Books on Computer History
ableal: This 1982 textbook by Siewiorek, Bell and Newell seems to be available in HTML from Gordon Bell's pages at MS: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Computer...If memory serves, the book illustrated concepts by examining implementations. It's interesting to see how many bones have been moved from multi-ton mainframes to single chips ...P.S. At the very bottom of this page http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Pubs.htm, the book links include the above book and a similarly titled 1971 book (apparently an earlier version), which may be of historical interest. Page 280: core, drum and tape - Mel can't be far ...