Sperry Corporation, Univac Division records 1825.I This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on September 14, 2021. Description is written in: English. Describing Archives: A Content Standard Manuscripts and Archives PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library Sperry Corporation, Univac Division records 1825.I Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 4 Historical Note ............................................................................................................................................... 4 Scope and Content ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 7 Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................... 8 Controlled Access Headings .......................................................................................................................... 9 Appendices ..................................................................................................................................................... 9 Bibliography ................................................................................................................................................. 16 Collection Inventory ..................................................................................................................................... 16 Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand records ......................................................................................................... 16 "Original file" ......................................................................................................................................... 17 Legal papers ............................................................................................................................................... 35 Interference Files .................................................................................................................................... 35 Sperry Rand v. Bell Tel. Labs ............................................................................................................... 36 Technitrol v. Sperry-Rand ...................................................................................................................... 38 I.B.M. v. Sperry Rand ............................................................................................................................ 38 Honeywell v. Sperry Rand & I.S.D. ...................................................................................................... 40 Telex Computer Corp. v. I.B.M. ............................................................................................................ 40 Financial Operations ............................................................................................................................... 40 Executive Officer files .............................................................................................................................. 41 R.E. McDonald (President, 1965-1970) ................................................................................................. 41 G.H. Geick (Vice president for corporate affairs, 1967-1969) .............................................................. 43 F.R. Raach (Vice president for product planning, 1963-1965) .............................................................. 52 Technical Documents ................................................................................................................................ 54 Chronological File .................................................................................................................................. 54 Clearance Council Technical Articles .................................................................................................... 87 Data Processing Division, Philadelphia Engineering Operations ........................................................ 103 Progress Reports Engineering Laboratories ......................................................................................... 103 Technical Memoranda - Publications Engineering Department .......................................................... 103 Engineering Department Technical Memoranda .................................................................................. 108 St. Paul Technical Memoranda File (relating to NIKE ZEUS Project) ............................................... 108 Sperry Rand Research Center Reports-Sudbury, Mass. ....................................................................... 111 Misc. Technical Documents ................................................................................................................. 120 - Page 2 - Sperry Corporation, Univac Division records 1825.I Engineering Department records ............................................................................................................. 121 Engineering Research Associates ............................................................................................................ 124 Sales and Marketing Department ............................................................................................................ 126 General File ........................................................................................................................................... 127 Product Planning Records .................................................................................................................... 129 USE, Inc. Files ...................................................................................................................................... 130 Sales Literature ..................................................................................................................................... 131 Management Services and Operations Research Reports .................................................................... 153 Programming and service manuals ......................................................................................................... 154 Service Manuals .................................................................................................................................... 154 Programming Manuals .......................................................................................................................... 155 Varian Data Machine .............................................................................................................................. 164 Public Relations Department ................................................................................................................... 167 Press Releases, Company Brochures .................................................................................................... 167 Marketing Information Center (clippings, publications re: UNIVAC History by folder) .................... 168 Sperry Univac History Book ................................................................................................................ 168 Patent and licensing ................................................................................................................................. 169 Personnel Department records ................................................................................................................ 171 - Page 3 - Sperry Corporation, Univac Division records 1825.I Summary Information Repository: Manuscripts and Archives Creator: Sperry Rand (Corporation). Univac Division Title: Sperry Rand Corporation, Univac Division records ID: 1825.I Date [inclusive]: 1935-1985 Physical Description: 616 Linear Feet Language of the English . Material: Abstract: The Sperry Corporation was an electronics company and the UNIVAC Division manufactured the first commercial digital computer. The Sperry UNIVAC division has its origins in the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC), founded in 1946 by J. Presper Eckert (1919-1995) and John W. Mauchly (1907-1980). In 1950, Eckert and Mauchly sold their firm to Remington Rand, Inc, a major manufacturer of business machines, who continued development of the UNIVAC system. The collection documents most of Sperry-Univac's major company functions and includes a large body of materials generated by the Sperry-Honeywell lawsuit that revolved around the question about who invented the first electronic-digital computer. ^ Return to Table of Contents Historical Note The Sperry Corporation was an electronics company and the UNIVAC Division manufactured the first commercial digital computer. The Sperry UNIVAC division has its origins in the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC), founded in 1946 by J. Presper Eckert (1919-1995) and John W. Mauchly (1907-1980), the developers of ENIAC, the first electronic digital computer. The firm began the development of the UNIVAC, the first stored memory digital computer for commercial applications. Capital shortages forced Eckert and Mauchly to sell the firm to Remington Rand, Inc., a major manfuacturer of business machines, in 1950. The first UNIVAC