The Early History of Computer Design: Charles Sanders Peirce and Marquand's Logical Machines

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AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET WITH GOOGLE TITLE SEARCH. Photocopied pages Sent to George Mason University in year 2007. John saved the original for his own library, and it was in boxes of John's saved papers, John marked it on his list "CR" meaning Comparison Paper to save for use by future students. The original is a publishers offprint, and it has two appendices not sent with the shipment to GMU, this is a better version of the document and should go into Box 95 Folder 17 and whatever is there should be thrown out. This offprint is very nice. It is a different reprint from the one sent to GMU. This one saved at home by John has a paper cover on which is printed the title of the journal: "The Princeton University Library Chronicle" and the source of the document: "Extracted From Volume XLV. Number 3, Spring, 1984. the pagination is 187-211, Appendix A 303-307, Appendix B 165-170. John had this material stored in his PEIRCE NOTEBINDERS This folder holds an article by Ketner based on the Allan Marquand Papers. Another related article by Ketner is also in Warfield Special Collection, it is titled "Peirce and Turing: Comparisons and Conjectures" John feels that together these two Ketner papers "pretty much prove that Peirce was the real founder of the digital computer."

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