Project Whirlwind: Recent submissions

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    • Laboratory Personnel 

      Digital Computer Laboratory Administrative Staff (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-07-01)
      Memorandum listing Laboratory Personnel of the MIT Digital Computer Laboratory.

    • Readout and Digit-Plane Driving Systems - P.B. No. 62 

      Canty, W.; Fine, S. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-05-28)
      This note contains a survey of the existing readout and digit-plane driving systems as well as a survey of some of the more promising new systems that are proposed. Preliminary block diagrams with weak and strong points ...

    • 6889 Air Defense Bi-weekly, January 18, 1952 

      Digital Computer Laboratory Administrative Staff (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-01-18)
      Bi-weekly progress report of Digital Computer Laboratory research teams.

    • Components for XD-1 

      Watt, C. W. (Lincoln Laboratory - Division 6, 1953-08-11)
      Memorandum on procurement of components for the XD-1.

    • IBM - MIT Memory Conference of September 9, 1953 

      Papian, W. N. (Lincoln Laboratory - Division 6, 1953-09-11)
      Joint IBM-MIT meeting were held at MIT on the 8th and 9th of September to discuss the XD-1 internal memory. This memorandum lists people involved, items on which a common point of view was reached, and unsettled questions.

    • Block Diagrams: Memory Address Register and Memory Buffer Register 

      Mayer, Rollin P.; Papian, William N. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-04-27)
      This note is meant to satisfy item 1 (General Description of Function Needed) of the WWII Time Schedule for this subject.

    • Planning, Scheduling and Administering the AN/FSQ-7 Program: Approval of Schedule Changes (Supplement to M-2300) 

      Forrester, Jay W. (Lincoln Laboratory - Division 6, 1953-07-15)
      This memorandum outlines procedures for the approval of schedule changes.

    • Readout-Noise Reduction in a Magnetic-Core Memory 

      Fine, Saul (MIT Department of Electrical Engineering, 1953-07-23)
      Master's Thesis Research Proposal on Readout-Noise Reduction in a Magnetic-Core Memory. The problem for this thesis is the analysis of unwanted signals occurring during the readout of a magnetic-core memory plane and the ...

    • Meeting on Packaging of Whirlwind II, Hartford, Connecticut, May 21, 1953 

      Ayer, William H. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-05-27)
      Memorandum on the meeting on packaging of Whirlwind II, Hartford, Connecticut, May 21, 1953. Topics include a review of planning considerations, logical break-down into pluggable units, logical break-down into frames, and ...

    • Summary of Magnetic-Core Memory Meeting Held April 24th, 1953 

      Edwards, N. P.; Papian, W. N. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-04-29)
      A resume of the WWII areas expected to be covered during the next few months in the work of the magnetic-core memory "sections" of MIT and IBM follows. It was discussed at a meeting on the 24th of April attended by D. R. ...

    • Group 63 Seminar on Magnetism, LV 

      Loeb, Arthur L.; Menyuk, Norman (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-06-24)
      This memo is a summary of a Group 63 seminar on magnetism. Topics include magnetic properties of ferrite materials, the non-linearity of the inverse susceptibility in the paramagnetic region, and the relation of interaction ...

    • Group 62 Section Leaders Meeting-- AN/FSQ-7 Equipment Design Program 

      Mayer, Rollin P. (Lincoln Laboratory - Division 6, 1953-10-13)
      Two situations urgently need attention at the present time. The vacuum tube count for a central has become rather large, and every effort should be made to see what can be done to reduce the count. The space required for ...

    • Group 63 Seminar on Magnetism, LII 

      Loeb, Arthur L.; Menyuk, Norman (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-05-29)
      This memo is a summary of a Group 63 seminar on magnetism. Topics include the variation of the spontaneous magnetization in the region of absolute zero temperature.

    • MIT-IBM Project High Central Standards Committee Activities and Meeting Schedule 

      Watt, C. W. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-06-15)
      Memorandum on the establishment of a Joint Central Standards Committee for the purpose of giving final approval to the standards sheets issued by the sub-committees, and of deciding the scope and priorities of the various ...

    • Trip to Linde Corporation, Tonawanda, New York, August 17, 1953, to Discuss Growth and Procurement of Ferrite Single Crystals 

      Buck, Dudley A. (Lincoln Laboratory - Division 6, 1953-09-08)
      The Linde Corporation is growing ferrite single crystals by the Verneuil process. They are of interest to this laboratory for basic studies of the switching mechanism of ferrites.

    • Testing the Magnetic-Core Memory System in a Computer 

      Widrow, B. (Lincoln Laboratory - Division 6, 1953-09-18)
      A working memory has a "safe" operating region in a multidimensional space whose coordinates consist of the significant operating parameters of the memory. Errors occur only with excursions of the operating point outside ...

    • WWII Memory Address Selection Systems - P. B. No. 62 

      Mitchell, J. L. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-05-06)
      This note contains a survey of the existing memory-address selection systems as well as a survey of some of the more promising new systems that have been proposed.

    • Trip to RCA Victor, Camden, October 22, 1953 

      Vinal, Francis E. (Lincoln Laboratory - Division 6, 1953-10-28)
      Review of the progress in memory core production at RCA Victor in Camden is encouraging but considerable stabilization remains to be accomplished in the process, particularly in the pressing and firing operations. Particular ...

    • Magnetic-Core Matrix Switch Driver (X & Y Plane Driver). PB 18 

      Shansky, D. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-06-05)
      This memo offers preliminary specifications for a magnetic-core matrix switch driver and offers tentative schematic diagrams.

    • 6889 Air Defense Bi-weekly, January 4, 1952 

      Digital Computer Laboratory Administrative Staff (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-01-04)
      Bi-weekly progress report of Digital Computer Laboratory research teams.