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    • Whirlwind I Trouble Shooting, Comments on Memorandum M-123 

      Forrester, Jay W. (MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory, 1947-10-28)
      Comments on Memorandum M-123 from Jay Forrester on Whirlwind I Trouble Shooting.

    • Whirlwind I: A High-Speed Electronic Digital Computer 

      Rathbone, R. R. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1951-08-15)
      This booklet gives a general description of the Whirlwind I digital computer developed at the Servomechanisms Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Project Whirlwind was initiated by the Office of Naval Research, ...

    • Whirlwind II Block Diagrams Meeting of April 8, 1952 

      Hosier, W. A. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-04-08)
      This note abstracts the discussion of the meeting attended by the following persons, for the benefit of any who may wish to trace the course of thought on the subject.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of April 11, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Mayer, Rollin P. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-04-21)
      Memorandum on the Whirlwind II meeting of April 11, 1952 on the activities of the various groups working on WWII.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of April 25, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Mayer, Rollin P.; Papian, William N. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-05-21)
      Memorandum summarizing the discussion of the Whirlwind II Meeting of April 25, 1952. Topics include engineering problems, general things being worked on, and the history of recent developments.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of April 4, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Mayer, Rollin P. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-04-09)
      Memorandum on the Whirlwind II meeting of April 4, 1952 on memory requirements, word length, and logical design versus reliability and speed.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of February 1, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-02-06)
      This note abstracts the discussion of the meeting attended by the following engineers. It is intended to provide a record to trace the evolution of the WWII system.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of February 15, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Mayer, Rollin P. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-02-26)
      This note abstracts the discussion of the meeting attended by the following engineers. It is intended to provide a record to trace the evolution of the WWII system.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of February 29, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Mayer, Rollin P. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-03-03)
      This note abstracts the discussion of the meeting attended by the following engineers. It is intended to provide a record to trace the evolution of the WWII system.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of February 8, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-02-18)
      This note abstracts the discussion of the meeting attended by the following engineers. It is intended to provide a record to trace the evolution of the WWII system.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of July 25, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Jeffrey, R. C. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-07-28)
      Work on magnetic circuits for logical applications was reviewed by H. Rising, R. Sims and G. Briggs.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of June 13th, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Mayer, Rollin P. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-08-08)
      Memorandum summarizing the discussion of the Whirlwind II Meeting of June 13, 1952 on a report by D. Eckl on transistor circuits and a report by W. Papian on the progress of the magnetic memory section.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of June 18, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Hosier, W. A. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-07-24)
      Memorandum summarizing the discussion of the Whirlwind II Meeting of June 18, 1952 to set forth such decisions and progress as has been made on the unnamed prototype computer, formerly referred to as WWIA, since christened ...

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of March 14, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Mayer, Rollin P. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-03-18)
      Memorandum on the Whirlwind II meeting of March 14, 1952 on a number of questions which remain to be settled before attempting to build a prototype computer.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of March 21, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Mayer, Rollin P. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-03-25)
      Memorandum on the Whirlwind II meeting of March 21, 1952 on different approaches to building the WWIA prototype computer.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of March 28, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Mayer, Rollin P. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-04-01)
      Memorandum on the Whirlwind II meeting of March 28, 1952 on D. Buck's non-destructive read-out and R. Mayer's single-time-pulse instruction system.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of March 7, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Mayer, Rollin P. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-03-10)
      Memorandum on the Whirlwind II meeting of March 7, 1952. Topics include the possibility of building a "passive" computer, static multipliers, static elements, ferro-electric switches, and symbols for ferro-magnetic circuits.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of May 16, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Hosier, W. A. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-05-23)
      Memorandum summarizing the discussion of the Whirlwind II Meeting of May 16, 1952. Topics include engineering problems with transistors and the history of recent developments.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of May 23, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Mayer, Rollin P. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-06-10)
      Memorandum summarizing the discussion of the Whirlwind II Meeting of May 23, 1952. Topics include miscellaneous news items, the new organization for the WWII effort, and the purposes of WWIA and methods of building it.

    • Whirlwind II Meeting of May 9, 1952 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Mayer, Rollin P. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-05-23)
      Memorandum summarizing the discussion of the Whirlwind II Meeting of May 9, 1952. Topics include engineering problems with transistors and the history of recent developments.