Wed Nov 17 06:38:10 2010 UTClccn-nr94-247961.001.00nr 94024796oca03653194aEckert, J. Presper(John Presper),1919-Eckert, John Presper,1919-lccn-nr92-25520Mauchly, John W.(John William)1907-1980lccn-n80-8767Moore School of Electrical Engineeringlccn-nr92-25521Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (Philadelphia, Pa.)lccn-n50-21202Von Neumann, John1903-1957lccn-n81-16971Remington Rand, Inclccn-nr94-2786Brainerd, John G.(John Grist)1904-1988lccn-n80-46170Goldstine, Herman H.(Herman Heine)1913-2004lccn-n84-151450Atanasoff, John V.(John Vincent)lccn-n79-142877International Business Machines Corporationlccn-n82-137038Engineering Research AssociatesEckert, J. Presper(John Presper)1919-Eckert, J. Presper(John Presper)1919-600United States.--Office of Naval ResearchBusiness enterprisesComputers--Law and legislationComputer softwareBerry, Clifford Edward,--1918-1963United States.--NavySperry CorporationWhirlwind computerComputer programmingAiken, Howard H.--1900-1973PatentsU.S. Army Ballistic Research LaboratorySolid state electronicsUnited States.--Army.--Ordnance DeptNorris, William C.,--1911-2006General Electric CompanyBurroughs CorporationSperry UnivacNational Cash Register CompanyRadio Corporation of AmericaResearch, IndustrialPatent suitsControl Data CorporationSperry Rand Corporation.--Univac DivisionLukoff, HermanComputer storage devicesUnited States.--National Bureau of StandardsHoneywell IncElectronic data processingEngineering Research AssociatesSperry Rand CorporationInternational Business Machines CorporationAtanasoff, John V.Brainerd, John G.--1904-1988Computer engineeringUnivac computerEDVAC (Computer)Remington Rand, IncVon Neumann, John,--1903-1957Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (Philadelphia, Pa.)Moore School of Electrical EngineeringAudiobooksComputersElectronic digital computersEckert, J. Presper--1919-HistoryComputer industryMauchly, John W.--1907-1980ENIAC (Computer)United States1919194519471949195019771999200020101710634672mixd39400111ocn082432994sw082432994:lccn-nr94-24796Falsebook1950Eckert, J. Presper111ocn081174202sw081174202:lccn-nr94-24796Falsebook1949Auerbach, Isaac L111ocn078752581sw078752581:lccn-nr94-24796Falsebook1945111ocn063307028sw063307028:lccn-nr94-24796Falsemixd1.00Eckert, J. Presper

Eckert briefly describes his education in electrical engineering as preface to his discussion about the design and construction of the ENIAC, EDVAC, and BINAC computers. He describes the evolution of the ENIAC from improvements on a differential analyzer at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, the Army's need for quick and accurate calculations and its funding of the project. Eckert provides technical information about the early design of the ENIAC and discusses the decision to use vacuum tubes. He outlines criticisms about possible statistical errors and the large number of vacuum tubes the ENIAC used and describes the contribution of the Radio Corporation of America in advice for the use of components, especially vacuum tubes.

111ocn063297207sw063297207:lccn-nr94-24796Falsemixd1.00Eckert, J. Presper

The interviewees describe their experiences at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering in the 1940s. Eckert outlines disputes he and John Mauchly had with the University administration over the assignment of patent rights to the ENIAC, and disputes over other issues with John G. Brainerd, the first director of the ENIAC project. Eckert and McNulty share their views on John von Neumann's influence on the ENIAC and EDVAC projects. The group discusses the Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand litigation and the judgement against Eckert and Mauchly's patent claim to the electronic digital computer. They uniformly dispute the court's finding in favor of John V. Atanasoff's contribution.

