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ECKERT, J. Presper. (1) "Computers of the 70s." Autograph manuscript. N.p, n.d. [ca. December 1970]. 26ff. (2) "Yesterday, today and tomorrow in computer technology." Draft consisting of typescript and autograph manuscript. N.p, n.d. [ca. December 1970]. 27ff. (3) "Yesterday, today and tomorrow in computer technology. "Photocopied typescript with ms. label attached reading "Mar. 4 - Page 8. Helsinki speech." N.p, n.d. [ca. December 1970]. 12ff. (4) "Tokyo speech" [title in ms.]. Photocopied galley proofs and carbon typescript. N.p, December 1970. 8ff.
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ECKERT, J. Presper. (1) "Computers of the 70s." Autograph manuscript. N.p, n.d. [ca. December 1970]. 26ff. (2) "Yesterday, today and tomorrow in computer technology." Draft consisting of typescript and autograph manuscript. N.p, n.d. [ca. December 1970]. 27ff. (3) "Yesterday, today and tomorrow in computer technology. "Photocopied typescript with ms. label attached reading "Mar. 4 - Page 8. Helsinki speech." N.p, n.d. [ca. December 1970]. 12ff. (4) "Tokyo speech" [title in ms.]. Photocopied galley proofs and carbon typescript. N.p, December 1970. 8ff.
Draft and final versions of a speech that Eckert delivered in Zurich, Helsinki, and Tokyo. (1) is a particularly significant speech in that it amounts to a history of memory technology since ENIAC, with predictions for the future. "Perhaps the major problem of building an electronic computer in the beginning was the high speed memory required. In ENIAC it consist[ed] of tubes, relays, plugs, switches, and resistor arrays. It cost between $25 and $500 per digit depending on whether it was read only memory, set by switches, or fully electronic flip-flop memory! Today I believe our best solution to this problem, except for small memories, say less than 100,000 bits, is some sort of magnetic thin film memory. The most practical so far is the plated wire memory now in use for several years. This now costs no more than equivalent core memory and is faster, more compact and takes less power. Present wire memories are hundreds of times faster than most of the memory in ENIAC" (page II). OOC 1370.
Draft and final versions of a speech that Eckert delivered in Zurich, Helsinki, and Tokyo. (1) is a particularly significant speech in that it amounts to a history of memory technology since ENIAC, with predictions for the future. "Perhaps the major problem of building an electronic computer in the beginning was the high speed memory required. In ENIAC it consist[ed] of tubes, relays, plugs, switches, and resistor arrays. It cost between $25 and $500 per digit depending on whether it was read only memory, set by switches, or fully electronic flip-flop memory! Today I believe our best solution to this problem, except for small memories, say less than 100,000 bits, is some sort of magnetic thin film memory. The most practical so far is the plated wire memory now in use for several years. This now costs no more than equivalent core memory and is faster, more compact and takes less power. Present wire memories are hundreds of times faster than most of the memory in ENIAC" (page II). OOC 1370.
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