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). Of note are their three references which serve for their audience of physicists as an introduction to computers. [image: Screen Shot 2022-04-28 at 6.31.34 PM.png] -Adam On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 1:11 PM Schmitt, Martin < martin.schmitt@tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
Dear Evan & SIGCIS,
I am impressed by the diversity of suggestions from the community, also about that German book about roboters. Thinking about the German discourse, this paper by Konrad Zuse from 1939 could be of interest: Zuse, Konrad: „*Calculator for Technical and Scientific Calculations Designed According to a Theoretical Plan*“ 1939.
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Am 17.03.2022 um 15:58 schrieb Evan Koblentz <evank@njit.edu>:
I’m interested in a new-to-me research angle: the people who changed computing by writing about it.
Lovelace comes to mind. So do Vannevar Bush and Edmund Berkeley.
1. Who else should I consider from prior to 1965? (I have the microcomputer generation covered.) 2. Are there existing papers on this subject?
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