Edward F. Somers papers 1954-1966

United States Steel Corporation. Methods Planning Division.

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Somers, Edward F.

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Edward F. Somers directed the Automatic Programming Development Division of Sperry Rand in Philadelphia in the late 1950s. He later became manager of Business Automatic Programming for General Electric's (GE) Computer Department. From the guide to the Edward F. Somers papers, 1954-1966, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute. [cbi]) ...

Sperry Rand Corporation

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There are two epochs in the history of computing: before the completion of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (known as the ENIAC), and after. While there are several controversies about the development of the ENIAC and its immediate successors, there is nearly universal agreement on three points: the ENIAC was the watershed project which convinced the world that electronic computing was not merely possible, but practicable; it was a masterpiece of electrical engineeri...

General Electric Company. Computer Dept.

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The Computer Department of General Electric Company (GE) was established in 1956 with H.R. (Barney) Oldfield as its general manager. Its main operations were located in Phoenix, AZ. The department manufactured mainframe computers and other computer equipment until 1970 when the department was sold to Honeywell, Inc. GE also maintained a computer center at Arizona State University. It donated an IBM 704 computer to the center in 1957 and a GE-304 computer in 1960. From the guide to th...