111ocn063289531sw063289531:lccn-nr94-24796Falsemixd1.00Eckert, J. Presper

Eckert discusses the development of the ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania and the interaction of the personnel at the Moore School. He describes the difficulty in securing patent rights for the ENIAC and the problems posed by John G. Brainerd, the first director of the project, and by the circulation of John von Neumann's 1945 First Draft of the Report on EDVAC, which placed the ENIAC inventions in the public domain. Eckert claims that von Neumann had an interest in keeping these ideas from becoming patented, and deaccentuates von Neumann's role in the development of the EDVAC. Eckert also discusses the ethical questions that were raised by the corporate funding of the University of Pennsylvania's computer research.

20201ocn043440758sw043440758:lccn-nr94-24796Falsercrd19990.35McCartney, Scott

Based on original interviews with surviving participants and the first study of John Mauchly and Presper Eckert's personal papers, ENIAC recounts the invention of the world's first programmable computer.

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The story of what happened to the inventor, John Mauchly, as the huge potential of his invention gradually dawned on those around him - from its triumphant unveiling and first successful operations to the crushing blow of being stripped of its patent.

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The collection includes the plaintiff's and defendants' trial exhibits presented in the patent case of Honeywell Incorporated vs. Sperry Rand Corporation and Illinois Scientific Developments, Incorporated. The plaintiff's trial exhibit series contains documents that supported the major claims of Honeywell Incorporated in their suit. It contains correspondence, research notes, scientific and publicity articles, schematic drawings, photographs and charts. There is large amount of documentation regarding the research and development of the ENIAC and subsequent computers developed by J. Presper Eckert, Jr., and John W. Mauchly up to around 1951. Most of the material covering the period after 1950 relates to the Sperry Rand's efforts to finalize the patent for the ENIAC and to assert its rights to the major technological claims therein (to support Honeywell's claims of antitrust actions).

111ocn666377915sw040534855:lccn-nr94-24796Falsercrd20100.53McCartney, Scott

Based on original interviews with surviving participants and the first study of John Mauchly and Presper Eckert's personal papers, ENIAC recounts the invention of the world's first programmable computer.

111ocn164039114sw164039114:lccn-nr94-24796Falsemixd1947Auerbach, Isaac L

Isaac Auerbach began his report by noting developments in analog computing beginning in the late 19th century. Particular attention was focused on Vannevar Bush's differential analyzer. He then explored the advantages of digital computing and explained the basic elements of computational theory as they were understood in the late 1940s. Auerbach's final section surveyed current projects at research institutions (Harvard Computation Laboratory, Iowa State College, National Bureau of Standards, Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, and MIT) and at commercial firms (Electronic Control Company, Engineering Research Associates, IBM, Raytheon, Eastman Kodak, and Bell Laboratories). Aeurbach concluded his report by analyzing the commercial market for electronic digital computers.

111ocn122516058sw122516058:lccn-nr94-24796FalsemixdSperry Rand Corporation

The ERA records include correspondence, technical reports and memoranda, minutes of the administrative, manufacturing, planning and engineering committees which describe work on the LARC, ERA 1101 and 1103, the Rapid Selector, and the bore hole camera. There are also records documenting ERA's involvement with the U.S. missle and rocketry programs of the late 1950s. ERA's successful effort to build airborne computers for the Jupiter and Sparrow programs are described.

111ocn122503543sw122503543:lccn-nr94-24796FalsemixdSperry Rand Corporation

The Honeywell-Sperry Rand lawsuit produced 50,000 pages of trial transcript, and over 36,000 documents were entered in evidence. Sperry Rand's lawyers produced a huge archive of trial documents. Two major files were created, the "Original file" of documents from Sperry Rand's own archives, and the "Chronological file" of all documents located during the discovery process and entered as exhibits. The trial archive is a major source on the history of the computer industry.

111ocn086134166sw086134166:lccn-nr94-24796FalsemixdSperry Corporation

The Engineering Dept. records include the files of J. P. Eckert, who was department head from 1953 to 1964 and those of Herman Lukoff who led the department from 1965 to 1975. The files describe the development of the Livermore Automatic Research Calculator (LARC) that was completed during the late 1950s and the early 1960s. This project, undertaken in conjunction with the Atomic Energy Commission's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, proved to be a tremendous drain on the company's resources. Sperry Rand wound up losing $19 million on the project which was twenty-seven months behind schedule when it was finally completed in 1961. Despite the fact that only two machines were sold, the LARC did make significant contributions to the development of computer technology. The engineers at Sperry were convinced their experiences with the LARC enabled them to build a much more powerful UNIVAC III than would have otherwise been possible.

