Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Servomechanisms Laboratory

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Memo M-919. Roster of staff and non-staff Electronic Computer Division personnel. Includes: staff, D.I.C. staff and professors, research assistants and associates, non-staff, secretaries, receptionists, foremen, and administrative assistants, technicians, laboratory assistants, and machinists, draftsmen and print clerks, guards, stock clerks, laboratory helpers, and janitors, part-time students, and thesis students.

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Memo M-894. Roster of staff and non-staff Electronic Computer Division personnel. Includes: non-staff, secretaries, receptionists, foremen, and administrative assistants, technicians, laboratory assistants, and machinists, draftsmen and print clerks, guards, stock clerks, laboratory helpers, and janitors, and part-time students. Includes pages 2-3 of Memo M-894.

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Memo M-1223. Roster of staff and non-staff Electronic Computer Division personnel. Includes: D.I.C. staff, academic staff, non-staff, secretaries, receptionists, foremen, administrative assistants, technicians, laboratory assistants, machinists, part-time students, draftsmen, print clerks, photographer, guards, stock clerks, lab. helpers, matron, cleaners, and summary. Also includes page 3 of Memo M-1207.

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Memo M-1272. Roster of staff and non-staff Electronic Computer Division personnel. Includes: D.I.C. staff, academic staff, non-staff, secretaries, receptionists, foremen, administrative assistants, draftsmen, print clerks, photographer, part-time students, thesis student, technicians, laboratory assistants, machinists, guards, stock clerks, lab. helpers, matron, cleaners, and summary.

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Memo M-1062. Roster of staff and non-staff Electronic Computer Division personnel. Includes: staff, D.I.C. staff and professors, research assistants and associates, non-staff, secretaries, receptionists, foremen, administrative assistants, technicians, laboratory assistants, machinists, draftsmen, print clerks, photographer, guards, stock clerks, lab. helpers, matron, cleaners, and part-time students.

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Memo M-1095. Roster of staff and non-staff Electronic Computer Division personnel. Includes: staff, D.I.C. staff and professors, research assistants and associates, non-staff, secretaries, receptionists, foremen, administrative assistants, technicians, laboratory assistants, machinists, and part-time students. Contains page 1-2 of Memo M-1095.

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Memo M-870. Roster of staff and non-staff Electronic Computer Division personnel. Includes: staff [name], non-staff [name], room number, and thesis students.

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Memo M-935. Roster of staff and non-staff Electronic Computer Division personnel. Includes: staff, D.I.C. staff and professors, research assistants and associates, non-staff, secretaries, receptionists, foremen, and administrative assistants, technicians, laboratory assistants, and machinists, draftsmen and print clerks, guards, stock clerks, laboratory helpers, and janitors, part-time students, and thesis students.

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Project Whirlwind Memo M-1172. Memorandum listing Electronic Computer Division Personnel of the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory.

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Project Whirlwind Memo M-935. Memorandum listing Electronic Computer Division Personnel of the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory.

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Project Whirlwind Memo M-902. Memorandum listing Electronic Computer Division Personnel of the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory.

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Project Whirlwind Memo M-919. Memorandum listing Electronic Computer Division Personnel of the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory.

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Project Whirlwind Memo M-848. Memorandum listing Electronic Computer Division Personnel of the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory.

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Project Whirlwind Memo M-1207. Memorandum listing Electronic Computer Division Personnel of the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory.

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Project Whirlwind Memo M-1133. Memorandum listing Electronic Computer Division Personnel of the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory.

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Project Whirlwind Memo M-1105. Memorandum listing Electronic Computer Division Personnel of the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory.

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Memo A-3. Administrative memorandum from project Whirlwind research teams on temporary staff assignments.

Scope and Contents MIT DIC 6673. Project Whirlwind Report R-189. Project Whirlwind Collection, MC665. As part of an investigation of possible future forms of air traffic control, an analysis is made of orbital motion around an Omni-Range DME station. It is assumed that each aircraft would be assigned an azimuth-vs-time schedule, and that maintenance of the schedule would be by path variation: reduction of radius when behind schedule and increase of radius when ahead of schedule. In order to estimate...

Scope and Contents MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Report R-194. In high-speed digital computers, particularly those to be used for control of physical systems, vacuum-tube reliability is an important consideration. In such computers, one would like to measure the average time between failures in days or weeks rather than hours. Since there are thousands of components in such machines that can fail and cause operational failures, the average life of these components should be at least several tens of thousands...

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Memo M-1087. This is a report of the first meeting of the planning committee for the IRE-AIEE Conference on Electron Tubes for Digital Computers.

Scope and Contents MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Limited Memo L-3. Many plans are now being considered for the military use of information systems built around electronic digital computers. Such systems appear unique in their ability to process and evaluate information sufficiently rapidly for modern high-speed military operations. The advantages gained when digital information systems make possible the better integration and more effective use of other military equipment should more than justify the...

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Engineering Note E-140. Abstract of an engineering report on Gas-Discharge Gaps for Data Storage in Electronic Computers.

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Division 6 Limited Memo 6L-292. Minutes of weekly group leader meeting discussing Colorado Springs, bright tube 3, and model shop services. Present: R. R. Everett, N. H. Taylor, J. A. Arnow, D. R. Brown, W. J. Canty, C L. Corderman, N. L. Daggett, S. H. Dodd, R. S. Fallows, C. W. Fair, J. F. Jacobs, B. E. Morriss, J. A. O'Brien, W. N. Papian, J. C. Proctor, E. S. Rich, and C. A. Zraket.

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Project Whirlwind Memo M-830. Master's Thesis Research proposal on High-Speed Gas Discharge Gaps for Data Storage in Electronic Computers.

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Memo M-170. Memorandum containing a subjective index to Project Whirlwind Publications.

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Limited Memo L-11. Report answering questions on Whirlwind I as requested by Lt. Cmdr. Rubel of the Research and Development Board under Office of Naval Research Contract N5ori-60.

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Limited Memo L-2. Report discussing in general terms some possibilities in the arrangement and use of high-speed digital computers for the for the analysis, evaluation and intercommunication of information in an anti-submarine naval group.

Scope and Contents MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Report R-195. Following preliminary tests of the individual Whirlwind electrostatic-storage tubes, 16 tubes were installed in a bank in the Whirlwind computer. This thesis report describes the initial testing of the bank as a system, first without and then with the main control circuits of the computer. Because it has had only limited distribution, it is being issued as a Project Whirlwind R-series report. The author wishes to express his sincere appreciation...

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MIT DIC 6345. Project Whirlwind Memo M-295. Memorandum on a visit by project Whirlwind I research teams to investigate 7AK7 processing at the Sylvania Radio-Tube Plant at Emporium, Pa., March 2, 1948.

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MIT DIC 6673. Project Whirlwind Limited Memo L-26. Letter to Nathaniel McLean Sage on funds needed to extend the capacity of the Whirlwind computer to demonstrate its capabilities for handling low flying aircraft requiring the processing of information from many radar sets.