The following books are available at the Computarium (no lending out, to be read at the place!)
Count	Books	91
	DVD's	6
	PDF's	63
ALDERMAN		Core Memory (2007)
BASHE		IBM's early Computers (1986)
BAUER		Origins and Foundations of Computing (2007, translation)
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.
BERNARD		ANALOGE RECHENTECHNIK (1968)	Relatively complex book; examples using the Heathkit EC-1
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.
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.
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.
BISCHOFF		Versuch einer Geschichte der Rechenmaschinen (1804, reprint)
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
BLUM		Introduction to Analog Computation (1969)	With examples for the EAI TR-20. Book goes up to Laplace transforms.
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.
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.
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.
COPELAND		COLOSSUS (2006)	The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers. A blockbuster by Jack Copeland and many other authors.
CURTA		SERVICE HANDBUCH (1967)	Reprint of the original service handbook for the Curta I 8x6x11
De BEAUCLAIR		Rechnen mit Maschinen (1968, reprint)
BRAUCH		Programmierung mit Fortran (1974)
DEC		Introduction to Programming (1968)
DELIUS		Die Frau für die ich den Computer erfand (2009)
DENIS-PAPIN		Mathématiques Générales Tome 1 (1959)	A formula collection
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.
DODD		Analogue Computers (1969)	From the Teach Yourself Books series (The English University Press)
DONOVAN		Systems Programming (1972)	International Student Edition
DYSON		Turing's Cathedral (2012)	Son of famous Princeton  physicist Freeman Dyson, George Dyson writes a bestseller on Alan Turing.
FINE		Teaching Machines (1962)
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).
FORSTER		Spielkonsolen und Heimcomputer (2002)
FRAUENFELDER		L'ORDINATEUR Une histoire de l'informatique (2005)	Livre photographique grand format (29cm * 29cm) Don Carlo Mullesch.
FREYTAG		Wilhelm Schickards Tübinger Rechenmaschine (2002)
FUCHS		KNAURS Buch der Denkmaschinen (1968)	Informationstheorie und Kybernetik
FUCHS		DENKMASCHINEN (~1981)	Mit 328 meist farbigen Abbildungen Manfred Pawlak Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Herrsching
GILLIES		Der Bug (2010)	An easy and funny story on retro computers fans.
GILLIES		Extraleben (2010)
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.
GOLDSTINE H.		The Computer - from Pascal to von Neumann (1972)
GOODMAN		Troubleshooting Microprocessors and Digital Logic (1980)
GRIES		Compiler Construction for Digital Computers (1971)	Text is printout from an IBM 360/65
GÜNTSCH		Einführung in die Programmmierung digitaler Rechenautomaten (1963)	Contains a chapter on machine code of the ZUSE Z22.
GUEST		Exploring Timex Sinclair 1500/1000 Graphics (1983)	Donated by Carlo Mullesch.
HALLY		Electronic Brains (2005)
HARTNELL		49 Explosive Games for the ZX81 (1982)	Donated by Carlo Mullesch
HOLLAND		Rechenschieber A.W.Castell (2012)
HOCKNEY		Parallel Computers 2 (1988)	Second edition
HUMBY		Special English Computers (1971)
IFRAH		UNIVERSALGESCHICHTE der ZAHLEN (1981)	German translation of the original French edition "Histoire Universelle des Chiffres" (Edition Seghers, Paris, 1981)
JOHNSON		The Evolution of British Sigint (1997)
KAHLIG		Mathematische Routinen der Physik, Chemie und Technik für AOS-Rechner,  Teil 1 (1979)
KLAR		Digitale Rechenautomaten (1989)	Eine Einführung in die Struktur der Computerhardware (4te neubearbeitete Auflage)
KOHL		Geschichte der Jacquard-Maschine (1873, reprint))
KORN		Elektronische Analogie-Rechenmaschinen (1960)
LAING		Digital Retro (2007)
LEVY		In the PLEX How Google thinks, works and shapes our lives (2011)
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
MACRAE		John von Neumann (1992)	One of the best biographies on this great scientific genius.
McCLAIN		Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers (2002)
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.
MARGUIN		Histoire des instruments et machines à calculer (1994)
MARTIN		Die Rechenmaschinen und ihre Entwicklungsgeschichte (1925, reprint)
MOESL		Elektronische Tischrechenautomaten (1970)
MUNZ		Philipp Matthäus Hahn (1990)
MÜLLER		Fachwörterbuch der Mikroprozessorsysteme (1984)
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.
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.
POOLE		70 Programmes BASIC pour IBM PC (1982)
RALSTON		Mathematische Methoden für Digitalrechner I & II (1969)	Mit Fortran und Algol Programmen
REESE		Neue Blicke auf alte Maschinen (2002)
RINCE		Le Minitel (1990)
RISEN		Rechenbüchlin (reprint)
SANDERS		The Elementary TIMEX/SINCLAIR 1000	A very elementary introduction to BASIC. Donated by Carlo Mullesch
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
SCARPATI		The Computer Age (1971)
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.
SCHLOEMILCH		5 Stellige LOGARITHMENTAFEL (1961)
SCHLOSSBORG		Spiel und Spass mit dem Taschenrechner (1975)
SCHMITT		FORTRAN-Kurs Technisch Orientiert (1992)	Einführung in die Programmierung mit Fortran 77
SCIENCE MUSEUM		Calculating Machines and Instruments (1975)
SIEWIOREK		Computers and Strutures: Principles and Examples (1982)	926 pages.
SILICIUM		Guide 2009
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/
SMITH		Scientific Analysis on the Pocket Calculator (1975)
STEPHENS		Powerful Projects with your TIMEX/SINCLAIR (1985)	Donated by Carlo Mullesch
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.
WAIZE		Die Welt der Rechenmaschinen (1999)
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.
WITTKE		Die Rechenmaschine und ihre Rechentechnik (1943)
WITTMAN		Wörterbuch der Datenverarbeitung (1984)
WURSTER		Der Computer: eine illustrierte Geschichte
ZUSE		Der Computer - Mein Lebenswerk (1984, reprint 2010)

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.

HNF	Eine Zeitreise (1996, 15 minutes)
HNF	Die Geschichte der Null (1985, 28 minutes)
HNF	Weltgeschichte der Kryptologie (2006)
HNF	Zahlen & Schriftzeichen (1996)
KNAUER	Konrad ZUSE (1990, 72 minutes, German and English)
ZUSE	Konrad Zuse Multimedia Show

last edit: 21 Jul 2023

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