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    • 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.

    • Whittemore Building Guard Instruction 

      Proctor, John C. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-04-01)
      This memorandum is to be used by guards on duty in the Digital Computer Laboratory as a supplement to the Basic Guard Instructions for Hood-Whittemore.

    • WW1 Operating Speed 

      Mayer, Rollin P. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1951-12-21)
      Drawing SA-50304 (attached) shows much information which should help programmers calculate the speed of their programs, and which should be helpful to programmers and systems engineers in showing where to concentrate efforts ...

    • WWI general numbers 30,000 thru 35,639 

      Project Whirlwind Research Staff (2009-06-16)
      Log of WWI drawings numbered C-30000 through SA-35618.

    • WWI general numbers 35,640 thru 55,001 

      Project Whirlwind Research Staff (2009-06-16)
      Log of WWI drawings numbered A-35640 through D-55001.

    • WWI general numbers 55,002 thru 59,995 

      Project Whirlwind Research Staff (2009-06-16)
      Log of WWI drawings numbered B-55002 through SB-58106.

    • WWII Block Diagrams Meeting of April 10, 1952 

      Hosier, W. A. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-04-10)
      This note summarizes the discussion for the benefit of those who may wish to trace the development of thought on this subject.

    • WWII Block Diagrams Meeting of April 16-17, 1952 

      Hosier, W. A. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-04-28)
      This note summarizes the discussion at the above meetings for the benefit of those who may wish to trace the development of thought on the subject.