111ocn086123668sw086123668:lccn-nr94-24796FalsemixdSperry Rand Corporation

The papers of Sperry Univac's executive officers describe the history of the company during the 1960s, a period during which it steadily lost market share to IBM. The correspondence of President R.E. McDonald and Vice Presidents F.R. Raach and G.H. Geick documents corporate strategy, organization changes, technological innovation, and sales policies.

111ocn086119288sw086119288:lccn-nr94-24796FalsemixdInternational Business Machines Corporation

There are a total of 361 oral history interviews bound in 8 volumes. The volumes were compiled by Caroline C. Coppola in 1987 and 1991. One volume contains summaries of 151 interviews conducted by Pugh pertaining to the first two books. There are transcripts of 125 actual interviews in 4 volumes pertaining to IBM's EARLY COMPUTERS and 85 interviews in 3 volumes pertaining to IBM's 360 AND EARLY 370 SYSTEMS. These last two series include a short synopsis of subjects covered in each interview. The volumes contain material that was omitted from the books.

111ocn086119163sw086119163:lccn-nr94-24796FalsemixdSperry Corporation

The technical document series describes thirty-five years of research and development (1946-1975) at Sperry's Univac Division. The file is arranged chronologically and documents the development of the company's major computer systems. There are progress reports and technical descriptions for the UNIVAC I, II, III, the File Computer, the 100 series, the LARC, the 490, and the solid-state systems of the 1960s and 1970s. This series also includes the records of the St. Paul, Minnesota, technical operating group (1958-1959) which describes Sperry's work with the Defense Department on the Nike-Zeus project. In addition, there are reports from the Norwalk Laboratory and the Sperry Research Center (Sudbury, Massachusetts) which document research on the computer applications of lasers, radar, and microwave.

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The earliest items in this collection are several photographs of the Atanasoff computer which were evidence used in a Honeywell, Inc.-Sperry Rand Corp. lawsuit. The majority of photographs document about thirty years of research and development at Sperry's Univac Division and one of its predecessor companies, Eckert Mauchly Computer Corp. The files are arranged by products and subjects and include images of the company's major computer systems. There are pictures of the ENIAC (1945-1946); BINAC, the first programmable computer (1949); UNIVAC I, II, III (1951-1960) which include 19 small, identified photos of UNIVAC I taken by John W. Mauchly himself in 1950; the 1100 series of scientific computers (1953-1962); the LARC (Livermore Automatic Research Calculator) (1960); the 490/491/494 (real time computer systems) and the solid state systems of the 1960s and 1970s. In addition there are over 200 photos of different kinds of punched card equipment (including sorters, tabulators, verifiers, collators including some made by the Powers Accounting Machine Company, computer peripherals (including printers and magnetic and paper tape converters) and computer components (control panels, chassis, magnetic and core memories, circuit boards, ferractors). This collection also includes views of different offices (Birmingham, Ala.; Dallas; Washington, etc.); labs (including the St. Paul, Minn., physics and electronic engineering research groups); and personnel from the Eckert Mauchly Computer Corp.

111ocn063289955sw063289955:lccn-nr94-24796Falsemixd1.00Auerbach, Isaac L

Auerbach begins by discussing friction between himself and J. Presper Eckert and his reasons for leaving Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. He recounts the circumstances leading to his employment from 1949 to 1957 with the Burroughs Corporation, his relations with Irven Travis, who headed the computer department at Burroughs, and the formation of the Burroughs Research Laboratory.

