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. Digital Compute rs in Eastern Europe
. . . Alston S. Householder
Automafic Airways
. . . Henry T. Simmons
Roster of Organ izations in the Computer Field
(cumulative)

Mathematical Analyst Keith Kersery loads
jet transport flutter problem into one
-qf Lockheed's two 701 'so On order: two
704's to help keep Lockheed in forefront of numerical analysis and production control data processing.

With two 701 digital computers already in operation, Lockheed
has ordered two 704's to permit greater application of numerical
analysis to complex aeronautical problems now being
approached. Scheduled for delivery early next year, the 704's
will replace the 701 'so

704's and 701's speed

Lockheed research in
numerical analysis

Much of the work scheduled or in progress is classified.
However, two significant features are significant to career-minded
Mathematical Analysts: 1) the wide variety of assignments
created by Lockheed's diversified development program and
2) the advanced nature of the work, which falls largely into
unexplored areas of numerical analysis.

Career positions for Mathematical Analysts
Lockheed's expanding development program in nuclear energy,
turbo-prop and jet transports, radar search planes, extremely hlghspeed aircraft and other classified projects has created a number of
openings for Mathematical Analysts to work on the 704's.
Lockheed offers you attractive salaries, generous travel and moving
allowances which enable you and your family to move to Southern
California at virtually no ~xpense; and an extremely wide range of
employe benefits which add approximately 14% to each engineer's
salary in the form of insurance, retirement pension, etc.
Those interested in advanced work in this field are invited to
write E. W. Des Lauriers, Dept. MA-31-12.

LOCKHEED
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COMPUTERS
CYBERNETICS
Vol.

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AUTOMATION

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AUTOMATIC

CONTROL
December, 1955

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ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1951

ARTICLES
Di gital Computers in Eastern Europe
Automatic Airways

REFERENCE

· .. A. S. Householder
· .. H. T. Simmons

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INFOR~ATION

Roster of Organizations in the Computer Field
Components of Automatic Computing Machinery - List of Types
A utomatic Computing Services - Roster
Automatic Computing Machinery - List of Types
Index, Vol. 3, No. 10 (Dec. 1954) thru Vol. 4, No. 11 (Nov. 1955)
New Patents
Magazines Related to Computers and Automation - Roster

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FORU~I

Greeting to Computers
Conferences Over Election Day
... Jerry Svigals
High-Speed Searching Techniques for Scanning Literature
· .. T. C. Hines
Bibliography Compilation - Request for Assistance
· .. R. R. Seeber, Jr.

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Tne Editor's Notes
Index of Notices
Advertising Index

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THE EDITOR'S NOTES

FREE USE OF TORONTO'S COMPUTER FOR
RESEARCH

At the Eastern Joint Computer Conference
in Boston, Dr. C.C. Gotlieb of the Computation
Centre at the University of Toronto, and your
editor talked about a certain problem that
would be a good one to run on a computer.
I
told him that some time I wanted to work on coding and running Part 2 of the problem of translating English spoken language into properly
spelled English words. Part I of the problem
of course consists of recognizing spoken sounds
and noting them down as English "phonemes":the
sounds which carry meaning, such as "p" as in
"cup", "ng" as in "sing", the "eh" in "very,
and the longer "eh" in "vary". This part of
the problem, I believe, is still beyond reach
for the next few years. But Part 2 of the
problem is to take English expressed in phonemes, and translate it using a computer into
properly spelled English words. Of course, we
Ivould need a translation into machine programming of the rules which a champion speller of
English uses (including indications of context
so as to dis tinguish between "him" and "hymn".
Dr. Gotlieb said that they had a policy
at the Computation Centre at the University of
Toronto of allo1ving free use of their Ferranti
computer Ferut, to a reasonable extent, to any
investigator who was not going to profi t personally from the research: this in spi te of the
fact that they regularly charge $100 an hour
for the use of their computer on commercial
problems. He invited the putting of this problem on Ferut.
In addition, Dr. Gotlieb said tlBt they were
planning to tie in their computer by teletype
with many other universities, in Canada, so that
each could have access to the machine and put
its Otvn problems first hand onto the machine.
In this way they could make their one machine
helpful to the whole of Canada for research and
instruction.
,READER'S INOUIRIES

We were talking the other day to a brilliant and practical man in an advertising agency, with the object of convincing him that advertising in "Computers and Automation" would
be a good idea for his client.
He said to us:
(Don't l"1ork forward
vice to the field.)
will put $ into· the
want?" He said: "A

"Ahvays Ivork backlvard.
-- in terms of giving a serAsk yourself instead: Who
magazine, and what do they
magazine is an economic

tool for an advertiser. He wants to get a fair
return on his money. He wants to be sure that
his ad did some useful work. Your argument
needs to be "From your ad in such-and-such issue of our magazine, you received so many in quiries from so many people, and they are important people, and good prospects." And we
talked about controlled circulation magazines,
that are sent free to their recipients, and the
great volume of inquiries that flow out of some
of them.
Irrespective of whether all of the philosophy of controlled circulation should apply to
"Computers and Automation", and irrespective of
whether we should surrender our primary objective, to be as useful.as possible to computer
people, it is a fact of life for any magazine
that it must earn its way. Earnings come from
(a) subscriptions and (b) advertising. So in
this issue we have put back into "Computers and
Automation" a reader's inquiry form (p.54), and
Ive ask all of you, our readers, to take a good
look at the ads in each issue, and if they are
interesting to you, and refer to products which
you might use, to send us inquiries for forwarding to advertisers. If 10% of our subscribe~
(200 out of 2000) sent us inquiries each month,
the effect would be profound. There is no doubt
that good evidence of the response to advertisements in our magazine will make a great difference in the reception of "Computers and Automation" among advertisers, and the resulting
size, quality, and price of the magazine.
THE WELL-LAID PLANS OF MICE AND MEN •..

When we started to put this issue together,
which was planned to be an issue full of reference information including an up-to-date "Glossary", we found that there was a very great
deal of information to be put into it. The new
cumulative "Roster of Organizations in the Computer Field", -- brought up to date from a questionaire expressly for this issue,-- by itself
covered over 16 pages. Also, some important
and timely articles appeared: Would it be better to delay them a month, or to delay some of
the reference information?
We decided that it would be more to the
advantage of computer people and our readers to
print the articles promptly -- the news about
digital computers in Eastern Europe and the news
about automatic airways -- and postpone the balance of the reference information. A good pmrt
of this will appear in the January issue 0 f
"Computers and Automation".

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THE EDITOR'S NOTES

REFERENCE INFORMATION: VOLUNTEERS

In this issue I'Je publish the following
cumulative editions of reference information:
Roster of Organizations in the Computer Field;
Roster of Automatic Computing Services; Magazines Related to Computers and Automation;
Automatic Computing Machinery -- List of Types;
Components of Automatic Computing Machinery-List of Types.
In the January issue I'Ve plan
at least the following cumulative
Glossary of Terms in the Field of
and Automation; List of Automatic
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GREETING TO COMPUTERS

December 25 is coming, and so we should
like to wish you all:
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and 86986 14756 94379 55431 70.
But we think the time has come I'Jhen we
should enlist more colleagues, like Hans
Schroeder and Raymond R. Skolnick, in "Patents"
and Gordon Spenser and Jewell Bown in "Books
and Other Publications",to help the editors
conduct various inventories of reference fuformation. Are there any volunteers? and what
.are your suggestions?

A GATEWAY TO SCIENCE

(Solve ~or the digits -- each letter stands
for jus tone digit 0 to 9. -- This is a Numb Ie,
a number puzzle for a nimble mind; for hints
for solution -- if a computer needs hints -wri te us. The solution t'Jill appear in January.)

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FORUM

The readers of "Computers and Automation"
may be interested to know that we have begun
in a small way to publish a second magazine
"A Gateway to Science", a quarterly for the
present. The first issue, Nov. 1955, 16 pages (mos tly advertis ing, let us Ivarn you) is
being sent to some 7000 persons who have made
inquiry of us, in the last four years, not necessarily computer people.
The expanding frontier of the world today is science. New avenues for advance are
appearing everywhere. Some of the questions
we plan to discuss in "A Gate1'Jay to Science"
are: What are the new fields of science? How
does one enter them? What are the powerful
concepts and exciting possibilities that will
shape the future? What are references to get·
information from? If you Ivould like to see
"A Gateway to Science", tell us.

