Universal high-speed digital computers: serial computing circuits
F.C. Williams, A.A. Robinson, Tom Kilburn · Proceedings of the IEE - Part II Power Engineering · 1952
Recent proposals for the construction of universal high-speed digital computing machines have led to a demand for computing circuits for use in such machines. The paper discusses circuits for use with numbers expressed in serial binary form. Special reference is made to a machine in which the storage of binary numbers is achieved by the use of charge-patterns on the screens of cathode-ray tubes.