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1951/04- Radio-Electronics, "How an Electric Brain Works Part VII" by Edmund BerkeleyTags
Edmund C. Berkeley, Radio-ElectronicsDescription
Part IV Continuation from Mar 1951
The article “How an Electric Brain Works” by Edmund Berkeley, published from Nov 1950 to May 1951 of Radio-Electronics, delves into the operations of Simon, a relay-based electromechanical computer. Berkeley’s piece is part of a series that explains the principles of digital computing to a general audience. Simon, despite its simplicity and limited memory, was designed to demonstrate the concept of a digital computer and could perform basic arithmetic operations.