CONFERENCES OVER ELECTION DAY
Jerry SVlgals
I would like to use your Letters to the
Editor column to ,comment on the dates of last
Joint Computer Conference, in Boston, Nov. 7 to
9. I think thavwhoever scheduled the meeting
ignored the fact that it coincided with Election Day. I for one, feel, that this is a very
unfortunate oversight. I hope that it willnoc
reoccur in the future.

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INDEX OF NOTICES
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the new subscription rate $5.50 prior to December 31, 1955, may at the same time buy a
copy of "The Computer Directory, 1955" (the
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Back Copies
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Manuscripts (revised Nov. 10)
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HIGH-SPEED SEARCHING TECHNIQUES FOR SCANNING
LITERATURE

BIBLIOGRAPHY COMPILATION -REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE

Theodore C. Hines
Chief, Extension Dept., _
Washington Public Library,
Washington, D.C.

Robert R. Seeber, Jr.
Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory
New York, N.Y.

I am enclosing a Who's Who entry form.
Please renew my subscription when it expires.
I am sorry to see that your rates are rising,
but then what isn't? Besides, as you point
out, you have become fatter and oftener.

MY personal interest in computers is primarily in their application to high-speed
searching techniques for scanning the literature of various subjects.
I'm sure you're familiar with such applications, and with the problem of literature
searching in general, which ties in so closely
with computers and automation. Much has been
done, particularly in the field of chemistry,
but much more needs doing. Consistent application of such techniques as that developed by
Dr. Ralph R. Shaw (the Rapid Selector), or suggested by Dr. V. Bush to meet the Patent
Office's search problem, is badly needed.
Since the problem is truly basic, I wish
that more space could be devoted to it in the
maga2:'ine. At any rate, I'm sure that it would
be helpful if you could call the attention of
your readers to American Documentation, which
carries many articles which would be of interest to them. I've ventured to write up an
annotation, which follows:
Shera, Jesse H., editor / American Documentation Institute, in cooperation with the
School of Library Science, Western Reserve
University / quarterly since 1950, photooffset, about 60 pp., $6.00 per year.
Covers many phases of documentation. Many
articles on machine searching of literature, including application of symbolic
logic to indexing processes, use of computers to do searching based on the association of ideas, the application of such
techniques in specific organi2:ations. Excellent though limited abstracts of pertinent material a regular feature. Both
technical and more general articles. Of
much more interest to readers of Computers
and Automation than title would indicate
to those unfamiliar with documentation.
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The Watson Laboratory is preparing a new
edition of its "Bibliography on the Use of IBM
Machines in Science, Statistics, and Educatiori~
this edition is to include references to articles .published before January 1956.
We would like to receive before January 20
copies of articles, or references to articles,
which might be included in the new edition of
the bibliography, which is scheduled to come'
out at the end of January. We are interested
both in articles published in journals, and m
articles not published in journals but which
-are available from the author or his organi2:ation ..
The articles we are seeking are those which
discuss specific problems and their solutions
on IBM machines, and which are of a scientifi~
statistical, or educational nature. We do not
include business applications.
We hope the new edition of the bibliography
will be as complete as possible in order that
it may give maximum assistance to mathematicians, scientists, programmers, and coders. We
feel that the circulation that "Computers and
Automation" has among people in the computer
field would enable us to uncover articles that
we might otherwise miss ..
We would appreciate it if any reader 0 f
"Computers and Automation" would send any references or copies of articles to:
Librarian
International Business Machines Co~
Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory
612 West 116 St.
New York 27, N.Y.
The bibliography when ready will be available free of charge by writing to the Watson
Laboratory.
We shall appreciate very much any assistance you or your readers can give us.

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DIGITAL

COMPUTERS

IN

EASTERN. EUROPE

ALSTON S. HOUSEHOLDER

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee

In Darmstadt, Germany, at the end of October, the outside world generally IV~~ fir s t
provided with authoritative information on ~
ital computer development behind the Iron Cur.tain. At the same time promises we~e given of
further exchange of information.
The occasion was the Darmstadt Conference
on Electronic Digital Computers and Information
Processing', 6nentioned in "Computers and Auto'mation", Aug., 1955, p. 4) ~ orQani2:ed by P~of­
essor Alwin Walther and held at the Technische
Hochschule in Darmstadt. About 600 pe r son s
took part. Advance regist~ation had been requested; in the printed list of participants
there were men from the United States, Gre a t
Britain, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium,
Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, andeven
Spain and Finland. A supplementary page gave
the names of two Czechs, Svoboda (well known
in the U. S.) and Oblonsky, and of two R~ia~
Lebedev and Basilevsky, whose registrati~a~
ived too late for inclusion in the list pr~L
The Conference was scheduled to open on
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1955, to continue Wednesday
and Thursday and· to be followed on Friday by
tours. Svoboda and Obl'onsky arrived Tuesd ay
evening but the Russians had not appeared. Eventually a telegram came from Berlin say in g
they had been unable to obtain American visas
to get through Berlin, but that they still hoped to make it. Dramatically, on Thursday e~
ing, after the Conference proper had end ed,
there appeared the two already named, together
with two others, Ktorov and Novikov, who acted
as interpreters.
Although many had left and most others
were planning to leave, a special session was
arranged for Saturday morning at which Lebedev
and Basilevsky lvere invited to speak for th e
benefit of any who might find it possible to
remain. This writer had the good fortune to
be among these, as was de Vogelaere of the University of Notre Dame.
The two papers by Lebedev and Basilevsky
had been translated into German and were read
in this language by the two authors; following
them, there was a short question period caccied
on with the aid of the interpreters since Lebedev and Basilevsky spoke mainly Russmn. Generally speaking, the questions were answered,

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quite freely except in one instance where the
question concerned the use of transistors. The
reply to this was that the question had no direct bearing upon the paper under discussion •
Since the proceedings of the Conferenc e.
are to be published in full, no attempt will be
made to summarize these or other papers of the
Conference in any detail, but only to pick out
a few of the salient points.
BESM
The machine discussed by Lebedev is called the BESM (the Russian ini tials for "highspeed electronic computing' machine" would be
BEVM and the replacement of the V by S seems
,to' represent a concession to euphony). It compares favorably in speed and capacity with any
American or other European machine other than
IBM's NORC (Naval Ordnance Research Cakulatorl
BESM was said to have been in operation for
about half a year, and about 75% good ~ration
time is claimed for it. It appears, further,
that no other machines just like it are planned. Associated with it is a staff of 500
people, but no classification or other characterization of the staff was given.
The machine operates in binary floating
point, with 6 digits for the exponent and 33
for the mantissa, inclusive of the sign digi~.
Cathode ray tubes are used for the fast memor~
but they are said to resemble those used in tie
Whirlwind more than they ·do the Williams tubes.
In this there are 1024 words. There is, in
addi tion, a special memory of 376 'w 0 r d's_ by
means of germanium diodes, to which access is
in some sense limi ted and t'lhose function is not
clear, but i t see~ to be used for ,storing special subroutines in frequent use.
The commands are triple-address. Addition and subtraction requIre from:.!7 to 18 2
microseconds, according to the normalization;
mul tiplicatio,n, "270 microseconds;, d i vision,
288 microseconds. Tpere is auxiliary storage
on a magnefic drum with 5 blocks of 1024 wor~
in each, and on 4 magnetic tapes. On the drum
the mean waiting time is 40 microseconds, mUr
which the rate of transfer is 800 w 0 r d s per
second, ·while the rate to or from tape is 400
words per second. On an "important problem"

DIGITAL COMPUT·ERS IN EASTERN EUROPE

which required the use of both drum and tape,
the machine operated at an average rate of 7
to'8 operations per millisecond.

In conversatIon, Professor Lebedev remarked that they consider th,e use of a triple-adiress code to double the effective com p u ting
speed of a machine. He did not elaborate on
this statement.
For commands, the 39 bits are grouped in11 for each of the three addresses, 5 fo r
the operation, and the remaining one is used
in normalization of the result. There are 3L
distinct operations possible.
td

The input and output' are by means of pWlmed cards which are said to be grouped in to
"books", but little else was said about this.
The machine has been used for problems in ~
science and also for industrial problems (one
questioner asked if any problems c~me fro m
commercial organizations and was told that in
Russia such things do not exist).

