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The Birth of an ERA: Engineering Associates, Inc. 1946-1955
October 1979 (vol. 1 no. 2)
pp. 83-97
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| Erwin Tomash, Arnold A. Cohen, "The Birth of an ERA: Engineering Associates, Inc. 1946-1955," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 83-97, October, 1979. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/MAHC.1979.10015, author = {Erwin Tomash and Arnold A. Cohen}, title = {The Birth of an ERA: Engineering Associates, Inc. 1946-1955}, journal ={IEEE Annals of the History of Computing}, volume = {1}, number = {2}, issn = {1058-6180}, year = {1979}, pages = {83-97}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.1979.10015}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Annals of the History of Computing TI - The Birth of an ERA: Engineering Associates, Inc. 1946-1955 IS - 2 SN - 1058-6180 SP83 EP97 EPD - 83-97 A1 - Erwin Tomash, A1 - Arnold A. Cohen, PY - 1979 VL - 1 JA - IEEE Annals of the History of Computing ER - | |||
An account is presented of the early years of a pioneering computer company, Engineering Research Associates, Inc. (ERA), which was formed in 1946 at St. Paul, Minnesota, with Navy encouragement. This company was merged into Remington Rand Inc., in 1952, as was Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation two years earlier. These mergers created the basis for what later became the Univac division of Sperry Rand Corporation, or Sperry Univac. ERA's technological contributions are discussed, along with the company's pre-merger growth and financing problems. There were post-merger problems, primarily of organizational integration, but solid groundwork was being laid for Sperry Rand's eventual success in the data processing industry.
Citation:
Erwin Tomash, Arnold A. Cohen, "The Birth of an ERA: Engineering Associates, Inc. 1946-1955," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 83-97, Oct. 1979, doi:10.1109/MAHC.1979.10015
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