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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:

  1.  Introduction
  2.  Downloadable Legacy Documents 
  3.  Published Books
  4.  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.

 

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2. Downloadable Legacy Documents  
Month WhatMonthWhat
Sept. 08 A History of UNIVAC Magnetic Tape Plating Facility by Douglas C. Wendall Jr.   Aug. 08Environmental Test Laboratory by Paul Welshinger and Bob Keenan 
July 08 Another Computer Was Born by Curt Christensen.  June 08 

Jack Sater's ATC overview slides from LMCO Brown Bag presentation on May 7th. 

May 08

Canadian Patrol Frigate by Dennis Abbott 

 April 08 

Plated Wire Memory Usage on the UNIVAC Minuteman Weapon System Computer by Larry D. Bolton, Clinton D. Crosby, and James A. Howe  

March 08

A Gaggle of Geeks by James P. Lenfestey, prologue by Lowell Benson 

 Feb. 08 

Carbon Heat Trapping:  Merely a Bit Player in Global Warming by Dick Petschauer  

Jan. 08

Glen Hambleton's World Wide Career  

 Dec. 07 

Dick Lundgren's European Business articles from the 2007 VIP Club newsletters

Nov. 07

Harvey Taipale explains Legacy 

 Oct. 07 

Larry Bolton's Vendor Surveilance Notebook 

Sept. 07

The Fred Hargesheimer Story by Ed Nelson, et al.  

 Aug. 07 

Networking by John Nemanich  

July 07

David Andersen's 'Invention of Voice Mail

 
 June 07 

CPF, UYK-43, & UYK-44 contract wins 

May 07

Sperry Military Computers by George Gray 

  April 07

Apollo Computers from Don Mager 


3. Published Books
Each of the following books mentions ERA or UNIVAC or Sperry while discussing computer history aspects.
 YearTitleAuthor PublisherNotes
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  StaffSperry 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]
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