URAL
The machine reported by Basilevsky ~more
on the order of an IBM 650; presumably there
are more than one, under construction at le~
It is called the JRAL, or more fully, the "Universal" electronic digital machine, although
the short name is apparently not formed from
ini tials of words. It has a magnetic d rum
memory of 1024 l"lords and an auxiliary tap e
memory of 40,000 l'v'ords, each word being of 3)
binary digits. It' is single-address, fix e d
point. Somewhat apologetically, its e e med,
the speaker excused the use of fixed poi n t
calculation by the remark that it was expected
that in the majority of cases the machine waUd
be used in the solution of many problems of similar type where the scaling would be f air 1 y
standard. It was also pointed out that in any
event the machine could be programmed to do
its own scaling.
It is said that positive numbers are directly coded and negative numbers "inversely'~
This seems to mean that negative numbers are
repres~Sed by their complements l'v'i th respect
to 2-2
,or by the "one's" complement. There
are a total of 30 distinct operations in the
URAL. The arrangement of registers is s u c h
that operations such as taibi and con tin u e d
multiplications al a2 a3 ••• can be carried out
without the need,for s~oring intermediate results. Each operation requires 10 milliseconds except for division, l'v'hich requires 40,
and a "normalization" operation which requires
20 (I have in my notes that multiplication requires 30, but I cannot find this statement inthe original paper).

Transfers between magnetic drum and ma gnetic tape can take place at the rate of 4500,
words per minute., Input and output are on pun-·
ched paper tape. Input is at the rate of 4500
words per minute, output 300 words per minute.
These seem to be the principal facts revealed. Nothing was said about any other possible developments. It was clear, however, that
they were well informed on developments in America, in particular. They were quite fascinated by the NORC. The import of some of their
questions was not clear, possibly because of
linguistic barriers. Professor Lebedev was
much interested in the NORC, and having asked
about the cos,t, and why the same money was not
invested in several' slower machines instead of
the one, 1 arge . one, he next seemed to reverse
his point of view, asking if more NORCs would
be built (the reply was in the negative, trudng
the question as phrased, but was probably u nfair and not a correct answer to the question
intended), and expressing great surprise, saying that surely in America there must be many
problems. Fortunately or unfortunately, the
conversation was interrupted at this point and
never resumed(suggestions from readers are solicited).
Other Developments

In contrast to the Russians, who seemed
completely informed on developments here, were
the Czechs, who seem to have been almost completely uninformed about developments either
here or in Russ ia. Even Lehmann from East Germany, who reported on a small computer at Dresden, had been given an expense-paid trip to
Moscow to see the BESM. Cut off fr.om all 0 u t- '
side information, the Czechs had built at Prague
a small magnetic drum computer called SAP O.
It has storage for 1024 words of 32 binary digits each, and floating point binary representation with 6 digits,for the exponent.
The
first striking feature is the use of 3 u nits
operating in'parallel for checking. This has
the obvious advantages that in SOIOO cases a n
error is readily corrected by the machine itself without stopping. Another curious feature is the use of a five-address code; the usual three addresses with alternative addresses
for the next instruction. This machine has hem
described in Czech, wit~ an abstract in English,
in. "Stroj e na Zpracovtinl Informaci".
A second machine is under construction in
Czechoslovakia. It might be mentioned t hat
theoretical work on the synthesis of relay networks has been carried out under Svoboda's direction and results are published in the same
publication. It is also of interest that the
computer SAPO is being used in the synthesis a
the networks to be used in the new computer.
(continued

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AUTOMATIC

AIRWAYS

HENRY T. SIMMONS
Washington, D.C.

(Reprinted with permission from "TI;e Wall Street Journal", Oct. 25, 1955)

Airway traffic police are working up longrange plans to avert traffic jams in the sky.
If the plans work as expected, the airliner
of the future will be flown from the ground by
a complex mass of long-range radar and e Ie ctronic brains -- with the pilots hardly lifting
a finger.
Jamming the airways will be a dense, fastmoving stream of air traffic, routed with splitsecond accuracy. There will be eve n 1 e s s
danger of air collision than now, fewer flight
cancellations in bad weather and fewer delays
in landing and taking off at any time.
This automation of the airways won't com e
tomorrow, and probably not until the late 1960's.
Meantime, human pilots will operate muc has
they do today and the air traffic controllers
of the .Civil Aeronautics Administration will
rely on conventional radio navigation aids and
on increased, improved use of radar to handle
swelling sky traffic.
First All-Radar Airway
Right 'now they're planning to set up the
nation's first all-radar airway on the crOOIded
Norfolk-to-Boston route; when it's 'comple te d
in two years or so, it will let the traffi c
controllers keep in touch with planes visually
on radar screens, instead of by radio, ove r
the full 500-mile route. The advantages predicted for this radar hookup give a glimp s e
of the much greater feats expected eventually.
Says a C.A.A. expert:
"Today, if we have two planes flyi n g
on the same route at the same altitude,
they must be at least 10 minutes apart.
This could mean a separation of 20 to 100
miles, depending on the speed of the planes.
Wi th radar, we could cut this to jus t
five miles. By cutting down on separation, we can move planes off the groun d
faster, bring them in faster and increase
the capacity of the airways."
/ But more radar won't be enough to handle
the growing load. Even now, air traffic jams
are such that multimillion-dollar airliners
must often queue up on runways to await takeoff or stack up over airports for ~n hour 0 r
two to await landing.
Scheduled airlines, along with their trade
group, the Air Transport Association, are push-

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ing for improved air traffic control. Speaking of the drive for more automatic air control,
an American Airlines spokesman says:
t'It is one of those things that goes by
steps, and it takes a million stepstoget
to the end of the line. Every day we're
trying to improve our air traffic situation and each step is along a well-planned
route into the ul timate' automatic control
set-up. Economically it is esse nt i a 1 ;
otherwise there won't be any airline business. Already we've run out of air space
east of the Mississippi."
By 1965, Government men predict, domestic
airlines will haul 70 million passengers, more
than twice last year's 32 million, and othe r
traffic will zoom upwards by a like speed.
Jet's Impact
The urgency of better traffic con t r 0 1 .
will be vastly increased by the impending advent of jet airliners, flying close to double
the 300-miles-an-hour speed of most pres e n t
transports; the speedy jets must be fitted into
the same flight pattern with the slower planes.
Wi th tremendous future traffic in min d,
the C.A.A. men have taken the first steps i n
a program which may bring automation t o t h e
airways. They've persuaded the Air Force t 0
give them a peek at the inner workings of its
vast, super-secret SAGE project for continental air defense.
SAGE stands for Semi-Automatic G r 0 u n d
Environment. That's the Air Force's ti tIe for
an enourmous network of telephone and mic r 0wave radio circuits it's building to link its
farflung radar outposts with giant electronic
brains located in command centers in potential
target areas. Purpose of the $2.4 bi 11 ion
project is to convert the continent's air defense system from a manual to a largely auto~
matic operation. When co~leted in the m i d1960' s, it will be a deadly weapon for the Air
Defense Command in knocking down enemymtackers.
F.C.C.

& A.T.& T.

Jus t 1 as t week, the Federal Communicmions
Commission told the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. it could start construction mseven
Eastern states on the first of an estimat e d
25,000 communications circui ts to be 1 e as e d

AUTOMATIC AIRWAYS
to the Air Force for 10 years as part of th e
SAGE pr9ject. A.T. & T. and other companies
of the Bell System will finance constructio n
of the new circui ts and will be paid up to $240
million a year when the project is finished.
Details of the closely-guarded SAGE project are meager, but the system will worksonething like this:
An approaching enemy airc raf t will b e

spotted by a radar station, located possibl y
in the Arc tic, in Canada or on a picket s hip
or "Texas Tower" off the nation's coas ts. The
attacker's course and speed will be automatically transmitted to a distant electronic calculator at a ground control center. Jetfi~~
or guided missiles will be assigned to down the
intruder. The electronic brain will take over
control of the intercepting weapons and direct
them toward the epemy. When the target is in
range, the lightning-fast thinking machine will
fire the fighter's guns or rockets and pull it
away from the target to avoid a collision.
In the case of a guided missile, it will
be steered directly into the target.
SAGE wouldn't be used in this way for
routine air traffic, of course. But the C.A.A.
men figure that if a remote electronic bra in
can keep track of fast-moving, evasive e ne my
bombers and knock them down before they can do
any damage, it can be modified to direct peaceful air traffic as well.
Just how this might be done is still i n
the realm of speculation. One ofiiciru advances
this idea: Equip civil aircraft with speci a 1
"automatic pilots" geared to respond to radi 0
impulses from electronic brains located on the
ground. The accurate thinking machines c oul d
"see" air traffic for hundreds of mi 1 e s wi th
their radar "eyes" and mathematically plot the
courses of the aircraft under their gui d anc e
so that there would be no danger of collision.
The mechanical brains would actually fly th e
aircraft even to the point of take-o f f a n d
landing.
Just where human pilots would fit in this
picture is hard to say. Presumably they'll
continue to ride in the cockpits to t a k e a
hand in case of unforeseen eroorgencies. Not
even the most dedicated believer in a i rw ay s
automation is quite ready to say pilots wi 1 1
no longer be necessary.
A joint C.A.A.-~ilitary team of experts
will give SAGE a thorough study to determine
its possibilities for air traffic contro 1 •
The civilian experts are optimistic tha t th e
giant continental defense project can be adapted to peaceful air traffic control while carrying out its military tasks, thus making in unnecessary to build a separate control .s y s t e m
for civil or routine military flights.

