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Yes, No -- One, Zero: The Language of Electronic Computers
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Esso Standard, Humble Oil & Refining Company, 1958. Staplebound wraps. Very good. Staplebound wraps. 10 1/2" X 8". 15pp. Mild wear to staplebound printed wraps, with creasing to corners and light toning to rear wrap. Binding is sound. Pages are musty, but clean and unmarked. A delightful copy of this 1950s guide to computers ("sometimes called 'giant brains,' 'thinking machines,' or 'robots that think'") and the binary system prepared for classroom use by Esso Standard Oil, with a history of numbering systems as well as tricks, problems, and experiments, illustrated throughout in helpful diagrams and charming illustrations. As James Cortada writes in Second Bibliographic Guide to the HIstory of Computing, Computers, and the Information Processing Industry, Volume 2, "Publication of such a booklet as early as 1958 is indicative of the rapid spread of awareness of computers in the 1950s." It's additionally interesting that such a booklet would come to classrooms via an oil company, and that the booklet asks the question, "Will computers replace the human brain?
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Details
- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3209
- Title
- Yes, No -- One, Zero: The Language of Electronic Computers
- Format/Binding
- Staplebound wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Esso Standard, Humble Oil & Refining Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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