Digital Computer Fundamentals

by Litton Industries

In 1960, the Technical Training Group of Litton Systems Data Systems Division prepared to teach digital computer systems courses to armed service technicians and engineers. These personnel had average electronic backgrounds, but little or no experience on digital equipment. Hence, time had to be allocated to teach the fundamentals of computer systems. However, no single basic text existed that covered all areas of digital computer systems. Available texts were written to a graduate engineer's level and described only a few phases of the digital field. To fill this gap the technical training group compiled a set of notes based on several sources and on their own experience. This set of notes became a Litton training document called Digital Computer Fundamentals, and from that document this book evolved.

224 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1965

Reviews

[Jake · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this here: https://archive.org/details/DigitalCo...

I started reading it because I saw Robert Baruch sharing some of the illustrations from it online. There is no one author of this book, having been written by what appears to be a team of people, meant to educate professionals with some electronics experience in computers. I just want to start off by saying that the illustrations in the text are incredible that the text so brilliantly describes concepts that my modern textbooks could not match.

I really recommend chapter 8 and 9 specifically where they cover memory and ALU.