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A spokesman for the Air Transport Association in Washington says it has been participating in exploratory meetings with the C.A.A.
and the mili tary. "We are very much intereste d
in the SAGe project; it_might be capable of
coping wi th the traffic control probl em," he
states, though he notes some adaptations of the
SAGE system would probably be required.
The C.A.A. experts advance several reasons
for their optimism that t~is'could be done.
For one thing', they point out that regular
air traffic would not have to be directed with
the fan'tastic precision required for interceptors or missi les pursuing enemy bombers. For
this reason, they suggest that only a s m al 1
part of the vas t sys tern would have to be devoted
to air traffic control.
Another argument they offer is that SAGE,
to be fully effective, should control all air
traffic instead of just the lethal interceptors
and guided missiles to be sent aloft a g a ins t
enemy bombers. Should an attack come, SAG E
presumably could clear routine air traffic from
danger areas1with its left hand while deali ng
with the enemy with its right hand.
The Cost Argument
But their biggest argument for extendi n g
SAGE automation to routine air traffic control
is cost. Even if the aviation planners fin d
the principles of SAGE are perfectly geared to
civil aviation, and that they can build a similar system of their own, they see little likelihood of talking Congress into appropriating
the billions of dollars they would need to set
up a peaceful counterpart alongside of SAG E
Such a request would look mountainous when compared wi th the es ti rna ted $ 85 million which C. A. A.
now has invested in airways navigation rods and
communications facilities. For this reas 0 n ,
the civil aviation men are particularly anxious
to persuade the Air Force to share the benefi ts
of SAGE with them.
Just how the Air Force will take tot h e
overtures from the civilian agencies a c r 0 s s
the Potomac from the Pentagon isn't c 1 ear,
mainly because the fliers are highly secretive
about the big project. It's to be expected the
airmen will resent any inroads by civilians in
their all-military project, but that doe s n' t
mean ,they will resist proposals to share SAGE.
They have worked closely with C.A.A. in the past
to provide up-to-date navigation aids and they
have a big s take in seeing this program continued since about half of all airplane flights in
the U. S. are by military aircraf~.
To improve· traffic control ih the yea r s
before automation can reach the airways, C.A.A.
planners are pushing ahead with some less glamorous but no less important projects.

AUTOMATIC AIRWAYS
themselves. It will broadcast a po sit i ve
identification signal much stronger than the
returning radar beam now bounced off the airplane from the long-range ground radar devices.
It will permi t the traffic men to deter m in e
which of several planes they want to control
wi thout going through the laborious job of instructing pilots to turn this way and that and
watching their radar screens to see wbich plane
image moves -- thus determining by trial and
error which aircraft they want to instruct.

Most significant of these is the plan to
set up an all-radar airway on the Norfolk-toBoston route. It will have stations at Norfolk,
Washington, New York and Boston, and possibly
at Atlantic Ci ty, N. J., and Providence, R. 1.,
as well. Most of the equipment will be provided by the Defense Department at first, but
C.A.A. hopes eventually to provide its 0 w n
equipment.
C.A.A. has been using radar for many years,
but present equipment, located at about 30 of
the nation's larger airports, is g en era 1 1 Y
limi ted to a range of about 50 miles and i s
used principally to direct the final approach
of aircraft coming in to land. Present r a dar
installations aren't strung togeth er in any
system like that proposed for the Norfolk-toBoston route.

In addi tion, C.A.A. is studying devic e s
for transmitting flight clearances automatically to larger aircraft, wit h the p i l o t
acknowledging the instructions merel y b y
pressing a button. It is looking in t 0 electronic memory devices, computers and 0 the r
specialized equipment with the aim of cutting
down human error.

The C.A.A. men hope to have the first leg
of the new airway, between Norfolk and Was h,ington, operating by February, and to get th e
rest of it into operation within tw 0 years.
If they get all six stations into opera tio n,
they say, traffic controllers will be able to
"see" airplanes a~ any al ti tude above 2,
feet along the entire route.

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Help for Controllers
The scheme to radarize the airways wi 1 1
give a big lift to C.A.A. 's route controllers.
These are the people who follow the course 0 f
each aircraft from ground control centers and
make sure that a block of air space is reserved
for it during flight. For the most part, they
now keep in touch with pilots by radio. Since
they can't see the planes they are d irec t ing,
they must provide for a generous separation of
aircraft, particularly in bad weather.

BULK SUBSCRIPTION RATES
These rates apply to subscriptions coming in
together direct to the publisher. For example,
if 5 subscriptions come in together,' the saving on each one-year subscription will be 24
percent, and on each two-year subscription will
be 31 percent. The bulk subscription rate s,
depending on the number of simu1 taneous s u bscriptions received, follow:

Wi th air traffic climbing year by year and
the speed of new aircraft increasing, the separation standards presently required for a i rcraft could be a maj or obstacle to air 1 i n e
growth.
"Imagine ,how it would restrict traffic if
we had to provide ten-minute separation between
jet aircraft -- a block of air space 100 miles
long would need to be reserved for each jet, "
C.A.A. boss F. B. Lee said in a recent speech.
The answer to this threat is "radar, radar
and then some more radar," he declared. Playing it by ear will have to 'go -- vision is the
watchword for our future air traffic contro 1 •
We will have to give the controller an instantaneous picture of the traffic in his sector."
A particular gadget which C.A.A. hop e s
will lighten the' chores of its traffic control~
1ers is the "transponder."
This is a special
radar transmi t ter to be bui 1 t into air c r aft

Table 1 -- Bulk Subscription Rates
(Uni ted States)
Number of
Rate for Each Subscription, and
Simultaneous Resulting Saving to Subscriber
Subscriptions
One Year
Two Year
10 or more
5 to 9
4
3
2

$3.80, 31%
4.20, 24
4.60, 16
5.00, 9
5.25, 5

$6.60,
7.25,
8.00,
8.80,
9.55,

37%
31
24
16
9

For Canada, add 5,0 cents for each year,; 0 u tside of the United States and Canada, add $1.00
for each year.

