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The New Yorker Magazine, October 19 1963, complete issue in exceptional shape. Charles Saxon did the cover. This issue includes an extensive feature on the history of electronic computers & acknowledgement to the men who have contributed to the development of the machines. The elements embodied in the modern computer were envisioned by the English mathematician & inventor Charles Babbage, who, in the 19th century drew up a detailed design for a machine to be called Analytical Engine. Tells about the earliest computers: the Vannevar Bush's analogue calculator; the Mark 1, the ENIAC, the EDVAC, the EDSAC, UNIVAC the I. A. S. Takes us through the development of the programming language FORTRAN. Approximate comparisons between computer characteristics, & characteristics of the human brain, and about a new computer, the Preceptron, which can be partly destroyed without damage to its learning operation. The machine utilizes new paths among the remaining associators much as a damaged brain does when it begins to recover its function. Gives a picture of the proliferation and application of computers. Computers are already being used to design other computers, and it's quite possible that the future generations of machines, which have been designed by machines...may be beyond our complete understanding. This is part two of a two-part feature started in the previous issue, which we are also listing right now. The pages are crisp and clean, bright white without a hint of foxing or any other staining, no writing, nothing missing, tight to the staples. Strictly graded Very Fine, with a small corner crease on the back cover otherwise as-new; it is in extraordinary shape, almost untouched since new, put away when brand new (along with many others we have) by an obsessive New Yorker collector from whom we acquired it, untouched since new until now. We have many other beautiful New Yorkers online now so please take a look.
