From dits to bits
by Herman Lukoff · first published 1979
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If you don't already know about it, you might be interested in "From Dits to Bits", the autobiography of Herman Lukoff, an engineer who worked with Eckert and Mauchly. It's hard to find these days, but a competent university library may have a copy (where I read it). This ref may…
on “Why do color TVs make black and white snow?” ↗Also, if you're interested in that sort of thing, the book "From Dits to Bits" by Herman Lukoff is a good read from an engineer in the trenches. Seems that it's now available on the Internet Archive: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4436586M/From_dits_to_bits
on “The Mothers of the Mother of All Demos” ↗I recently read a fascinating book I found in the library by an engineer who worked under Mauchly and Eckert and talks about working on ENIAC, BINAC, EDVAC, LARC, and UNIVAC. The book is "From Dits to Bits" by Herman Lukoff.
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