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ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COMPUTER FIELD
(Cumulative, information as of November 10, 1955)

The purpose of this Ros ter' is to report organizations (all that are known to us) in the. computer
field: organizations making or developing computing
machinery or data-processing machinery; organizations supplying computing services or consulting
services in the computer field; and organizations
supplying components or services used in the computer field if significantly related to the field
(for example, magnetic drums would be such a component, while octal sockets would not be).
Entries. Each Roster entry if complete contains: nare of the organization, its address I
telephone number I description of its main ac tivi":'
ties, main products in the field, any comments I
size (expressed in number of employees), year established, nature of its interest. in the computer
field, types of activities it engages in. T~e last
four items are reported in abbreviations, which am
explained below. In cases where we did not ha v e
complete information, we have put down what w e
have.
Accuracy. We have tried to make each entry
accurate to the extent of information in our possession. , We shall be grate f u 1 for any m '0 r e
information or additions or corrections that anyone i,s kind enough ,to send us. Al though we h a v e'
tried to be accurate and complete, we as sum e no
liability for any statements. expressed or implied.
Abbreviations
The key to the abbreviations follows:
Size
Ls
Large size, over 500 employees .
Ms
Medium size, 50 to 500 employees
,Ss
Small size, under 50 employees (no. i n
parentheses is approx. no. of employees)
When Established
Le
Long established organization (1922 0 r
earlier>,
'
Me
Organization established a "medium" ti me
ago (1923 to 1941)
Se
Organization established a' short time ago
(1942 or later> (no. in parentheses i s
year of establishment)
Interest in Computers and Automation
Digital computing machinery
Ac
Analog computing machinery
Ic
Incidental interes ts' in computing ,machinery
Sc
Servomechanisms
Cc
Automatic control machinery
Me Automatic materials handling machinery

Dc

Activi ties
Ma
Manufacturing activity
Sa
Selling activity
Ra
Research and development

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Ca
Ga
Pa
Ba

Consulting
Government activity
Problem-solving
Buying activity
,(Used also in combinations, as in RMSa
"research, manufacturing and sell i ~ g
, ac ti vi ty")

*C This organization has kindly furnished
information expressly for the purp 0 s e s
Roster and therefore our report is likely
more complete and accurate than otherwise
be the case. (C for Checking)

us with
of the
to b e
migh t

ROSTER
ACF Electronics, Division' of ACF Industries, Inc.,
800' No. Pitt St., Alexandria, Va. I King 8-44401
*C '
Co'ders, dec oders,' s ervo-sys tems, dis pIa y
equipment, special instrulOOnts.
Ms (375)'
5eC1954} Ic RMSa
ACF Industries -- SEE ACF Electronics AND Avio n
Division
Adalia Limi ted, Castle Bldg., 1410 'Stanley 5 t.,
Montreal, P. Q., Canada I Marquette 2281
'
Research and consulting services in the application, design, and construction of computers.
5s Se(1952) DAc RCa
Addressograph-Mul tigraph Corp~, 1200 Babbitt Rd.,
Cleveland 17, Ohio I Redwood 1-8000 land elsewhere I *C
, ,Electronic facsimile printers for high-speed.
copying of typed data· contained in unit card
records. Addressograph sensing plates, composed automatically'from punched tape,which
will automatically list and total figures.
Data written at speeds up to 30 forty-character lines per second; as a byproduc t,
codes automatically punched into punch cards.
Transfer printers.
Ls(2500) , Le(1903) Ic
RM 5a
Aero Resear~h Ins trument Co., Inc., 1040 W. Grand
Ave., Chicago 22, Ill. I Taylor 9-64001 *C .
. Data reduction' and data gathering systems.
5s(3O} 5e(1953} Dc RMSCa
Aircraft-Marine Products, Inc., 2100 Paxton St.,
Harrisburg, Pa. I Harrisburg 4-0101 I *C
Patchcord programming systems; patchcords,
automatic wire terminators, tap e r' pin s
(single and multiple), capacitors, etc.
Ls (1600) Me (1941) 'Ic RPt6a
Alden Electronic and Impulse Recording Equipment
Co., Alden Research Center, Westboro, Mas s. I
Westboro 467 I *C
Facsimile recording ·equipment and facsimile'
components. "On-the-5pot Fac t Fi n de r's " ,
pulse records, automatic curve plot t e r s •
Recorder that monitors any machine or action
and records automatically ~
Ms 5e Ic RMSa
Alden Products Co.,' 117 No. Main St.,' Brockto,n,

ROSTEn OF ORGANIZATIONS
Mass. / Brockton 160 / *C
General and specific components for d igi tal
and analog computing machinery; plug-in components, sensing and indicating com ponents,
magnetic del ay 1 ine uni ts, magnetic s tora g e
cores, etc.
Ms (300) Me (1930) Ic RMSa
Alfax Paper and Engineering Co., Alden Res e arc;h
Center, Westboro, Mass. / Westboro 467 / *C
./
Electrosensitive recording papers.
Ms
Se
(1942) Ic RMSa
R. C. Allen Business Machines, Inc., 678 Front Av.
Grand Rapids 4, Mich. / Glendale 6-8541 / *C
'
Adding machines, bookkeeping machines, cas h
registers, gyro instruments, etc.
Ls(1250)
Me (1932) Dlc R~ a
Alpha Computing, Inc., 436 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los
Angeles 49, Calif. / Granite 27787 / *C
Computing service using both medium and large
computers for scientific and eng in e er i n g
problems.
Ss Se (1955) Dc CPa
American Automatic Typewriter Co., 2323No.Pulaski
Road, Chicago 39, Ill. / Everglade 4-5151 / *C
Pneumatically controlled progr am min g and
testing devices. Automatic selective typing
equipment (Autotypist). Testing machines for
typewri ters, adding machines, calcula tin g
machines.
Ms(lOO) Le(1869) Ic RMSa
American Ele~tronics, Inc., 2112 Chico Ave., E 1
Monte, CalIf. / Cumberland 3-5331 / *C
Analog and digital computers; servomechanisms;
analog computer components, resolvers, synchros, servo motors, etc.
Ls(600) Se(1945)
DASc RMSa
American Machine and Foundry, Electronics Division,
1085 Commonweal th Ave., Boston, Mass. / Algonquin
4-4234 / *C ,
Mag~etic ~hift register, digital dat~-handling
equlpment~ data readout and display, s e rv 0mechanisms to specifications. Digital servo
with 215 quantum units per revolution (shaft
to digi tal conversion).
Ls '(800)
Se (1948)
Dc RMSa
Amperi te Co., Inc., 561 Broadway, New York 12, N.Y./
Canal 6-1446 / *C
. Delay relays and regulators for computers,
etc.
Ms (75) Me (1923) Ic RMSa
Ampex Corp., 934 Charte'r St., Redwood City, Calif./
Emerson 8-1471 / *C
Magnetic recording of data. Input-outp u t
equipment. Digi tal and analog mag net i c
storage devices.
Ls(800)' Se(1944) Ic RMSa
Andersen Laboratories, Inc., 39-C Talcott R 0 ad,
West Ha~tford 10, Conn. / Adams 3-4491 / *C
Solid ultrasonic delay lines, computer memories, etc., for computer applicatio n s.
Ss (30) Se (1950) . Ic RMSa
Anelex Corp., Concord, N. H." and 150 Causeway St. ,
Boston 14, Mass. / Richmond 2-3400 / *C
High-speed printer (1800 charac ters per second) , numerical and alpha-numeric up t 0 64
characters and line-lengths up to 120 ch a racters.
Ms Se(1952) Dlc RMSa
Applied Science Corporation of Princeton, P.O.Box
44, Princeton, N. J. / Plainsboro 3-4141 / ';:C
Radio telemetering and automatic data conversion. Devices for automatic and semi-automatic
reduction and analysis of telemetering and
radar data. Analog read-in and read-ou t
devices. Digital storage and c ompu ti n g
elements. MADAM (Mul tipurpose Automatic Data

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Analysis Machine).

Ms(85)

Se(1946)

