Title
SSEC paper publication records
Catalog Number
102734210
Type
Document
Description
This folder includes a paper about the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) written by McPherson in 1948, which was not printed until 1982 when it was included in the Annals of the History of Computing. Also included are correspondence between McPherson and the Annals about the paper, articles and correspondence from the 1960s about the SSEC and its applications for weather prediction and tracking the moon, and W. J. Eckert's 1967 IBM research report "The Motion of the Moon." Includes "A large-scale, general-purpose electronic digital calculator"
Date
1948; 1962-1965; 1982
Author
McPherson, John C.; Eckert, W. J.; Hamilton, Frank E.; Seeber, Robert R.
Category
Article; Technical Paper or Note; Correspondence
Collection Title
John C. McPherson collection
Series Title
Technical papers and articles
Credit
Gift of Ray Polivka