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Electronic computers

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335 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1966

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Stuart Havelock (S.H.) Hollingdale

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July 17, 2025
Este libro, por asombroso que parezca, era de obligada lectura y aprendizaje en la carrera de Medicina para aprobar una asignatura corta, colateral, pero muy dura, con un catedrático muy latoso, como lo eran muchos en tiempos de Franco: la "Electroradiología y Terapéutica física".
Entonces uno había de aprenderse desde que, en España, aunque el agua corriente no abundaba, sí había muchas fuentes de agua mineral. De eso se pasaba a los rayos infrarrojos, lodos y demás, cosa que jamás he practicado, y finalmente a aprender algo sobre ordenadores cuando aún me altaría 15 años para poseer mi propio PC. Este libro no era malo pero en aquellos tiempos felizmente idos, los alumnos teníamos otras cosas qué aprender más urgentes.
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February 5, 2021
Good history of the early development of computers, though did get a bit lost in the middle
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January 6, 2015
For me this was relentlessly technical in the middle, and for those sections may as well have been written in chinese, but what small amount I did understand elsewhere was very courteously explained and generously diagrammed - fitting the remit of the pelican series. For the layman, the introductory chapters about the history of counting technology (eventually machines proper) will be good food for thought alone.
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