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Project Grind Meeting of July 1, 1953 (Fifth Day)
(MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-07-06)
This meeting concerned crosstelling, output drums, output links, digital information display, maintenance console and mechanical design. Details on the output links must be decided soon because many people outside of the ...
Project Grind Meeting of July 15, 1953 (Seventh Day)
(Lincoln Laboratory - Division 6, 1953-08-13)
Topics discussed at this meeting were mapper subcontracts, cross-telling, review of the drums, card and paper tape machines, input counters, manual inputs, and power supplies. It was generally agreed that paper tape will ...
Project Grind Meeting of June 26, 1953 (Third Day)
(MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-06-29)
The magnetic drums were discussed at this meeting. There will be 6 fields per physical drum, and probably five physical drums per computer.
Project Grind Meeting of July 2, 1953 (Sixth Day)
(MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-07-08)
This meeting concerned standard circuits and the action of the standards committee. Four tube types were definitely approved and it was decided that O.1µsec pules will be used wherever possible in the system. It was generally ...
Project Grind Meeting of June 30, 1953 (Fourth Day)
(MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-07-06)
The output display system and the manual input buffer drum were discussed at this meeting. A display rate of once every 2 seconds was tentatively accepted. There will be 16 words per track,** allowing for a display of ...
Project Grind Meeting of June 25, 1953 (Second Day)
(MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-06-29)
At this meeting marginal checking, power supplies and magnetic memory were discussed. It was generally agreed that more work remains to be done on marginal checking and power supplies before decisions can be made, and that ...
Project Grind Meeting of June 24, 1953 (First Day)
(MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-06-29)
At this meeting slowed down video inputs, video mappers, and slowed down video input registers were discussed. A general description for the input registers was agreed upon.
Design and Construction Schedule, WWII Prototype
(MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-12-11)
The present schedule for the development of the first prototype model of WWII calls for the urgent decisions concerning specifications and block diagrams to be made early in 1953 so that time will be available to procure, ...