Rechenmaschine (Studienarbeit, GRIS, Uni Tübingen) | Sehr ausführliche Beschreibung der Funktionsweise. Java 3D Simulation. |
REEF |
Les
Technologies de l'Information et la Communication dans l'Enseignement Secondaire (2002) |
Rapport sur les expériences faites dans 3 lycées, dont le Lycée Classique de Diekirch (LCD). Quelques mots sur l'historique de l'informatique dans les lycées du Luxembourg. |
SCHWARZ | Der Urvater des Computers (Charles Babbage) |
www.wort.lu
(2017-Feb-16) |
SCHWARZ | Der Herr der Netze (Carl Adam Petri) | On the German inventor of the "Petri-Net". www.wort.lu (2016-July-14) |
SCHWARZ | Die Demokratisierung des Computers (John G. Kemeny) | On
John G. Kemeny, one of the inventors of the programming language
BASIC www.wort.lu (2016-May-26) |
SCHWARZ | Der Wille zum Wissen (Ada Lovelace) | On
Augusta Ada Byron, Babbages assistant and the first female
programmer. www.wort.lu (2016-Mar-03) |
SCHWARZ | Die Schönheit der Logik (George Boole) | 200
years since G. Boole, the inventar of the boolean algebra, was born.
www.wort.lu (2015-Dec-03) |
SCHWARZ | Sozial und innovativ (Heinz Nixdorf) | On the great German computer builder H. Nixdorf. www.wort.lu (2015-Nov-19) |
SCHWARZ | Er erfand den elektronischen Computer (John V. Atanasoff) | On
J.V. Atanasoff and his ABC computer. www.wort.lu (2015-Sep-24) |
SCHWARZ | Computer sind immer logisch (George Stibitz) | 20 years since this great mathematician passed away. www.wort.lu (2015-Jul-02) |
SCHWARZ | Die Kunst der Kodierung (Richard Hamming) | On R. Hamming's 100th birthday. www.wort.lu (2015-Feb-12) |
SCHWARZ | Bletchley Park - streng geheim | On the famous code-breaking factory.www.wort.lu (2015-Feb-05) |
SCHWARZ | Kein Geschenk für den Führer (Curt Herzstark) | On C. Herzstark and his marvelous Curta calculator. www.wort.lu (2013-Oct-24) |
SCHWARZ | Der Beginn des Computer-Zeitalters (Howard Aiken) | On
H. Aiken and his work at IBM. www.wort.lu (2013-Mar-14) |
SCHWARZ | Berühmt und doch unbekannt (Alan Turing) | Turing and cryptography from the Luxemburger Wort www.wort.lu (2012-Jun-21) |
SCHWARZ | Eine geheime unbekannte Maschine | Colossus and Bletchley Park from the Luxemburger Wort www.wort.lu (2012-Jun-12) |
SCHWARZ | Compiler und Cobol (Grace Hopper) | On Admiral G.M. Hopper from the Luxemburger Wort www.wort.lu (2012-Jan-26) |
SCHWARZ | Wegwerfprodukt schreibt Geschichte | 40 years since the invention of the Intel 4004 microprocessor www.wort.lu (2011-Dec-08) |
SCHWARZ | Der Computer - sein Lebenswerk (Konrad Zuse) |
Konrad Zuse's 100th anniversary. www.wort.lu (2010-Jun-17) |
SCHWARZ | Kennen Sie Shannon ? (Claude Shannon, Heinz Nixdorf Forum) |
Special exhition in the HNF www.wort.lu (2009-Dec-10) |
SCHWARZ | Revolutionäre Bedeutung (Norbert Wiener) |
Cybernetics and Norbert Wiener. www.wort.lu (2009-Jan-29) |
SCHWARZ | Information - ein merkwürdiger Stoff (Claude Shannon) | On C. Shannon's information theory.www.wort.lu (2008-Oct-30) |
SCHWARZ | Ein Unbekannter, Unsterblicher (Alan Turing) |
On Alan Turing an his work at Bletchley
Park. www.wort.lu (2007-Jun-07) |
SCHWARZ | Innovate or die (John von Neumann) | 50 years since this great mathematical genius passed away. www.wort.lu (2007-Mar-08) |
STOLL |
The Curious History of the First Pocket Calculator (the CURTA) | Article by Cliff Stoll in Scientific American, Jan. 2004 |
STONE |
The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments,
translated from the French of M. Bion, Chief Instrument-Maker for
the French King (1758) |
Original book digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012. Original link : http://archive.org/details/constructionprin03bion.pdf |
SVOBODA | Computing Mechanisms and Linkages (1948) | Original book from Antonin Svoboda on mechanical devices for computing (MIT Radiation Laboratory); 374 pages.Original link. |
SUREK |
Planimeter und Integraph
(2011) |
Wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit, erste Staatsprüfung |
ROBINSON |
Decimal Binary Conversion using Brunsviga (1957) | |
WEISS, Stephan | Ausführungen und Varianten der Schaltorgane in historischen Vierspezies-Maschinen (2008) | Original link in www.mechrech.info |
WILBUR, John B. | The Mechanical Solution of Simultaneous Equations (1934) | A machine built at the MIT for solving a system of linear equations. Addendum on a rebuilt in 1944 by Tokyo Imperial University. |
WILLIAMS & JOHNSON | Why are Tabular Calculators almost forgotten? | |
ZORZI | Design Process Olivetti 1908-1983 |
All these PDF's are Public Domain (Google
& Microsoft digitized, Göttinger
Digitalisierungszentrum....) or authorized for publication on
the web-site.
Look also at
www.rechenmaschinen-illustrated.com.
DVD's |
last edit: 21 Jul 2023