Computer History Museum

Rice University Computer Project materials

Item Details

Level of description
Folder
Date
1958-1971
Author
Rice University
Publisher
Rice University
Collection title
Edward Feustel collection on the Rice University Computer Project
Catalogue number
600000551

Reprint from the Rice Engineer, Fall 1967. Additional author on paper with last name of Bratton, first name unknown.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726203
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Final report for AEC Contract AT-(40-1)-2572, June 1, 1959 to March 31, 1970.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726204
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Two editions stapled together.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726205
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An epitaph for the R1 computer, printed by that computer just before it was shut down for the last time, May 24, 1971.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726206
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Polaroid photographs of the people who built and used the Rice R1 computer, pasted into an album. People pictured include: Walter Orvedahl, Martin Graham, Sigsby Rusk, Ruth Patterson, Kenneth Watson, Jim Peale, Joe Bighorse, Douglas Lee, Jane Jodeit, Mary Shaw, Jo. K. Mann, Forest Baskett III, Zevi Salsburg, Donald Stockwell, Dwayne Chesnut, George Carter, Sastry, Robert Curl, V. M. Rao, James Hodgeson, Ronald Sass, Won Bong Bang, Walter Hicks, Charles Bugg, Pearce, Don DuPre, Pat Groves, Earnest Sibert, Frank Tung, A. J. Welch, Gary Sitton, James Colthart, Pat Chappelear, Del Fussell, Anthony Blajez, Earnest Green, Sam Davis, Alan Jackman, Jim Henry, Jurgen Hinze, J. A. Robinson, Steve Darden, John Iliffe, Fred Miller, Jim Lawson, John Kilpatrick, Albert Yu, Chang Cheng Wu, Helen Seagrave, Alan Hoover, Lalu Mansinha, J. C. DeBremaecker, Glenn Fryer, Andre Chang, Vincent Reynard, and Harry A. Deans (missing label).

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726207
Portraits of Rice Computer Project personnel

Cover says "Do not remove from console." Various instructions and notes for testing and using the Rice R1 computer.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726208
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Describes the computer and how it is programmed, with appendices on the electronics used to implement the computer, a symbolic assembly program, and a sample program. Author not specified, but probably Martin H. Graham and Zevi W. Salsburg according to John K. Iliffe.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726209
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Collection of related memos with these titles: (unnumbered) AP1 - a basic assembly program; 1. Array manipulation and the algebraic formula language; 2. Preliminary notes on programming; 3. Some coding conventions, subroutines, and alterations in the order structure; 4. The elements of the Genie system; 5. An intermediate range assembly system; 6. Basic machine codes; (unnumbered) Notes on the Genie compiler for the Rice University computer; (unnumbered) AP1 - AP2 programming.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726210
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Reference manual for the Genie language, with information about runtime environment and related utility programs. Author not specified, but predominately Jane G. Jodeit according to John K. Iliffe.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726212
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Reference manual for the Rice R1 computer. Two copies. The one with "Rosenberg" on the cover has penciled corrections on several pages.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726213
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Reference manual for the SPIREL operating system and the assembly system (AP1, AP2, PLACER) for the Rice R1 computer. Originally bound with plastic comb binding.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726214
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Complete manual set for the Rice R1 computer, updated through July 1968. Originally in 3-ring binder labeled "PROGRAMMING STAFF COPY." With penciled corrections on some pages.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726215
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Reprint of paper published in Annual Review in Automatic Programming, Volume 2, edited by Richard Goodman, and published by Pergammon Press in 1961.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726217
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Reprint of paper published in The Computer Journal, Volume 5, Number 3.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726218
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Reprint of two papers published in Introduction to System Programming, edited by Peter Wegner, and published by Academic Press in 1964. Two copies.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726219
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Draft of paper.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726220
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Draft of paper published in Communications of the ACM, Volume 11, Number 11 (November 1968) pages 741-746.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726221
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Title page reads "This note describes the essential features of a Basic Machine, and indicates the main choices which remain to be made in designing a practical system."

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726223
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Title page reads "Methods of store management appropriate to machines with tagged addresses are described. It is shown how the information implicit in addresses can be used both by microprogram and system routines to achieve efficient use of register and primary storage."

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726224
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Program listings, and typed and handwritten design notes, flowcharts, etc. Includes root finders, base 2 exp and log, etc., polynomials, etc.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102726230
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