A few good men from Univac /

In this personal memoir, electrical engineer David Lundstrom recalls the heyday of early computing, the rise of Control Data out of the Univac division of Sperry Rand, such milestone computer systems as the Univac and the Naval Tactical Data System the exploits of CDC's top designer Seymour Cra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lundstrom, David E.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1987.
Series:	MIT Press series in the history of computing
Subjects:	Univac computer > History. Computer industry > History. COMPUTER SCIENCE/General Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	In this personal memoir, electrical engineer David Lundstrom recalls the heyday of early computing, the rise of Control Data out of the Univac division of Sperry Rand, such milestone computer systems as the Univac and the Naval Tactical Data System the exploits of CDC's top designer Seymour Cray, and the gradual corporate shift from the exciting and technically interesting world of computer design to internal politics and clumsy bureaucracy. - Publisher.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xii, 227 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
ISBN:	0262256592 9780262256599
DOI:	10.7551/mitpress/2983.001.0001