DAc

RCP~a

Argonne National Laboratory, Box 299, LeDDnt, 111:/
Lemont 800 / *C
Maker of Avidac and Oracle automatic digital
computers and other computers, for ow nus e
and other government agencies. Developin g
"George", new high speed computer, to be tested January, 1956.
Ls(2500) Me (1942) DAlc
RGPa
Arma Corp., Old Country Rd., Garden City, L. I.,
N. Y. / Garden City 3-2000 / *C
Electronic fire-control apparatus. Analog
computer components including res 0 1 v ers ,
induction generators, etc. Basic weapon and
control sys terns, navigational sys tems, precision remote control systems. Analog computer components.
Ls (6000) Le DA'5c Rrv5Pa
Armour Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of
Technology, 10 West 35 St., Chicago 16, Ill. /
Calumet 5-9600 / *C
Magnetic recording. Digi tal, analog and datahandling equipment. Automat ic contro 1
machinery. Servomechanisms. Instrumentation.
Computing service: analog, digital; h a v e
Goodyear Elec tronic Digi tal Dif fer en t i a 1
Analyzers, Two Channel Electronic Function
Generator, card programmed calculator.
Ls
(1200) Me (1936) DASCc RCPa
The Arnold Engineering Co., Marengo, Ill. / C h icago, Andover 3-6300 / *C
Magnetic materials for computer compone n ts,
etc.
Ms(425) Me (1936) Ic RMSa
Askania Regulator Co., 240 E. Ontario St., Chicago,
IlL / Whi teh a 11 4-3700 / *C
Hydraulic arid electronic automatic contr 0 1
equipment. Use analog computers; manuf a c ture servomechanisms and automatic controls.
Computing service: analog; Philbrick analog
computer.
Ms(400) Me (1930) SCc RMSPa
Atlas Precision Products Co., 3801 Castor Ave.,
Philadelphia 24, Pa. / Jefferson 5-3700 / *C
Mechanical analog computers, geared mechanisms, servos, etc.
Ms(300) Me (1928) Alc
MSa
Atomic Instrument Co., 84 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
39, Mass. / Eliot 4-4321 / *C
Analog to digital converters, pri n t e r s,
counter components and controls; shell velocity computation and recording; etc.
Ms
(100) Se (947) DACc RMSCa
Audi 0 Devices, Inc., 444 Madison Ave., New Yo r k
22, N. Y. / Plaza 3-0973
Magnetic tape guaranteed defect-free.
?s
?e Ic RMSa
Audio Instrument Co., Inc., 133 West 14 St., New
York 11, N. Y. / Oregon 5-7820 / *C
Electronic analog time-delay units from 10
to 10,000 milliseconds; logarithmic amplifiers. Specialized passive computer which
corrects for film nonlineari ty in photometric
Ss(lO) Se(1949) ASCc RMSCa
work, etc.
Audi 0 Produc ts Corp., 2265 Wes twood Blvd., Los
Angeles 64, Calif. / Bradshaw 2-4266 / *C
Digi tal plug circuits, I.e., triggers, cathode followers, binary scalers, etc.
~~
(125) Se (1948) Ic RMSa
The Austin Co., Special Devices Division, 76 9th
Ave., New York 11, N. Y. / Watkins 4-3630 / *C
Systems and devices for automatic control in

ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS
commerce and industry; analog, digital, damhandling, servo, electronic, e1ectromemanical.
Shaft position indicators and systems; cathode
ray indicators and systems.
Ls(division,l60;
company 25,000) Le(division, 1943; company,
1878) DASCMs RMSa
Automacite Applique, 10 rue Saulnier, Par is ge,
France
Automatic control apparatus.
Cc RMSa
Automatic Electric Co. 1033 West Van Buren St.,
Chicago 7, Ill. / Haymarket 1-4300 / *C
Automatic electrical systems, telephone equiproont, relays, stepping swi tc)les, etc., for
computing machinery and cODmlunications companies. Automatic control components.
Ls
(6000) Le(892) ICc RMSa
Automatic Signal Division, Eastern Industries, Inc.,
East Norwalk, Conn. / Temple 8-4791 / *C
Automatic volume-density traffic controllers·
digi tal and analog computers; servomechanis~.
Ms(3QO) Me (1928) Ic MSa
Automation Consultants, Inc., 1450 Broadway, New
York 18, N. Y. / Chickering 4-7800 / *C.
Consul tants in electronic systems and devices J
including automatic information-h and 1 i n g •
Ss Se(1953) Dc Ca
Automation Engineers Co., Division of Associated
Industrial Consultants, 246 West State Street,
Trenton, N. J. / Export 3-2602 / *C
Consul tants in automatic control mac h i nery
and automatic materials handling equipment.
Ss(20) Me (942) DACMc Ca
Autron Engineering, Inc., 1254 West 6th St., Los
Angeles 17, Calif. / Mutual 3237, 3331
Engineering design, development, and manufacture of electronic and electromechanical controIs and automatic control systems, devices,
and instruroonts.
?s Se(1956) Cc RMSa
Avion Division of American Car and Foundry Industries, Inc., 299 State Highway No. 17, Paramus,
N. J. / Colfax 1-4100 / *C
Analog computing machinery. Magnetic recorders, amplifiers, electronic choppers, t est
equipment, servomechanisms, automatic control
machinery, etc.
Ls(600) Se(1946) ASCMc
RMSa
Baird Associates, 33 University Road, Camhridg e,
38, Mass. / University 4-0101 / *C
Spectroscopic analysis equipment; scientific
ins truroonts i analog devices, servo-mechanisms;
transistors. Instrumentation for industrial
control. Research in physical optics.
Ms
(200) Me (937) AISc RM3a
Battelle Memorial Inst., 505 King Ave., Columbus I,
Ohio / Ax 9-3191 / *C
Computing service: analog, digital; differential analyzer, card prograDllJed calculato r, \
punch card mac~ines. Many other activities.
Ls(25OO) Me (1929) Ic RCPa
Beckman Division, Beckman Instruments, Inc., Fullerton, Calif. / Lambert 5-8241 / *C
Multi-channel digital data-handling systemsi
200 channel strain gage recorder. Automatic
process control, digital dat.a-handling and
recording.
Ls (1800) , Me (934) DAIc RMSa
Beckman Instruments , Inc. -- SEE Beckman Division'
AND Berkeley Division
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N. J. /
SulllIlit 6-6000 / and 463 West St., New York 14,
N. Y. / Chelsea 3-1000 / *C
Automatic switching. Bell general purp 0 s e

p'

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computers (relay and electronic, digital and
analog) for government use and company's own
use.
Ls Le DAc RGPa
Bendix Aviation Corporation, Bendix Computer Division, 5630 Arbor Vitae St., Los Angele s 45,
Calif. / Oregon 8-2120/ ~C
Electronic information processing machines •.
Small-size low-cost digital differential analyzers and general purp~se digital computeIS;
automatic control systems;. Decimal Digital
Differential Analyzer Model 0-12; gene ra 1
purpose digital computers Model G-15A and
G-15D; analog'to digital conversion e qui pmente
Ms (210) Se0952, division; 1929 corporation) DACc RMSPa
Bendix Aviation Corp., Pacific Division, Nor t h
Hollywood, Calif. / *C
Telemetering systems. Digi t'al systems, controIs, and components.
Ls(2500) Le(1915,
company, 1~37, this division) . Ic RM3a
Bendix Aviation Corporation, Eclipse-Pioneer Division, Teterboro, N. J. / Hasbrouck Heights 8 2000 / *C
Synchros, low inertia servo motors, p y g m y
servo motor generators', etc.
Ls (7000)
Le
(1919) SIc MSa
Bendix Aviation Corporation, Research Laboratories
Division, 4855 4th Ave., Detroit I, Mic h.
/
Temple 2-1300 / *C
Electronic and electromechanical analog ,computers; numerically controlled machines; data
processing equipment; servomechanisms, etc.
Ms(400) Me (1942) ASCc Ra
Benge Associates, McIntyre Bldg., Spruce and College Sts., Asheville, N. C. / Asheville 2-0852/
*C
Management engineers; applications of electronic data processing to office procedures;
costs; analysis of clerical routines leading
to programming.
Ss Me (1939) Cc RCPa
Benson-Lehner Corp., 11930 W. Olympic Blvd., Los
Angeles 64, Calif. / Br 2-3484, GR 9-3723 / ~C
Automatic and semi-automatic devices (b 0 th
analog and digital) for computing, data analyzing, data reduction, optical measuring,
guided missile anlaysis, etc.i and geophysical seismic reader and profile p lot t e r •
Oscillogram trace readers, film rea de rs,
plotters, etc. Components: potentiorooters,
remote control key boards, etc. Commercial
applications of industrial control devices.
Ms(170) Se(1950) DAc RCMSa
Berkeley Division, Beckman Instruroonts, Inc., 2200
Wright Ave., Richmond, Calif. / Landsr.ape 6-7730
EASE computer (Electronic Analog Simulating
Equipment) for solving equations, simulating
systems, etc. Network of computing faci lities over the country.
Se Ac RMSa
Edmund C. Berkeley and Associates, 815 Washington
St., Newtonville 60, Mass. / Decatur 2-5453 or
2-3928
Courses by mail in automatic computing machinery and other scientific subj~cts. Ss(3)
Se(948) Dc Ca Affiliated with Berkeley
Enterprises, Inc.
Berkeley Enterprises, Inc., 36 West 11 St., New
York 11, N. Y. / Algonquin 4-7675 / and 81 5
Washington St., Newtonville 60, Mass. / Decatur
2-5453 or 2-3928 / *C
Small robots, robot show-stoppers, etc. Logical design, applications, marketing, etc. of

