We Built Our Own Computers, School Mathematics Project Handbooks (S.M.P. Handbooks)

This is not just another computer book for it contains recipes for computers written in language which any intelligent teen or high schooler can understand. This book starts with the description of a simple game which can be analyized so that a computer made of match boxes can play it. At first the computer is a complete novice but it learns so well from experience that it is soon difficult to beat. Th second and fourth chapters explain symbolic logic and binary arithmetic; the third and fifth chapters explain what a relay is, present two relay-operated computers which solve logical and arithmetical problems and demonstrate the fundamental similarities of the operations involved. Chapters nine and ten deal with analog computers and with programing