Summary
Design Brief from the University of Adelaide Electrical Engineering Department, entitled ' Digital Computer Project'. The paper describes the basic organisation and order code for transistorised digital computer. The paper is accompanied by 2 copies of a table of function calculations and a list of publications. The Design Brief is probably for the CIRRUS computer.
The material was included with the CSIRAC computer archival collection donated by the University of Melbourne. It has nothing to do with CSIRAC.
Details:
1958c Paper-University of Adelaide: 'Digital Computer Project' (as above)
Physical Description
Ten loose foolscap typewritten pages
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Collection Names
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Computer Science & Software Engineering Department, University of Melbourne (The), by Jul 2003
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User
University of Melbourne (The), Grattan Street, Parkville, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1958
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Inscriptions
Title: 'The University of Adelaide/Electrical Engineering Department/ DIGITAL COMPUTER PROJECT' 'TP & GH' is written in pencil of the top right corner of the first page.
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Classification
Computing & calculating, Digital computing, Paperwork & documentation
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Overall Dimensions
208 mm (Width), 1 mm (Depth), 340 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Computing, CSIRAC (Computer), First Generation Computers, Mainframe Computers, Making History - CSIRAC, Innovation & Design
