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Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument
Arthur W. Burks, Herman H. Goldstine, John von Neumann
Brian Randell (eds.)
The Origins of Digital Computers, pages 399–413
Texts and Monographs in Computer Science
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
1982
Inasmuch as the completed device will be a general-purpose computing machine it should contain certain main organs relating to arithmetic, memory- storage, control and connection with the human operator. It is intended that the machine be fully automatic in character, i.e. independent of the human operator after the computation starts. A fuller discussion of the implications of this remark will be given in Chapter 3 below.
