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Pricey but a great insight into Early Computer Development Jan 08, 2009
By T. J. Sawyer
Harry Huskey was a key player in the construction of several of the first digital computers. His book reveals the human side of life on the leading edge of this technology in the 1940s and 1950s. As an example, we read eight pages about his year in England during 1947. He gives us insight into what it might have been like to work for Alan Turing at Teddington and Huskey's visits to Wilkes at Cambridge and Williams at Manchester. But he also gives us an insight into postwar rationing and the experience of an American's reaction to kippers and English toast.
My only complaint is that the book is too short. It hits the highlights as the eight pages on Huskey's time in England demonstrates. There are only 51 lines in the chapter devoted to the Bendix G-15. I'd have loved 51 pages.
Still, this book reveals far more about one pioneer and the circumstances surrounding early computer development than any other book that deals with the subject.
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