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© by PhiloPhax & Lauftext & Redaktion Lohberg
Kybernetik - Was ist das?

First printed in Germany: 1963

Electronic brains

No electronic brains

Beasts Made of Wires and Switches | Game-Playing | Mice, Bugs, Tortoises and foxes | Speed | How Computers Began

Information

Bits | Graphics

The Concise language

Punched Information | Output Units

Multiplication is Vexation

Gates and Flip-Flops | The Transistor Age | Codes | Negaters | Adding by Computer | Storage | The Beat | Multiplying | Code Tests | Calculation Methods | Binary Addition | Subtracting Binarily

Every Memory is Magnetic

Storages | Access Time | Magnetic Drums | Ring Cores | Addresses | Flip-Flops for Storage | Blocks | Disc Storage

The Music Box

Automatic Program Controls | Sub-Programs | Programming a Payroll | Instructions | Index Registers | Variations Between Machines | Instruction Unit

Successful Programming

Numbers in parentheses | The jump instruction | Frequently used commands | The language is simple | Seven nines | Flow chart

Poets and Thinkers

Effects on Aircraft | Filters | Heuristic Trial and Error | The Monte Carlo Test | Brainwork and Logic | A Chess Automaton | Thinking Programs | Dealing with Words | No Dukes Are Green

Learning by Success

The Mouse and the Cheese | Nine Men's Morris | Demand for Computer Programs | Feed-Backs | Checking by Computer | Medical Diagnosis

Miniature Brains for Home

Computers Built to Fit Your Purse | Automated Shopping | Airline Ticketing and Scheduling | Automation vs. Unions | Traffic Computing | A Small Computer of Your Own

Afraid of the Big Bad Robot

The Electronic Revolution | More Leisure Ahead | Production Checks | Dangers Ahead | Utopia

Science of Cybernetics

Mechanical Man Grows Up | Human vs. Electronic Brains

Contacts / imprint

Datenschutz

Cybernetic Computer and Electronic Brain

The fascinating story of how computers work in clear, non-mathematical language