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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm39753583
040 $aPUL$cPUL$dSMI
049 $aSMI+$nosds 08/19/05
099 $aMSS 001763 B
100 1 $aVon Neumann, John,$d1903-1957
245 10 $aFirst draft of a report on the EDVAC /$cby John von Neumann.
246 30 $aReport on the EDVAC
246 30 $aEDVAC
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bMoore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,$c1945.
300 $a[5], 100, [1] leaves ;$c27 cm. in envelope 38 cm.
500 $aMimeographed document in looseleaf form, as issued. The leaves are printed on the recto side only.
536 $aContract between the United States Army Ordnance Department and the University of Pennsylvania$bNo. W-670-ORD-4926.
590 $aSCDIRB copy 39088011475779 has stamps on title leaf: 1. Samuel N. Alexander; 2. National Bureau of Standards, Division 12, Data Processing Systems.
590 $aSCDIRB copy is unbound within an archival folder, and housed in an archival envelope (38 cm.) together with the following supporting material: 1. "The EDVAC report", a [2] p. unpublished (word-processed) document by Paul Ceruzzi of the National Air & Space Museum, dated Jan. 30, 1997, giving the background on how this copy of von Neumann's Report was acquired; 2. Photocopied excerpt from Herman H. Goldstine's book, The computer from Pascal to von Neumann (p. 191-192, 196-197), outlining von Neumann's role in creating the EDVAC; 3. Photocopied obituary, "Sam Alexander, 1910-1967," excerpted from an unidentified periodical (p. 65, 67, from February, 1968); 4. Two issues of the IEEE Annals of the History Computing, including v. 15, no. 1 (1993), containing the articles "The computer as von Neumann planned it," by M.D. Godfrey and D.F. Hendry, p. 11-21, and "The origins, uses, and fate of the EDVAC" by Michael R. Williams, p. 22-38; and v. 15, no. 4 (1993), containing a reprint of von Neumann's "First draft of a report on the EDVAC," edited and corrected by Michael D. Godfrey, p. 27-75.
590 $aSCDIRB copy of von Neumann's Report, and its supporting materials, has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Paul Ceruzzi.
650 0 $aElectronic digital computers
700 1 $aAlexander, Samuel N.,$d1910-1967,$eformer owner.$5DSI
710 1 $aUnited States.$bNational Bureau of Standards,$eformer owner.$5DSI
710 1 $aUnited States.$bArmy.$bOrdnance Dept.
710 2 $aUniversity of Pennsylvania
730 0 $aIEEE annals of the history of computing.
945 $atjit 6/10/98
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