Browsing Project Whirlwind Reports by Creator "Taylor, Norman H."

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    • Design and Construction Schedule, WWII Prototype 

      Kromer, A. P.; Mayer, Rollin P.; Taylor, Norman H. (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, ...

    • Interim Report 

      Rodgers, F. R.; Taylor, Norman H.; Sage Improvement Committee (Lincoln Laboratory - Division 6, 1956-08-10)
      Memo regarding 1956 interim report

    • Rudiments of Good Circuit Design 

      Taylor, Norman H. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-12-22)
      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 the tolerances of a circuit to its component variations, when ...

    • Time Schedule for WWII Computer 

      Taylor, Norman H.; Mayer, Rollin P. (MIT Digital Computer Laboratory, 1952-03-25)
      Memorandum outlining the plan to obtain a WWII computer in the minimum amount of time and gives the dates on which certain decisions must be reached.

    • Visit to the 1101 Computer 

      Taylor, Norman H. (MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory - ECD, 1951-07-11)
      A one day visit to ERA's 1101 System is discussed. The system seems to be very reliable and is in use 90-95% of the time scheduled. Marginal Checking is used with filament voltage as the method of voltage variation. This ...

    • Visit to University of Illinois and Engineering Research Associates 

      Forrester, Jay W.; Everett, R. R.; Taylor, Norman H. (MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory, 1951-01-22)
      Memorandum on a visit by project Whirlwind I research teams to University of Illinois and Engineering Research Associates for a demonstration of the IAS computer, discussion of ERA's computer experience and its relation ...

    • 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.