• Machine Methods of Accounting - use of IBM unit record equipment, copyright by IBM, 1935, 360 pages, pdf, 99 KBytes very well done and interesting, scanned by Randy Neff
• Programming With Punched Cards by Dale Fisk, a jewel !! (local copy)

• Electronics in IBM 1952, up throught IBM 701, Form 22-6019-0, excellent introduction to electronics. 16.6 megabytes
  Table of Contents for Form-22-6019-0

  From Cathode Ray Tube to Ferranti Mark I Tom Kilburn

  Williams Tube Memory from Computer Development (SEAC and DYSEAC) by National Bureau of Standards

  Williams Tube Memory from a navy training manual

  The Williams Tube Revisited Tony Sale, Resurrection Volume 5.

  IBM 706 - Williams Tube Memory an IBM manual and Bob Erickson's class notes - used on the IBM 701

  scanned by Randy Neff, then sorted and enhanced June 2010, a 8 megabyte .pdf file - higher resolutions - CDROM and .tiffs available

  A Table of Contents for the above

  WilliamsTubeMemory, IBM 701, Bob Erickson's 1 page summary drawing 170 KB, 454 KB

  Mercury Delay Line Memory from UNIVAC I maintenance manual

  IBM - Transistor Theory - Form 223-6794 1959 .pdf 1.9 Megabytes

  Magnetic Core Memory from a navy training manual
  - Magnetic core patent list from Rick Gerson An Wang(Wang Computers) {2,708,722}, Jay W. Forrester(MIT) {2,736,880} and Ken Olsen(DEC, a former neighbor) {3,161,861}. U.S. Patent Office

  Coincident Current Ferrite Core Memories by James R Jones. Interesting 1976 Byte Magazine article. Permission Requested

  Thin Film Memory from a navy training manual

  The Random-Access Memory Accounting Machine

  - I. System organization of the IBM 305 (Lesser & Haanstra)

  - II. The Magnetic-Disk, Random-Access Memory - (Noyes & Dickinson)

  (off site) spotted by Randy Thelen

• - A -
• ERA ATLAS and ERA 1101 - by Harlan Snyder

• - B -
• "Burroughs 205 Central Computer Handbook", "Burroughs 205 Command List"
• "Burroughs B5000 Description"

• - C -
• CDC 160A designed by Seymour Cray
• CDC 6600 Reference Manual
• Considerations in Computer Design - Leading up to the The Control Data 6600 by J.E. Thornton -
• Design of a Computer The Control Data 6600 by J.E. Thornton - pdf format scanned (with permission) by Tom Uban (7.9 megabytes). Spotted by Mike. Local copy
• CRAY-1 Hardware Reference Manual, first three chapters.
• "A History of Supercomputing at Florida State University" by Jeff Bauer CDC, ETA, CRAY
• Comptometer-Instructions

• - E -
• Solving the Enigma: History of the Cryptanalytic Bombe a 50 page booklet by NSA (National Security Agency)
• The Cryptographic Mathematics of ENIGMA a 20 page booklet by NSA (National Security Agency)
• English Electric, DEUCE - SODA A Translation Routine for the DEUCE Computer - by R. C. Brigham and C. G. Bell
• ERA ATLAS and ERA 1101 - by Harlan Snyder
• ERA 1101 - ERA1101 -ERA-1101 documents Harlan Snyder used to train on the machine in ?1950?

• - G -
• ERMA made by General Electric for Bank of America (local),
  also The Development of the ERMA Banking System: Lessons from History by Fisher and McKenny in pdf format

  G-15 Manuals 20 manuals scanned and stored by David Green who also points out 5 more G-15 manuals posted by Paul Pierce.

  G.E. 225 pictures from Queensland Museum, and my comments

  Scans of GE-235, GE-DN-30 and GE-265 manuals

  GE-200 Series Operation Manual CPB-247C 8.7 Megabytes .pdf

  GE-225 System Operating Manual 1963 -> index page

  GE-235 System Manual CPB-267 date 1963 7.8 Megabytes .pdf

  "GE-635 Reference Manual" (preview version this site) from the transcriber Hans B Pufal

  - I -

  Final Progress Report on the Physical Realization of an Electronic Computing Instrument" (IAS machine) by Goldstine, Pomerene, Smith - spotted by Leif Harcke. local backup copy

  IBM 011 Electric Punch Service Manual - .pdf 4.3 megabytes

  The IBM 26 Printing Key Punch, Reference Manual

  IBM 029 Card Punch (Key Punch) Field Engineering Maintenance Manual

  IBM 077 Collator - Manual Of Instruction scanned by Randy Neff - .pdf 5.8 megabytes

  IBM 077 Collator Principles Of Operation scanned by Randy Neff - .pdf 10.0 megabytes

