(1) The BINAC. A product of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp . Reproduced typescript, stapled. 8 sheets, including full-page illustration. N.p.: Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp, 1949. 282 x 218 mm. -- (2) "The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation cordially invites [in ms.: Mr. Ralph E. Mullendore] to attend a demonstration of the new electronic binary automatic computer BINAC on [in ms.: Tuesday, Aug. 23,] 1949 at two-thirty P.M. daylight saving time." N.p, 1949. Provenance : Ralph E. Mullendore. (1) THE SALES BROCHURE FOR THE FIRST STORED-PROGRAM ELECTRONIC COMPUTER PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES, AND THE FIRST ELECTRONIC COMPUTER EVER SOLD. Published the year BINAC was delivered, the flyer contains the computer's statistics, a brief outline of its elements and general characteristics, coding instructions, and a conversion table comparing decimal, coded decimal, binary, and octal numbers. A full-page illustration shows the various components of the system. The document was likely produced for distribution when the machine was being demonstrated to interested parties. It may be the only document extant that gives the complete instruction set (sixteen instructions) for the BINAC. Few copies of this brochure would have been distributed, as only one machine was sold, and Eckert-Mauchly rapidly turned their attention to building the UNIVAC. When OOC was written no copies of this brochure were cited in OCLC or RLIN. (2) THE INVITATION TO THE FIRST WORLD'S FIRST COMMERCIAL DEMONSTRATION OF A STORED-PROGRAM ELECTRONIC COMPUTER. The demonstration of the BINAC computer was held on August 23, 1949, shortly before it was shipped to Northrop Aircraft Company in California. (The BINAC had completed its acceptance testing the previous day). This was the first invitation ever published for the commercial demonstration of an electronic digital computer. The invitation's third page is printed with BINAC's statistics: repetition rate, memory, operational rates, input, output, digital system, and checking system. By demonstrating BINAC's capabilities publicly, Eckert and Mauchly hoped to prove their competence as computer engineers and to attract new customers for the still-unfinished UNIVAC. They had also thought about raising some much-needed cash by selling computing time on BINAC to businesses, but Northrop, who had commissioned BINAC, vetoed this idea as it would further delay delivery on a machine already fifteen months overdue. POSSIBLY UNIQUE. OOC 1145, 1147.
(1) The BINAC. A product of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp . Reproduced typescript, stapled. 8 sheets, including full-page illustration. N.p.: Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp, 1949. 282 x 218 mm. -- (2) "The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation cordially invites [in ms.: Mr. Ralph E. Mullendore] to attend a demonstration of the new electronic binary automatic computer BINAC on [in ms.: Tuesday, Aug. 23,] 1949 at two-thirty P.M. daylight saving time." N.p, 1949. Provenance : Ralph E. Mullendore. (1) THE SALES BROCHURE FOR THE FIRST STORED-PROGRAM ELECTRONIC COMPUTER PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES, AND THE FIRST ELECTRONIC COMPUTER EVER SOLD. Published the year BINAC was delivered, the flyer contains the computer's statistics, a brief outline of its elements and general characteristics, coding instructions, and a conversion table comparing decimal, coded decimal, binary, and octal numbers. A full-page illustration shows the various components of the system. The document was likely produced for distribution when the machine was being demonstrated to interested parties. It may be the only document extant that gives the complete instruction set (sixteen instructions) for the BINAC. Few copies of this brochure would have been distributed, as only one machine was sold, and Eckert-Mauchly rapidly turned their attention to building the UNIVAC. When OOC was written no copies of this brochure were cited in OCLC or RLIN. (2) THE INVITATION TO THE FIRST WORLD'S FIRST COMMERCIAL DEMONSTRATION OF A STORED-PROGRAM ELECTRONIC COMPUTER. The demonstration of the BINAC computer was held on August 23, 1949, shortly before it was shipped to Northrop Aircraft Company in California. (The BINAC had completed its acceptance testing the previous day). This was the first invitation ever published for the commercial demonstration of an electronic digital computer. The invitation's third page is printed with BINAC's statistics: repetition rate, memory, operational rates, input, output, digital system, and checking system. By demonstrating BINAC's capabilities publicly, Eckert and Mauchly hoped to prove their competence as computer engineers and to attract new customers for the still-unfinished UNIVAC. They had also thought about raising some much-needed cash by selling computing time on BINAC to businesses, but Northrop, who had commissioned BINAC, vetoed this idea as it would further delay delivery on a machine already fifteen months overdue. POSSIBLY UNIQUE. OOC 1145, 1147.
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