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Rudiments of Good Circuit Design

Taylor, N. H. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-05-19)

Circuits which depend on the absolute stability and reproducibility of components have proved to be unreliable and often impractical for field use. A study of tolerances of a circuit to its component variations, when made ...

Ferrites Speed Digital Computers

Brown, David R.; Albers-Schoenberg, Ernst (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 2009-06-10)

Memory units and matrix switches using new square-loop ferrite material increase speed and reliability of digital computers. Storage units with arbitrary-access and read-out time of five microseconds or less makes ...

Air Traffic Control

Israel, D. R. (MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory, 1950-06-08)

Report on progress of a Maser of Science Thesis: The Application of a High-Speed Digital Computer to the Present Day Air Traffic Control System.

The Digital Computer Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Digital Computer Laboratory Staff (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1953-10-01)

This report provides an overview of the Digital Computer Laboratory at MIT. It includes information about the history of the laboratory, the Whirlwind I computer, the laboratory program, the people, and the atmosphere of ...

Error Correction in Orbital Flight

Orden, Alexander (MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory, 1950-06-13)

As part of an investigation of possible future forms of air traffic control, an analysis is made of orbital motion around an Omni-Range DME station. It is assumed that each aircraft would be assigned an azimuth-vs-time ...

Initial Testing of a Computer Electrostatic Storage System

Read, Richard Willard (MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory, 1951-04-23)

Following preliminary tests of the individual Whirlwind electrostatic-storage tubes, 16 tubes were installed in a bank in the Whirlwind computer. This thesis report describes the initial testing of the bank as a system, ...

Selected Descriptive Material Whirlwind I Computer: General

Adams, C. W. (MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory - ECD, 1950-11-10)

This cover contains a selection of diagrams and memorandums from the reports that have been written about the Whirlwind I electronic computer. This material has been assembled for general reference use by people interested ...

Study of a System for Following a Flight Progress Schedule

Linvill, William K. (MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory, 1950-08-01)

A schedule-following system for an airplane is a servomechanism. By use of conventional design techniques the system can be made to operate successfully up to the limits of the fixed part of the system, which is the airplane ...

Experience with Receiving-Type Vacuum Tubes on the Whirlwind Computer Project

Rich, Edwin S. (MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory, 1950-12-12)

In high-speed digital computers, particularly those to be used for control of physical systems, vacuum-tube reliability is an important consideration. In such computers, one would like to measure the average time between ...

Programming for Whirlwind I

Saxenian, Hrand (MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory - ECD, 1951-06-11)

The Whirlwind I computer, WWI, at MIT is a high-speed electronic digital computer. It will be used in a wide variety of applications involving computations for mathematical and engineering problems, accounting, statistical ...

Selected Descriptive Material Whirlwind I Computer: Introduction to Coding

Adams, C. W. (MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory - ECD, 1950-11-10)

This cover contains a selection of diagrams and memorandums from the reports that have been written about the Whirlwind I electronic computer. This material has been assembled for general reference use by people interested ...