Coding techniques for failure recovery in a distributive modular memory organization
This paper considers various coding techniques which could be applied to a memory organization to achieve detection and correction of failures. In this discussion, we define a fault as a malfunction of a systems component and a failure as a manifestation of a fault. Notice that a single fault can result in multiple failures. Thus, techniques such as error-detecting and correction codes, when used alone, are limited in that they operate on failures---not faults.
Installation management: the next ten years
In this paper we will give our extrapolation of the exciting challenges facing installation managers in the coming years and how we expect to react to these challenges. We view the evolution to the present stage as having gone through three generations of installation management. The first generation was marked by the early computers with small memories and relatively crude input devices in which the operation of the computer was done mainly by the person using the computer. In this early generation the computer installation manager had the hardy pioneer spirit and knew most of his customers by first name. One of his main worries was how fast he could get the next model of the computer.
No. 1 ESS logic circuits and their application to the design of the central control
The central control is composed of thousands of relatively simple logic circuits, intricately interconnected to perform the primary data processing functions of the No. 1 electronic switching system. This paper discusses both the circuit development of the basic modules and their application to the logic design of some of the high-speed arithmetic circuits required in the central control. Special electrical design features, wiring rules, and circuit pack assignment procedures are also described.