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The 1946 Mark 1 (ASCC) manual by Howard Aiken, Grace Murray Hopper, et al, has to be the first one which:

  • Is a technical manual, for a digital machine, which was actually manufactured (only one ever was made, but that's more than the zero actually made of whatever machine the Lovelace/Menabrea paper(s) might have been useful on, a full mechanical computer capable of executing the ideas in the papers never fully existed.)

  • Contains instructions for programmers, starting at page 98.

  • Pages before that have a lot of design information in the preface, and hardware data.

PDF is online here.

The 1946 Mark 1 (ASCC) manual by Howard Aiken, Grace Murray Hopper, et al, has to be the first one which:

  • Is a technical manual, for a digital machine, which was actually manufactured (only one ever was made, but that's more than the zero actually made of whatever the Lovelace/Menabrea paper(s))

  • Contains instructions for programmers, starting at page 98.

  • Pages before that have a lot of design information in the preface, and hardware data.

PDF is online here.

The 1946 Mark 1 (ASCC) manual by Howard Aiken, Grace Murray Hopper, et al, has to be the first one which:

  • Is a technical manual, for a digital machine, which was actually manufactured (only one ever was made, but that's more than the zero actually made of whatever machine the Lovelace/Menabrea paper(s) might have been useful on, a full mechanical computer capable of executing the ideas in the papers never fully existed.)

  • Contains instructions for programmers, starting at page 98.

  • Pages before that have a lot of design information in the preface, and hardware data.

PDF is online here.

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Warren P
  • 321
  • 1
  • 5

The 1946 Mark 1 (ASCC) manual by Howard Aiken, Grace Murray Hopper, et al, has to be the first one which:

  • Is a technical manual, for a digital machine, which was actually manufactured (only one ever was made, but that's more than the zero actually made of whatever the Lovelace/Menabrea paper(s))

  • Contains instructions for programmers, starting at page 98.

  • Pages before that have a lot of design information in the preface, and hardware data.

PDF is online here.