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ELECTRONIC BUSINESS MACHINES. APPEL, RICHARD W., et al. Electronic Business Machines: A New Tool for Management. Boston: [for the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration], June, 1953.
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ELECTRONIC BUSINESS MACHINES.
APPEL, RICHARD W., et al. Electronic Business Machines: A New Tool for Management. Boston: [for the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration], June, 1953.
4to. [6], 63 ff. Library binding.
Provenance: Mathematisches Institut Darmstadt (inkstamp, spine label).
WITH: HARRISON, PAUL F. Electronic Computers and Possible Applications to Bank Accounting. [For the Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University], 1955. 4to. Numerous original banking forms laid in. Metal-strip binding in paper covers.
"PROBABLY THE FIRST PUBLISHED INDEPENDENT REPORT WRITTEN BY PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY ON THE APPLICATION OF ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS TO BUSINESS NEEDS" (OOC sale), being a Harvard M.B.A. thesis from 1953. "When this report was published, no electronic digital computer had been delivered to an American corporation (the first UNIVAC I delivered to a private rather than governmental customer was serial number 8, sold to General Electric in 1954) ... [This] report discusses the necessity of modifying both computers and business procedures to take advantage of the great computing power and speed offered by the new machines. Chapter VI, titled 'Business machines in 1970,' attempts to predict the future evolution of business machines 'as they relate to manufacturing companies, department stores, insurance companies, banks and public utilities' (p. 37)" (OOC). From Gutenberg to the Internet 10.4; Origins of Cyberspace 428.
Accompanied by an NYU thesis on COMPUTING AND BANKING from 1955. This thesis unknown in the literature.
4to. [6], 63 ff. Library binding.
Provenance: Mathematisches Institut Darmstadt (inkstamp, spine label).
WITH: HARRISON, PAUL F. Electronic Computers and Possible Applications to Bank Accounting. [For the Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University], 1955. 4to. Numerous original banking forms laid in. Metal-strip binding in paper covers.
"PROBABLY THE FIRST PUBLISHED INDEPENDENT REPORT WRITTEN BY PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY ON THE APPLICATION OF ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS TO BUSINESS NEEDS" (OOC sale), being a Harvard M.B.A. thesis from 1953. "When this report was published, no electronic digital computer had been delivered to an American corporation (the first UNIVAC I delivered to a private rather than governmental customer was serial number 8, sold to General Electric in 1954) ... [This] report discusses the necessity of modifying both computers and business procedures to take advantage of the great computing power and speed offered by the new machines. Chapter VI, titled 'Business machines in 1970,' attempts to predict the future evolution of business machines 'as they relate to manufacturing companies, department stores, insurance companies, banks and public utilities' (p. 37)" (OOC). From Gutenberg to the Internet 10.4; Origins of Cyberspace 428.
Accompanied by an NYU thesis on COMPUTING AND BANKING from 1955. This thesis unknown in the literature.

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