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UNIVAC.
Programming for the Univac System. [Remington Rand: January 1953.]

4 June 2014, 13:00 EDT
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UNIVAC.

Programming for the Univac System. [Remington Rand: January 1953.]
4to. [8], 249 pp. With 3 charts in back pocket. Original blue cloth. Mild shelfwear, light sunning to spine.
Provenance: Saul Gorn, 1912-1992, Moore School professor in Computer Science (ownership inscription to f.f.e.).

EXTREMELY RARE UNIVAC PROGRAMMING MANUAL, being the first revision of the Programming Manual dated March 23, 1951. The text not only provides detailed instructions but also practice exercises for the reader. We locate no copies of this or any earlier UNIVAC Programming Manual in auction records. This rarity is consistent with its provenance. Saul Gorn was at B.R.L. from 1951-1955 and joined the Moore School in 1955. In 1957 he became the first director of the University of Pennsylvania Computer Center which used a very early UNIVAC I. He was a "central figure in the philosophy of computer language design" (Lee Computer Pioneers p 342).

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