vacuum tube circuits

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Thu Apr 8 18:26:09 1999

>
> > I saw a hardcover book from 1957 at the used bookstore, that discussed
> > digital computer circuits, and had chapters on vacuum tube logic circuits,
> > corememory circuits, some transistor circuits, etc. If this is something
> > that someone here is dieing to have, perhaps because you're designing
> > a vacuum tube computer circuit, just let me know and i'll try to get it
> > before someone else does ;)
>
> In fact, my plan is to build a tube computer someday soon. What was the
> title of the book, and how much was it selling for?
>

Well, several people have asked about this book. Its "Digital Computer
components & circuits" by R. K. Richards, 1957, reprinted 1958. He says
its a companion book to his "arithmetic Operations in Digital Computers",
which the bookstore also has, but thats just a general boolean-logic type
of book.

Anyways, the used bookstore wants $15 for it. Perhaps I should see about
photocopying this.

chapters:

1 History & Introduction
2 Diode switching circuits
3 Vacuum tube systems of circuit logic
4 Transistor systems of circuit logic
5 magnetic core systems of circuit logic
6 Large capacity storage: non-magnetic devices
7 Storage on a magnetic surface
8 Magnetic core storage
9 Circuits and tubes for decimal counting
10 Miscellaneous components and circuits
11 Analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Thu Apr 08 1999 - 18:26:09 BST