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Lot 46

EDVAC.
PATTERSON, GEORGE W.
Proposed Programming for Matric-Algebraic Operations on EDVAC. I-Matrix Multiplication. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Moore School of Engineering, March 14, 1947.

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EDVAC.

PATTERSON, GEORGE W. Proposed Programming for Matric-Algebraic Operations on EDVAC. I-Matrix Multiplication. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Moore School of Engineering, March 14, 1947.
4to (279 x 215 mm). Original cloth-backed printed wrappers. Some faint spots, wrappers lightly soiled and creased.
Provenance: Andrew Donald Booth, co-designer of the APE(X) C series of computers (ownership signature to front wrapper).

FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST PUBLISHED PAPERS ON PROGRAMMING OF A STORED PROGRAM COMPUTER.
In 1946, Patterson joined the staff of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania, where he designed the logic for EDVAC arithmetic circuits and coordinated the logic design for the entire machine. Hook & Norman Origins of Cyberspace 827.

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