<div dir="ltr">Apologize for dredging up an old thread, but attached is a wonderful article in the journal Physics in Canada from 1955 by Beatrice Worsley and JNP Hume on TRANSCODE, a tool best described as a non-portable assembler for the FERUT (a Ferranti Mark I in Toronto). <div><br></div><div>Of note are their three references which serve for their audience of physicists as an introduction to computers. </div><img src="cid:ii_l2jrel0f0" alt="Screen Shot 2022-04-28 at 6.31.34 PM.png" width="494" height="96"><br><div>-Adam</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 1:11 PM Schmitt, Martin <<a href="mailto:martin.schmitt@tu-darmstadt.de">martin.schmitt@tu-darmstadt.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">



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<div>I am impressed by the diversity of suggestions from the community, also about that German book about roboters.</div>
<div>Thinking about the German discourse, this paper by Konrad Zuse from 1939 could be of interest: </div>
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<div>Take care and best wishes from Darmstadt,<br>
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<div>Am 17.03.2022 um 15:58 schrieb Evan Koblentz <<a href="mailto:evank@njit.edu" target="_blank">evank@njit.edu</a>>:</div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt">I’m interested in a new-to-me research angle: the people who changed computing by writing about it.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt">Lovelace comes to mind. So do Vannevar Bush and Edmund Berkeley.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt">Who else should I consider from prior to 1965? (I have the microcomputer generation covered.)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:11pt">Are there existing papers on this subject?<u></u><u></u></span></li></ol>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,111,111)">Evan A Koblentz</span></b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(111,111,111)"><br>
Staff Writer, Office of Strategic Communications<br>
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