The historical development, and predicted state-of-the-art of the general-purpose digital computer
Charles P. Bourne, Donald F. Ford · 1960
Some of the important characteristics of all the general-purpose digital computers that have ever been built, or are in the process of being built, have been collected together in order to show the changes in performance and characteristics during the passage of time. These collected data, as well as information regarding recent development work, have been used to extrapolate the characteristics and performance figures into the 1960--1965 era. The report considers such characteristics as add and multiply times, memory characteristics, pulse repetition rates, and internal system parameters.