DocumentCode
1549180
Title
SWAC-Standards Western Automatic Computer: the Pioneer Day session at NCC July 1978
Author
Huskey, Harry D.
Volume
19
Issue
2
fYear
1997
Firstpage
51
Lastpage
61
Abstract
This is an edited transcript of the Pioneer Day session that took place at the 1978 NCC Conference. It was a panel session, moderated by Harry Huskey, that included short talks by the people that built and used the SWAC computer. After Huskey´s introduction, Harry T. Larson provided some of the engineering details of SWAC, R. Thorensen then told of some of the later developments that took place with the machine, Mike Melkanoff gave some idea of how this machine was used at UCLA, and finally Dick Lehmer said something about the applications that SWAC ran
Keywords
computers; digital computers; history; 1978 NCC Conference; California University, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Pioneer Day session; SWAC; Standards Western Automatic Computer; UCLA; computer applications; edited transcript; engineering details; panel session;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1058-6180
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/85.586073
Filename
586073
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