*[Technology] Designer of the First American Commercial Computer, J. Presper Eckert's Corrected Copy of a Speech on Computing

"...new thoughts have been coming in much more slowly in the last 10 years than they did in the first 10 years of computers, we are not yet at a plateau..."

Denver, Colorado, March 23, 1967. 17 leaves. Typescript speech, on rectos only. Each sheet, 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (292 x 216 mm). Titled, "The Computer - A Bridge From Nanoseconds to Seconds", given by J. Presper Eckert, Vice President of UNIVAC, a Division of the Sperry Rand Corporation, at a meeting of the Mile High Chapter Data Processing Management Association. Annotated throughout in pencil and in ink, with notes and emendations. Lightly creased; scattered light ink stains; Old paperclip at top left, with associated stains; small closed tear to right margin of last page.

Computer pioneer J. Presper Eckert's corrected copy of a 1967 speech given before a chapter of the Data Processing Management Association.

Eckert (1919-1995), along with physicist John Mauchly (1907-1980), developed the first general purpose computer in 1945 (ENIAC). The two worked together on subsequent integrations of the invention including the BINAC and UNIVAC I. Together they founded the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation which was fundamental in developing key computer concepts such as nesting, subroutines, and stored programming. Their work would contribute to the worldwide explosion of technological advancements in computing in the late 1940s and early 1950s. However, they soon fell on hard economic times, and the company was sold to Remington Rand, who later merged with the Sperry Corporation, forming Sperry Rand.

A fascinating piece of technological history from one of the fathers of computer engineering.

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*[Technology] Designer of the First American Commercial Computer, J. Presper Eckert's Corrected Copy of a Speech on Computing

*[Technology] Designer of the First American Commercial Computer, J. Presper Eckert's Corrected Copy of a Speech on Computing

[Technology] Designer of the First American Commercial Computer, J. Presper Eckert's Corrected Copy of a Speech on Computing*

[Technology] Designer of the First American Commercial Computer, J. Presper Eckert's Corrected Copy of a Speech on Computing*