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ORG~NIZATIONS

automatic information handling machinery.
Bureau"of the Census, Washington 25, D.C. / *C
Publisher of "Computers and Automation" and
. Tabulation of s tatis tical data by s pe cia 1
other publications. Ss(8) Se(1954) DC RCMS a
machines designed and built for own use, by
Affiliated with Edmund C. Berkeley &~~ares.
commercial punch-card equipment, and by elecBerkshire Laboratories, 732 Bank Village, Green tronic 'computing system (the Univac). Ls (1100)
ville, N. H. / Greenville III / * C '
in Machine Tabulation Division) Le0890 in
Special computer components ~ Ss Se (194 9)
punch card field) DcGa
,lAc RMCa
'
"
Burlingame Associates, 103 Lafayette St., New York
Bill 'Jack Scientific Instrument Co.-SEE under J
13, N.Y. / Digby 9-1240 / *c
Birbeck College, University of London, 21 Torring-'
Analog computers, servo"analyzers,' servo-conton Sq., London W.C. 1,' .England / Langham 1912/
'trol devices, digital voltmeters, etc~ Ss(35)
*C
Me (1928) Ale CSa
'
Maker of ARC, APEXC,' and SEC' digi talcomput.en:;;
Burroughs Corporation, '6071 Second Ave., Detroi t,
electronic digital computers.' Ss (10 to 20 )
Mich. / Triangle 5-2260 / and elsewhere / *C
Se (1946) Dc RCPa
Automatic electronic digital computers, UDEC,
Boeing Airplane Company, Industrial Products DivEIOI. Adding machines, bookkeeping machines,
is ion , Seattle 14, Wash. / Mohawk 4444, / *C
etc. Electronic digi tal tes tcomputers, asBoeing Electronic Analog Computer. Asso~
sembled from pulse control units. Fast ac~s
non-linear equipment. Complete line of auxmagnetic core memory. Pulse control compone~
iliary equipment, including function generaror
servo-mechanisms, etc. This company owns Con-'
and electronic multiplier. Ls(37,000)
LeInstrument Co. Ls(19,000) Le(1896) DSc RMSPa
(1916) Ac RMSa
Burroughs Corp., Electronic Instruments Div., 1209
Borg~Warner Corporation, Byron Jackson Division,
Vine St., Philadelphia, Pa. / Locust 7-1401
Electronics Section, 492 E. Union St., Pasadena
Electronic comput'ing equipment: large auto. 1, Calif. / Ryan 1-5166 / *C,
matic digi tal computer, UDEC; small aut'omatic
Digital pressure, temperature and flow trans~
digital computer, EIOI. ?s ?e Dc MSa
ducers and special purpose digital computers.
Burroughs Corporation, Research Center, Paoli, Pa.
Ms (200) Se (1944, sec tion) Dlc RMa
/ Paoli 3500- / *C"
"
,
Bowmar Instrument Corp., 2415 Pennsylvania 'Street,
Computer 'research'anddevelopnleot.' Computing
Fort Wayne 4, Ind. / Anthony 1463 / *C
service: digital. Development of data handMechanical computer components. Ms (55) Sc
"ling equipment and systems for business, ind, (1951) Ic RMSa'
' ,
us try, government. Ls (1000) Se (1948) Dc RCPa
Bradley 'Laboratories, Inc., 168 Columbus Avenue,
Byron Jackson Divisiori':SEE Borg-~arner Corporation
New Haven, Conn. / Main 4-3123 /' *C ,
California Computer Products, 3927 West Jefferson
Selenium rectifier kits, high temperature rectBl vd., Los" Angeles 16, Calif" / '
.
ifiers'-Selenium diodes, copper oxide diodes,
Digital point plotter (CCP 701) and' other
\ limiters, modulators. , Ms (125) Me (1939) 'Ic
equipment. DAc' RMSa'
'
RMSa
Cambridge Thermionic' Corporation,' 445 Concord Ave.,
Richard D. ,Brew and Comp'any', Inc'., 90 Airpo'rt Rd.,
Cambddge 38, ·Mass. / Trowbridge 6-2800 / *C
Concord, N. H. / Capitol 5-6606 / *C,
' C o m p o n e n t s for computers. Ms (150) Me (1940)
Distributed constant, lumped constant and
Ic RMSCa
ul trasonic delay lines. Ss(36) 'Me (1939) Ic
Canning, Sisson and Associates, 914 South RobertRMSa
'
son Blvd., Los Angeles 35, Calif. / Bradshaw 2Harry P. Bridge Co., 1201 Chestnut St.~ Phila., 7,
4904
Pa. / Locust 80330 / *C,
"
Consultants in utilization of electronic comMarketing, sales, sales promotion, advertisputers and other automatic data-handling equ~
ing,' merchandising, market research, etc.,
mente Publisher of "Data Processing Digest".
for, all products in the computer field" ConSs Se (1954) DACe RCPa
,
suI tants; advertising agency. Ss (12)'
Me
Cannon Electric Company, 3209 Humboldt Street, Los
-' 11930) Ic RCPSa '
Angeles 31, Calif. / Capitol 5-1251 / *C,
The Bris tol Co., Waterb'ury 20, Conn.' / Plaza 64451
Mul tiple circui t connectors for computers, etc.
Automatic recording, indicating, con~r!·C
Approximations for digital computers. Ss(2)
Se(l954) Dc RCPa
Hathaway InstrulOOnt Co. (subsidiary of Hamil ton
Watch Co.), 1315 So. Clarkson St., Denve r 10,
Colo. / Spruce 7-2696 / *C
Transducers, analog and digital recorders,
oscillographs, circuit analysis, etc.
Ms
(80) Me (1939) Ic RCMSa
Helipot Corporation, 916 Mer~dian Ave., Sou t h
Pasadena, Calif. / PY 1-2164 / *C
Precision potentiometers, single-and-mul t i turn, linear and non-linear; turns-counti ng
dials.
Ls(600) Se(1943) Ic R~5a
Hillyer Instrument Co., 54 Lafayette St., Neal York
13, N. Y. / Digby 9-4485 / ~C
Simulators, servomechanisms, sensing,computing, and ac tuating sys terns. Automatic machine
controls.
Ms(lOO) Se(1945) DAICc RMSa
Hogan Laboratories, 155 Perry St., New Yo r k 14,
N. Y. / Chelsea 2-7855 / *C
"Circle" computer. Digital high-speed pr.inters. Facsimile and graphic recording.
Ms
(60) Me (1929) Dc RMSCa
Hughes Research and Development Lab 0 r ato r i e s ,
Hughes Air~raft Co., Culver City, Calif./ Texas
0-7111 / *C
Automatic data-handling systems for commercial
and military applications. Industrimcontrol
systems. Small, automatic electronic digital
and analog computers for airborne use. Firecontrol equipment. Aircraft control. Guided
missiles.
Ls(15,OOO company; 4,000 Res. and
Devt. Labs; 400 c ompu ters) Me (1937) DAc RMSa
Imperial College, Mathematics Dept., Computer Section, Huxley Bldg."Exhibition Road, South -Kensington, London, England
Automatic digital relay computer constructed
and in operation; constructing a second computer with neon tube storage.
Ss Le(1922)
Dc RMa
Industrial Control Co., Wyandanch, L. I., N. Y. /
Midland 3-7548
Servo amplifiers, servo multipliers, 'dynamic
analyzing tester, etc.
Ic RMSa
Institut Blaise Pascal, Laboratoire de Calcul Mecanique, 25, Avenue de la Division Le C1 e r c,
Chatillon-sous-Bagneux (Seine), France / *C
Constructing a digital calculator.
Ss(9.)
Me (1939) Dc RPa
Institute for Advanced Study, Electronia Computer
Project, Princeton, N. J. / *C
High speed general purpose ~scientific) digital computers for own use.
Ss(35) Se(l946)
Dc RPa
IntelligeBt Machines Research Corp., 110 1 Lee
Highway, Arlington, Va. / Jackson 5-6400 / *C
Devices for reading characters on paper, etc.
Pattern interpretation equipment. S ens i n g
mechanisms. Digital computer elements.
Ss
(28) Se (1951) Dc RCMSa
International Business Machines Corp., 590 Madison
Ave., New York 22, N. Y. / Plaza 3-1900 / and
elsewhere / *C
Punch card machines. IBM 650, Magnetic Drum
Calculator. IBM Electronic Data Processi ng
Machines; IBM 704 and 705 (magnetic tap e ,
magnetic drum, magnetic core storage, etc.)
Card Programmed Calculator. Electronic calculating punch IBM 604 and 607. Da tap rocessing equiprent. Automatic Source Record-