111ocn063289537sw063289537:lccn-nr94-24796Falsemixd1.00Burks, Arthur W

Burks describes his work on the ENIAC and Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) computers. He reviews his upbringing, education, and work experiences (mainly teaching) before joining the University of Pennsylvania Moore School of Electrical Engineering in 1941. He then discusses his associations with J. Presper Eckert, John Mauchly, John Brainerd, Herman Goldstine, and others and their work at the Moore School. Various aspects of the ENIAC project are discussed in detail: interactions of project members, division of tasks, decision making processes, patenting issues, initial operation, and von Neumann's association with the Moore School and the ENIAC and EDVAC projects.

111ocn063288500sw063288500:lccn-nr94-24796Falsemixd1.00Mauchly, John W

Mauchly describes his involvement with the ENIAC and EDVAC computers in this interview. Mauchly explains how his work in the 1930s on weather statistics led him to experiment with electronic calculating devices, and how this became an active project when he joined the Moore School of Engineering faculty in 1941. Mauchly recounts his early conversations with J. Presper Eckert on the feasibility of replacing electromechanical relays with thousands of vacuum tubes. He then turns to the Army's funding of the ENIAC computer for use in preparing firing tables, and the important role of Herman Goldstine in securing funding.

111ocn063288477sw063288477:lccn-nr94-24796Falsemixd1.00Hill, John L

The interview primarily concerns Hill's years at Engineering Research Associates (ERA), but his formative years, employment at Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), and later employment with Ramsey Engineering are also included. In the first part of the interview, Hill discusses his family his story and education in electronics, primarily at Rochester Institute of Technology. He then discusses his employment, including work with 3M from 1934-1946. Hill reviews his work at ERA by discussing: tape splicing activities, the Goldberg project, development of magnetic recording, the Demon project, the Atlas project, and interactions with Navy personnel.

111ocn063287864sw063287864:lccn-nr94-24796Falsemixd1.00Honeywell, inc

Copies of the plaintiff's exhibits, the trial transcript, some depositions and corresponding exhibits, photographs, motion pictures, and Larson's written conclusion. Nearly all of the exhibits are photocopies, and most date before 1953. A complete trial transcript is available on microfiche, as well as separate key-word indexes to the transcript and exhibits. The collection contains information about the ENIAC and the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, individuals associated with their development, activities at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering (University of Pennsylvania), computers such as the EDVAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC, the involvement of government agencies, and general information about the early computer industry, especially Honeywell, Remington Rand, Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, IBM, Raytheon, RCA, General Electric, NCR, and Burroughs.

111ocn063283020sw063283020:lccn-nr94-24796Falsemixd1.00Burks, Arthur W

Burks begins the interview discussing his early education and his training at the University of Michigan and the Moore School of Electrical Engineering. He describes his work with John Mauchly, Herman Goldstine, John Grist Brainerd, and J. Presper Eckert on the ENIAC in detail. Much of the interview is devoted to aspects of the EDVAC and ENIAC computers: logical and arithmetical design, attitudes of project staff, early operations, demonstrations., and contributions of consultants, notably John Vincent Atanasoff and John von Neumann. Burks recounts his work on the Institute for Advanced Study computer project, especially his work with Goldstine and von Neumann.

111ocn063282999sw063282999:lccn-nr94-24796Falsemixd1.00Mullaney, Frank C

Mullaney begins by describing his early life, electrical engineering education, radar work in World War II with General Electric, and sonar work with the Navy. He discusses the various projects to which he was assigned at ERA, especially the Atlas (ERA 1101) computer. Other topic include: the ERA 1102 and ERA 1103 computers, John L. Hill, the acquisition of ERA by Remington Rand, J. Presper Eckert, and the formation of CDC.

111ocn063276353sw063276353:lccn-nr94-24796Falsemixd1.00Chambers, Carl

Chambers discusses the initiation and progress of the ENIAC project at the Moore School. He recalls the conditions under which John Mauchly, one of the ENIAC designer's, came to the Moore School in 1941, Mauchly's 1943 proposal to the Army for a computer project, the National Defense Research Committee's initial denial of funds because of its commitment to analog computing, and the start of the project six months later. Chambers describes the interactions among the ENIAC staff, and focuses on the personalities and working relationships of Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. He recounts their conflicts with project director John Grist Brainerd, and the commercial interests they first envisioned in 1944.

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