Series 5:
Eckert-Mauchly Corporation
Grace Murray Hopper Collection
NMAH.AC.0324
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Series 5: Eckert-Mauchly Corporation, 1949 - 1965
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Coding of a LaPlace Boundary Value Problem for the UNIVAC by Frances
E. Snyder (=Betty Holberton) and Hubert M. Livingston. Reprinted from
MATHEMATICAL TABLES AND OTHER AIDS TO COMPUTATION, III, Number
25, January, 1949, pages 341-350.
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Program of Association for Computing Machinery: Oak Ridge, Tennessee April
18, 19, 20, 1949. Sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge
Institute of Nuclear Studies, Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation,
Fairchild Corporation, NEPA Division: includes Grace Hopper's pen and pencil
notes; job hunting time for her -offers she was made. Mark II Manual; 38 x 38
matrix in 59 1/2 hours included complete checking.
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BINAC INSTRUCTIONS by Grace Hopper, 7/20/49
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Report A-MP-3B on BINAC, 8/1/49; by AAK (Arthur A. Katz)
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Topic List for Numerical Analysis, 8/1/49. Report A-TC-2B by HFMjr (Herbert F.
Mitchell, Jr.)
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Matrix Algebra on the BINAC 8/10/49. Report A-230-2B and A-240-3B bu HFMjr
(Herbert F Mitchell, Jr.) 5 pages; a copy of the original (wet copy process of the
time) first attempt at matrix operations on the BINAC.
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Demonstration problem flowchart, 8/15/49 (16 1/2 x 22") by MKL (Margery K.
League); a copy of the original (wet copy process of the time) looks somewhat
like a ditto.
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Matrix Inversion Routine for the BINAC, 9/23/49. Report A-240-3B by Herbert
F. Mitchell, Jr.; 4 typed pages. P. 5 is a table for symbol position in the coding,
p. 6 and 7 are flowcharts Matrix Inversion I and II drawn by Helen M. Diehl at
Mitchell's direction.
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Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation List of Personnel, October 24, 1949. 7
pages original ditto copy also 1 xerox copy -1970 vintage (1 copy by wet copy
process -1950 vintage).
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Two Year's Work in Five Minutes: That's what BINAC can do! The story of
this newest electronic brain" is a report on progress of Philadelphia's newest
industry." Reprint from the October, 1949, issue of PHILADELPHIA Magazine; 3
pages, xerox copy of same.
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Grace Hopper's first code card for BINAC (3 x 5 card about 1949, in yellow
envelope).
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Invitation by The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation "to attend a
demonstration of the new electronic binary automatic computer BINAC": with
space to write in person invited and date; 1949, 3 copies (one in an envelope)
also 2 xerox pages of the invitation.
Series 5: Eckert-Mauchly Corporation
Grace Murray Hopper Collection
NMAH.AC.0324
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The BINAC: A Product of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. Copyright
1949 by Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation; 8 page pamphlet on the BINAC
(to be given to people attending the demonstrations?)
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Mechanical Brains: An entirely new class of high-speed automatic computing
machines, with rudimentary organs of memory, judgment, and mathematical
logic, points to the second industrial revolution By Louis N. Ridenour. Reprinted
from Fortune Magazine. Copyright 1949 TIME Inc. (4 pages, including title page
photographs: plugboards of ENIAC, A Mercury Memory Organ).
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An Introduction to The UNIVAC System. The information herein is not for
publication, and is to be held confidential. Return to Eckert-Mauchly Computer
Corporation, Broad and Spring Garden Streets Philadelphia 23, PA.
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Table of Computers, c. 1949 (17 x 11") by Grace Murray Hopper. Lists: Agency,
Type, Memory Type, Registers, Number System, Decimal Point, Multiply Time,
Input, Output, Matrix, Computers: Mark I (ASCC), Bell Relay, ENIAC, Mark II,
BINAC, Mark III, Whirlwind I, Hurricane, Maniac, EDVAC, and UNIVAC.
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Demonstration Problem for BINAC, 3/11/49. Report A -X -3: Section A collates
octal-coded decimal quantities Section B converts these quantities to binary
notation, computes, and reconverts computed quantities to octal-coded decimal
notation.
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Proposed 7 pulse code for UNIVAC with odd checking pulse, 5/6/49. Code C-10
by F.E.S. (Frances Elizabeth Snyder)
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UNIVAC Instructions code C-10 5/6/49, by F.E.S. (Frances Elizabeth Snyder)
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UNIVAC Instructions Code C-10 by F.E.S. (Frances Elizabeth Snyder), 6 May
1949.
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UNIVAC Instructions C-10, 6/10/49, by F.E.S. (Frances Elizabeth Snyder). 6
pages first page stamped "Second Draft", GMH initial at top of first page pencil
corrections, pages 1, 2, 3, 4, page 6: Code C-10 Times in Minor Cycles 8/31/49
by FES
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Matrix Multiplication Routine for the BINAC, 9/23/49. Report 230-2b (same as
A-230-2B) by HFMjr (Herbert F. Mitchell, Jr.) 21 pages. Pages 1-6 report, 7-9
Tables I to III, 10-11 Explanation of Symbols, 12 table of symbols for coding
purposes, 13 Flowchart for Matrix Multiplication drawn by HD (Helen Diehl), 14
Flowchart for Conversion of [C]n,m into [CHI]n,2n, 15-21 coding.
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ADDENDUM The Barber-Colman Computer: Properties as of September 22,
1949, Barber-Colman Co., Rockford, Ill. 8-95(70 Edition of September 28, 1949
by E.C.B., 3 pages. Note: "A study model of the computer has been actually
operating under test since May, 1949.Ó
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UNIVAC Instruction Code C-10, 1/27/50 by FES (Frances Elizabeth Snyder), 15
pages: p. 11, Additional Information for Code C-10; p. 14, Pulse Code (2 copies,
one initialed G. M. Hopper on pages 1, 11, and 14).