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UNIVAC. [ECKERT, J. PRESPER, AND JOHN MAUCHLY.] UNIVAC Summary Report. Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. Chapters 1-4. (Cover title.) [Philadelphia]: Prepared by Machine Development Laboratory, National Applied Mathematics Laboratories, National Bureau of Standards, [1948].
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UNIVAC.
[ECKERT, J. PRESPER, AND JOHN MAUCHLY.] UNIVAC Summary Report. Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. Chapters 1-4. (Cover title.) [Philadelphia]: Prepared by Machine Development Laboratory, National Applied Mathematics Laboratories, National Bureau of Standards, [1948].
4to. Reproduced typescript. [1], 28 ff. Stapled blue paper covers.
WITH: "UNIVAC Instructions Code C-7," being an update to Chapter 3 of the above work. 9 pp.
Mild sunning and handling marks, several neat pencil annotations.
UNIVAC SUMMARY REPORT: A PROSPECTUS AND USER'S MANUAL FOR ONE OF THE FIRST SALES OF A DIGITAL COMPUTER. This report was "prepared by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation ... and transmitted to the National Bureau of Standards in November 1947" (foreword). EMCC had entered into a contract with NBS in September of 1946 to develop a new computer for the Census Bureau, being only their second commercial computer, following EDSAC for the U.S. Army. The Introduction describes this new product with evident pride: "The UNIVAC is a general-purpose automatic sequence machine capable of accepting large quantities of digital information at relatively high rates, of performing on such information any specified set of operations, even though these may be extremely complicated, and of recording the desired results, all entirely automatically ... A salient characteristic of the UNIVAC is its flexibility and versatility" (pp 1ff).
The timing and nature of this report suggest that it may have been prepared or used in connection with the flawed "assessment" of computing systems by the National Research Council's "Subcommittee Z on High Speed Computing." See Stern From ENIAC to UNIVAC (1981), pp 107ff.
Chapter 3 (Codes) describes the machine's instruction coding systems and units of the UNIVAC involved. It provides a full set of "The C-6 Instruction Code" for programming the system, which is updated in the accompanying mimeograph "UNIVAC Instructions Code C-7."
Extremely rare. We locate no copies in the auction records and the only institutional copy we have identified is at Dartmouth College, as part of the papers of George Stibitz, a member of Subcommittee Z.
4to. Reproduced typescript. [1], 28 ff. Stapled blue paper covers.
WITH: "UNIVAC Instructions Code C-7," being an update to Chapter 3 of the above work. 9 pp.
Mild sunning and handling marks, several neat pencil annotations.
UNIVAC SUMMARY REPORT: A PROSPECTUS AND USER'S MANUAL FOR ONE OF THE FIRST SALES OF A DIGITAL COMPUTER. This report was "prepared by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation ... and transmitted to the National Bureau of Standards in November 1947" (foreword). EMCC had entered into a contract with NBS in September of 1946 to develop a new computer for the Census Bureau, being only their second commercial computer, following EDSAC for the U.S. Army. The Introduction describes this new product with evident pride: "The UNIVAC is a general-purpose automatic sequence machine capable of accepting large quantities of digital information at relatively high rates, of performing on such information any specified set of operations, even though these may be extremely complicated, and of recording the desired results, all entirely automatically ... A salient characteristic of the UNIVAC is its flexibility and versatility" (pp 1ff).
The timing and nature of this report suggest that it may have been prepared or used in connection with the flawed "assessment" of computing systems by the National Research Council's "Subcommittee Z on High Speed Computing." See Stern From ENIAC to UNIVAC (1981), pp 107ff.
Chapter 3 (Codes) describes the machine's instruction coding systems and units of the UNIVAC involved. It provides a full set of "The C-6 Instruction Code" for programming the system, which is updated in the accompanying mimeograph "UNIVAC Instructions Code C-7."
Extremely rare. We locate no copies in the auction records and the only institutional copy we have identified is at Dartmouth College, as part of the papers of George Stibitz, a member of Subcommittee Z.