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Documents  1. Introduction:First, on this page are links to 'Articles of the Month' stories written by our contributors which are too large to reasonably fit on a topical web page. Second are books, most found in various libraries which also contain tidbits about the ERA to UNIVAC to UNISYS or to LMCO MS2 heritage. Third are magazine and journal articles which contain bits or bytes of the ERA to UNISYS or ERA to LMCO MS2 history. |  On this page, scroll to:
- Introduction
- Downloadable Legacy Documents
- Published Books
- Magazine Articles
The Legacy Committee welcomes inputs of other books and/or magazine articles which mention computers or systems devleoped by ERA, UNIVAC, UNISYS, etc.  You may need to download and install the *.pdf readers for these documents.
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2. Downloadable Legacy Documents
3. Published Books Each of the following books mentions ERA or UNIVAC or Sperry while discussing computer history aspects. | Year | Title | Author | Publisher | Notes | | 1950 | High Speed Computing Devices | Engineering Research Associates, Inc. | McGraw-Hill | 1983 Reprint Series for the History of Computing by Tomash Publishers | | 1960 | A History of Sperry Rand Corporation | Staff | Sperry Rand Publications Department | | | 1964 | Case Study of the Development of the Naval Tactical Data Systems | R. W. Graf, Research Associate | United Research Inc., Cambridge, MA | | | 1979 | From Dits to Bits | Herman Lukoff | Robotics Press | | | 1986 | Engineering Research Associates, The wellspring of Minnesota's computer industry | Communications Department, St. Paul Minnesota | Sperry | In commemoration of ERA's 40th anniversary | | 1987 | A Few Good Men from UNIVAC | David E. Lundstrom | MIT Press; Cambridge, MA | 1997 re-print by Replica Books; Bridgewater, NJ | | 1987 | When Computers Went to Sea - The Digitization of the United States Navy | Capt. David L. Boslaugh | IEEE Press Order #BP00024 | | | 1996 | Computer: A History of the Information Machine | Martin Cambell-Kelly and William Aspray | Basic Books | | | 2005 | Computers and Commerce: A study of Technology and Management at Eckert Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946-1957 | Dr. A. L. Norberg, Retired CBI Director | MIT Press | | | 2008 | Unisys Computers: An Introductory History
You may order this book at http://www.lulu.com/content/2735927 .
| by George T. Gray and Ronald Q. Smith
| | The companies that are encompassed within Unisys were among the pioneers in the field. They rank just behind IBM in the impact they had in the early years of the computer industry. Unisys was formed in 1986 by the merger of Burroughs and Sperry, two companies that had themselves grown through acquisitions and mergers. The first two U.S. companies to build a computer, Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and Engineering Research Associates, were both acquired by Remington Rand Corporation (in 1950 and 1951) which, in turn, merged with Sperry in 1956 to become Sperry Rand Corporation. In 1956 Burroughs added to its own computer development efforts by acquiring Electrodata Corporation whose Datatron computer line became the company’s principal computer product. This heritage of innovative design was carried on into the Sperry, Burroughs, and Unisys computers developed in the last three decades of the 20th century. |
4. Magazine Articles IEEE Annals of the History of computing, Volume 29 Number 4 October-December 2007 - Arthur Norberg, the Charles Babbage Institute, and the History of Computing. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 28 Number 3 July-September 2006 - MESM and the Beginning of the Computer Era in the Soviet Union and Strela-1, the First Soviet Computer: Political Success and Technological Failure. {Editor's note: Their first stored program computer went into service in December, 1951 - designed by Lebedev from Kiev.} - IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 25, Number 2, April – June 2003 - Before the Burroughs B5000,
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 23, No. 1, January-March 2001 - Sperry Rand’s Third-Generation Computers,
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 20, No. 3, Sperry Rand’s Transistor Computers, July-September 1998
- Minnesota Monthly as “Original Geeks”, with text by Jim Lenfestey and Photos by Erik More, July 2005
From "The Link", Bulletin of the National Cryptologic Museum Foundation, Inc. Volume 4, Number 1 - Spring 2001 ATLAS AND THE EARLY DAYS OF COMPUTERS By Harlan Snyder, LCDR USNR, Ret. [submitted by Don Weidenbach]
VIP Page 15 updated 23 July, 2008
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