Calculators
Here are entered works on present-day calculators as well as on calculators and mechanical computers of pre-1945 vintage. Works on modern electronic computers first developed after 1945 are entered under Computers.
See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.
Broader terms:Related terms:Narrower term:Used for:- Adding-machines
- Calculating-machines
- Computers, Mechanical
- Desk calculators
- Mathematical machines (Calculators)
- Mechanical computers
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The Theory of Digital Handling of Non-Numerical Information and its Implications to Machine Economics (Zator Technical Bulletin #48; Boston: Zator Co., c1950), by Calvin N. Mooers (page images at HathiTrust)- Linear Computations (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1951), by Paul S. Dwyer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculation, ed. by E. M. Horsburgh (page images at Cornell)
- Computing Before Computers, ed. by William Aspray (PDF files at ed-thelen.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Computers- How Computers Work: Processor and Main Memory (c2009), by Roger Young (HTML, PDF, and Word at fastchip.net)
- Tools For Thought: The People and Ideas of the Next Computer Revolution (1985), by Howard Rheingold (HTML at rheingold.com)
- Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. (c2002), ed. by Jay W. Richards, contrib. by Ray Kurzweil, John R. Searle, Michael J. Denton, William A. Dembski, Thomas S. Ray, and George F. Gilder (at kurzweilai.net)
- Principles of Control Systems Engineering (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1960), by Vincent Del Toro and Sydney R. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Best of Creative Computing, ed. by David H. Ahl and Burchanel Green
- Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2008), ed. by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
- Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics and Chip Design (1998), by Electronic Frontier Foundation (HTML at cryptome.org and other sites)
- Computer Security Subsystem Interpretation of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (version 1, 1988), by National Computer Security Center (U.S.) (HTML at fas.org)
- A Guide to Understanding Discretionary Access Control in Trusted Systems (version 1, 1987), by Carole Jordan (HTML at fas.org)
- Cryptography and Data Security (Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley, c1982), by Dorothy Elizabeth Robling Denning (PDF at npos.edu)
- A Guide to Writing the Security Features User's Guide for Trusted Systems (version 1; 1991), by David M. Chizmadia (text at fas.org)
- Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), ed. by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
- Intrusion Detection Systems With Snort: Advanced IDS Techniques Using Snort, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and ACID (2003), by Rafeeq Ur Rehman (PDF at phptr.com)
- A Guide to Understanding Trusted Facility Management, by Virgil D. Gligor (HTML at fas.org)
- Rating Maintenance Phase Program Document, by Tommy Hammer (HTML at usmc.mil)
- Trusted UNIX Working Group (TRUSIX) Rationale for Selecting Access Control List Features for the UNIX System, by National Computer Security Center (U.S.) (HTML at usmc.mil)
- Electronic Computer Projects for Commodore and Atari Personal Computers (1986), by Soori Sivakumaran (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
- Computer Desktop Encyclopedia (electronic edition; regularly updated), ed. by Alan Freedman (at computerlanguage.com)
- B C, Before Computers: On Information Technology From Writing to the Age of Digital Data (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by S. E. Robertson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Computing Before Computers, ed. by William Aspray (PDF files at ed-thelen.org)
- The New Hacker's Dictionary (online version, aka the Jargon File), ed. by Eric S. Raymond (HTML with commentary at catb.org)
- Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (second edition, 2006; with link to wiki updates of 1999 edition), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at codev2.cc)
- Computerworld (partial serial archives)
- Journal of the ACM (partial serial archives)
- Creative Computing, ed. by David H. Ahl (partial serial archives)
- Compute! (partial serial archives)
- Giant Brains: or, Machines That Think (c1949), by Edmund Callis Berkeley (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst (c1995), by Stephen L. Talbott (HTML with commentary at netfuture.com)
- The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst (c1995), by Stephen L. Talbott (HTML with commentary at netfuture.com)
- Digital Divas: Putting the Wow Into Computing for Girls (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2016), by Julie Fisher, Catherine Lang, Annemieke Craig, and Helen Forgasz, contrib. by Amber McLeod
- Surplus Federal Computers for Schools: An Assessment of the Early Implementation of E.O. 12999, by Thomas Keith Glennan, Walter S. Baer, S. W. Purnell, Gwendolyn Farnsworth, and Gina Schuyler (PDF files at rand.org)