  IBM 83 Sorter, Manual of Operation

  305 RAMAC Manual of Operation - 150 pages 27 megabytes .pdf

  IBM Type 350 Magnetic-Disk Random-Access Memory and System Organization of the IBM 305

  linked from IBM RAMAC 305 System and IBM RAMAC 350 Disk Drive Magnetic Disk Heritage Center

  RAMAC some images

  IBM 650 RAMAC - Manual of Operation - Preliminary Edition" lent by LaFarr Stuart, note, a later edition than on bitsavers.org - placed here for timing of "355 RAMAC" operations - 4.6 megabytes

  IBM 603 - Accounting Machines - Electronic Multiplier Customer Engineering Manual of Instruction

  IBM 604 - Principles of Operation, Reference Manual .pdf - 9 megabytes

  IBM 650 Practice Problems - Form 22-6215-2 - October 1956 - 4.7 megabytes

  IBM 650 Practice Problems, Additional Features - Form 22-6219-1 - October 1956 1.4 megabytes

  "IBM 704 Manual of Operation"

  IBM 706 - Williams Tube Memory an IBM manual and Bob Erickson's class notes - used on the IBM 701

  scanned by Randy Neff, then sorted and enhanced June 2010, a 8 megabyte .pdf file - higher resolutions - CDROM and .tiffs available

  A Table of Contents for the above

  IBM 729 Customer Engineering Instruction Reference - 223-6988

  a 15.5 megabyte .pdf file

  Programming the IBM 1401

  a 6.0 megabyte .pdf file

  IBM 1402 Card Read-Punch IBM Customer Engineering Manual

  The IBM Card-Programmed Electronic Calculator, an 8 page article (Images up to 250 K bytes)

  Planning a Computer System - Project Stretch Edited by Werner Buchholz IBM 7030 - post scan processing by Paul McJones - 10.4 megabytes

  - L -

  THE MECHANICAL COMBINATION OF LINEAR FORMS a theoretical discussion of the Chain Prime Number Sieve Machine by D. H. LEHMER

  HUNTING BIG GAME IN THE THEORY OF NUMBERS a popular discussion on humting primes by D. N. LEHMER

  Lehmer Sieves by Mike Williams williams@computerhistory.org

  ""LGP-21 Programming Manual"" (the LGP-21 is code compatIble with the LGP-30)

  "LGP-30 Programming Manual" by Royal McBee Corporation

  Wes Clark lecture on the LINC November 18, 1981 - actually made by DEC

  - M -

  "MANIAC II", manual, successor to the MANIAC at Los Alamos

  Monroe LA Instructions

  - O -

  Olivetti, Some information about the Elea 9003, Elea 6001, Elea 4001

  - T -

  Teletype Model 28 Maintenance Manual

  - U -

  The Univac M-460 Computer which appears functionally identical and physically similar to the UNIVAC NTDS computer.

  - W -

  Wang "Calculating Apparatus" patent or how 300 transistors can do better than thousands.

  WISC - Gene Amdahl's PhD Thesis (off-site, scanned by Todd Bezenek who reminds us of the University of Wisconsin Libraries policy on copyrights.

On-Line Documents - Biographic

• Amdahl, Gene
• (offsite) COMPUTER - Bit Slices From a Life by Herbert R.J. Grosch
• Programming With Punched Cards by Dale Fisk, a jewel !! (local copy)

Software

• a_dozen_precursors_of_fortran.knuth-don.2003-12-03.102656937.wmv presentation by Donald Knuth 2003-12-03
• History of FORTRAN and FORTRAN II many documents, Paul McJones
• IBM Programmer Aptitude Test 120-6762-2 dated 1958
• Stories about the B5000 and People Who Were There by Richard Waychoff
• "Sargon, a Computer Chess Program"
• a history of ACK computer chess tournaments

Notes on OCRing

Notes from Al Kossow - Grand Champion scanner of computer documents - March 1, 2003

> What are the tools for capturing and viewing larger documents? e.g B,C,D size drawings "large format" scanners (sort of look like blueprint machnines) Generally, they are input devices for xerographic copiers. I have two different models of Contex units. I finally was able to get the programming information for them about a month ago. There are expensive packages available that are targeted at the image processing required for capture of diazo and blueprints. for 11x17 and smaller, I use a fairly old Ricoh IS520 40ppm duplex scanner capable of up to 400dpi 1bpp. It generates compressed TIFFs which I burst into individual pages, crop the edges, resize to 8.5 x 11 or 11 x 17 (and rotate as necessary) as a batch operation, then verify the pages look ok and set the file name to the page number of the document. I then run a program which coverts the TIFFs to a PDF and adds a bookmark for each page. This is all done on my Mac running OSX This whole postprocessing step is fairly time consuming. It is about 10x longer to postprocess than it was to scan. my purpose for digitizing all of my archives has been that it would take me one one two days to find something I was looking for in the stacks. everything I've scanned in the past year fits in about 50gb of disc space

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