Student notes for Applied Math 218, Large Scale Calculating Machinery, 1953.

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Student notes for Applied Math 218, Large Scale Calculating Machinery, 1953.

Notes taken by Caxton Foster in Conrad Aiken's Applied Math 218, Large Scale Calculating Machinery, a course concentrating on the Mark I relay computer. Foster prefixed the handwritten notes and diagrams with a three-page essay in January 1989. The essay includes details about the course and describes the times and the environment in which it was taught.

1 v. (looseleaf) ; 29 cm.

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