- Deep Lab (Pittsburgh: Deep Lab and the Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, 2014), by Addie Wagenknecht, Allison Burtch, Claire L. Evans, Denise Caruso, Harlo Holmes, Ingrid Burrington, Jillian C. York, Kate Crawford, Lindsay Howard, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Maddy Varner, Maral Pourkazemi, and Runa A. Sandvik (PDF with commentary at studioforcreativeinqury.org)
- Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design, ed. by C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, and John E. McNamara (illustrated HTML at Microsoft)
- Designing Computers and Digital Systems Using PDP 16 Register Transfer Modules, by C. Gordon Bell, John Grason, and Allen Newell (illustrated HTML at Microsoft)
- Elements of Programming (authors' edition; 2019), by Alexander A. Stepanov and Paul McJones (PDF files with commentary at elementsofprogramming.com)
- Scientific Programming and Computer Architecture (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Divakar Viswanath (illustrated HTML at github.io)
- Programming and Programming Languages (2016), by Shriram Krishnamurthi (HTML at Brown)
- How to Design Programs (second edition, c2014), by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, and Shriram Krishnamurthi (HTML at neu.edu)
- Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (version 2, 2014), by Allen Downey (multiple formats at Green Tea Press)
- Learn to Program Using Python (c2011), by Cody Jackson (PDF in Sweden)
- 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know (wiki version, ca. 2010), ed. by Kevlin Henney (HTML at oreilly.com)
- How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing (electronic version, 2002), by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, and Shriram Krishnamurthi (illustrated HTML with commentary at htdp.org)
- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist; Learning With Python (original edition (superseded by Think Python); c2002), by Allen Downey, Chris Meyers, and Jeffrey Elkner (multiple formats at Green Tea Press)
- Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation (c1999), by Neil D. Jones, Carsten K. Gomard, and Peter Sestoft (PDF and Postscript with commentary in Denmark)
- Computer Science Logo Style (second edition, 3 volumes; c1997), by Brian Harvey
- Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (c1992), by Peter Norvig (multiple formats with commentary at Github)
- Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (second edition, 2020), by Al Sweigart (illustrated HTML with commentary at automatetheboringstuff.com)
- Programming in Martin-Löf's Type Theory: An Introduction (c1990), by Bengt Nordström, Kent Petersson, and Jan M. Smith (PDF and Postscript in Sweden)
- How to Code in Python 3 (New York: DigitalOcean, ca. 2018), by Lisa Tagliaferri (PDF at digitalocean.com)
- Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (online edition, c2018), by Ben Lauwens and Allen Downey (HTML with commentary at githun.io)
- The Coder's Apprentice: Learning Programming with Python 3 (2017), by Pieter Spronck (PDF with commentary at spronck.net)
- A Little Smalltalk (c1987), by Timothy Budd (PDF at unibe.ch)
- Python 101 (c2017), by Michael Driscoll (illustrated HTML with commentary at pythonlibrary.org)
- Learning J: An Introduction to the J Programming Language (revised 2015), by Roger Stokes (HTML at jsoftware.com)
- The Nature of Code (c2012), by Daniel Shiffman, ed. by Shannon Fry, illust. by Zannah Marsh (illustrated HTML with commentary at natureofcode.com)
- The Craft of Programming (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, et al.: Prentice-Hall International, c1981), by John C. Reynolds (PDF at CMU)
- Matters Computational: Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code (prepublication version, 2011), by Jörg Arndt (PDF and other formats at jjj.de)
- Introduction to Computer Science using Java (2018), by Bradley Kjell (illustrated HTML at programmedlessons.org)
- COBOL: A Self-Instructional Manual (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by James A. Saxon (page images at HathiTrust)
- Communicating Sequential Processes, by C. A. R. Hoare (PDF with commentary at usingcsp.com)
- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: C++ Version, by Allen Downey (multiple formats at Green Tea Press)
- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Think Java, by Allen Downey (multiple formats at Green Tea Press)
- Larch: Languages and Tools for Formal Specification, ed. by John V. Guttag and James J. Horning (Postscript at MIT)
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (second edition, 1996, with supporting materials), by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman, contrib. by Alan J. Perlis (HTML at MIT Press)
- Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration, ed. by Allen Cypher (illustrated HTML at acypher.com)
- Certified Programming with Dependent Types (latest electronic edition), by Adam Chlipala (PDF and HTML with commentary at chlipala.net)
- Études for Elixir, ed. by J. David Eisenberg (HTML and other files at Github)
- Programming From the Ground Up, by Jonathan Bartlett, ed. by Dominick Bruno
- Scala Book (free online edition), by Alvin Alexander (multiple formats with commentary at alvinalexander.com)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.