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ing Equipment. Computing service: digi ta 1 ;
IBM 701, 702, 605, 604, etc. Card programmed
calculator, punch card machines; over 115 IBM
Service Bureaus all over country plus 4 electronic data processing centers.
Ls(42,000)
Le(1911) Dc RMSa
International Rectifier Corp., 1521 East Grand Av.,
El Segundo, Calif. / Oregon 8-6281 / *C
Manufacturer of germanium diodes, seleni u m
diodes, selenium photocells, selenium rectifiers.
Ms (390) Se (1947) Ic Rffia
International Resistance Co., 401 North Broad St.,
Philadelphia 8, Pa. / Walnut 2-2166 / *C
Fixed and vari able res is tors, rc c t i fie r s ,
chokes, molded printed electronic circuits.
Ls(2200) Me (l924) Ic RMSa
International Telemeter Corp., 2000 Stoner Avenue,
Los Angeles 25, Calif. / Arizone 8-7751 / *C
Systems and devices for clerical and control
applications. Automatic document handling
machinery. I1igh-capaci ty rapid-access f e rri te core memories. High-densi ty plDtographic
information storage. Ferrite storage and
switch cores. Community TV system equipment;
pay-as-you-see TV.
Ms(200)
Se(1951) DCc
RMSa
International Telephone and Telegraph Cor p " 67
Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. / Bowling Green 93800 / >:!'C
Digital delay generators for accurate measurement and generation of time intervals,
etc. Automatic electronic controls for in- -dustrial applications.
Ls (3,500) LeTi 920)
Ic RMSa
Kearfott Co., Inc., Clifton, N. J. / Gregory 21000 / *C
Analog-digi tal converter; digi tal-a n alog
converter; servo motors, synchros,resolvers,

ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS
integrating tachometer generators; analog and
digital computers. Ls(3000) Le(1916)
1Sc
RMSa
Ketay Manufacturing Co.--SEE Norden-Ketay Corp.
A. Kimball Co., 307 West Broadway, New York 13,
N.Y. / Canal 6-2300 / *C
Machine for printing and punching garment
tags and specific type tickets. Input mechanisms. Ms (200) Le (1876) Ic RMSPa
The Kybernetes Corp., Division of Self-Winding
ClockdCo., 9 East 40 St., New York 16, N. Y. /
Murray Hill 3-6030 '/ *C
Automatic logging and digital printout and
digital indicator systems. High and low
speed electronic scanning systems; mechanfum
scanning systems; annunciators. Ms(150) Le
(1885, parent company)
ICc RMSa
Laboratory for Electronics, 75 Pitts St., Boston
14, Mass ~ / Richmond 2-3200 / )!'C
Analog and digi tal computers, special computers to suit customer requirements, delay lines
(mercury, quartz), plug-in packages for computer applications, etc. Ls(800) Se(1946)
DAc
RMSa
Lanston Monotype Machine Co., Barrett Adding Machine Div., 24th & Locust Sts., Phila. 3, Pa. /
Locust 7-4614 / *C
Adding, subtracting, and printing desk calculators. Ms (330) Le (1892) Dc Msa
Leeds and Northrup, 4901 Stenton Ave., Phila. 44,
Pa. / Michigan 4-4900 / *C
Automatic recorders and controls. Ls(3150)
Le (1899) Cc RMSa
Librascope, Inc., 808 Western Ave., Glendale, Calif. / Ch 5-2677 /
*C
Mechanical and electrical computers, Computing and controlling equipment for in ili ta r y
applications and for banks, department s tons ,
inventory and production control, etc. Airborne digi tal computers. General pur po s e
computer under const~uction. All phas~s of
data-handling. Ls(1200; approximately 350
on digital computers) Me (1937) DASc RMSa
Librascope, Inc.--SEE also Minnesota Electronics
Corporation
Arthur De Little, Inc., 30 Memorial Drive, Cambridge 42, Mass. / University 4-9370 / *C
Analog digi tal converter, "Automatic Digi tal
Recorder of Analog Data" (ADRAD). Conversion
and input devices. Consultation concerning
electronic equipment requirements for handling data; mathematical analysis and programming for digital computers. Ls(800)
Le
RCa
(1886) Ic
Litton Industries, 336 N. Foothill Rd., Bever 1 y
Hills, Calif. / Cr 4-7411; Br 2-0661 / *C
Purchaser of 'Digi tal Control Systems, Inc.
Radar systems with monopu1se techniques;
countermeasures, inertial navigation, automatic flight control, telemetering devices,
communications equipment, instrumentation and
test equipment, servomechanisms. New digitm
differential Analyzer. Ls(llOO) Se(1953)
DAlc
RMSa
Log Abax S.A., 146, Champs Elys~es, Paris 8, Fram2
/ Elysees 61-24 / *C
Collaborating wi th Insti tut Blaise Pasc al on
computing devices. 198 register automatic
accounting machine. Analysis of punched
tapes and connection with punch card or calculating machines. Ms (700) Se (1949) Dc RMSa
I

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Logistics Research, Inc., 141 So. Pacific Avenue,
Redondo Beach, Calif.' / Oregon 8-7108 /
*C
General purpose digital computers and computing systems (ALWAC). Punched card convertezs,
magnetic tape auxiliary storage. Data-reduc~
ion and data-handling systems, input and output equipment; automatic graph-plotters; magnetic heads; automatic curve followers. Ms
(112) Se (1952) Dlc RMSa
W. S. Macdonald & Co.--SEE Electronics Corporation
of America, Business Machines Division
Machine Statistics Co., 27 Thames St., New York 6,
N.Y. / Cortlandt 7-3165
Computing service: IBM 604, punch card machines, IBM 650 expected. Ss(35) Se(1951) Dc
CPa
Magnetics, Inc., Box 230, Butler, Pa. / Butler 71745 / *C
Tape wound cores of u1 tra-thin high-permeabili ty materials, for computers, etc. Ms (275)
Se(1949) Ic
RMSa
Magnetics Research, Inc., 142 King St., Chappaqua,
N.Y. / Chappaqua 1-0052 /
*C
Magnetic components for analog and dig ita 1
systems and computers; miniature "magnetic
shift registers; etc. Ss(15) Se(1952} DAIC
RCMSa
Marchant Calculators, Inc., Oakland 8, Calif. /*C
Automatic electric calculators (desk type) •
Marchant-Raytheon Binary-Octal Calculator(desk
type). Marchant "Miniac" electronic digi tal
computer. Computer components. Data processing equiplOOnt. (See also Marchant Research
Ipc.) Ls(2500) Le(1910) Dc RMSa
Marchant Research, Inc., 1475 Powell St., Oakland
8, Calif. (subsidiary of Marchant Calculators,
Inc.) / Olympic 2-6500 /
*C
. Electronic digital computers (including Miniac). Magnetic storage systems, qIagnetic
heads, data processing equipment including
input-output devices; computer components.
Ss(55 this division) Se(1950 this division)
Dc
RMSCa
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Digital
Computer Laboratory, 211 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
39, Mass. / Eliot 4-3311
"Whirlwind" electronic digital computer. Ms
(300'" Se (19451) DAc RCPa
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of
Statistical Services, Cambridge 39, Mass. / UnW.
4-6900 /
Computing service: digi tal; IBM 604, card
programmed calculator, punch card machines.
Ss Se Dlc
RCPa
Mathematisch Centrum. 2e Boerhaavess traat 49,
Amsterdam, Netherlands. /
*C
Relay computer in use; electronic computer
under construction. Ms(60) Se(1946) Dc
RCPa
The W. L. Maxson Corp., 460 West 34 St., New York
1, N.Y. / Longacre 5-1900 / and elsewhere
Servomechanisms, analog computers, and digit~
al computers for fire control, navigation,
etc. Automatic control machinery. Ls(3000)
Me (1935)
DASCc
RMSa
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Multiple
Fellol'lship on Computer Components, University of
Pi ttsburgh, Pittsburgh 13, Pa. / Ma 1-1100 X378
/ *C
High temperature printed circuit components;
electro-optical storage devices.
S8 (5)

ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS

Se(1950)
Dc
RCa
Mico InstrulOOnt Company, 80 Trowbridge St., C a mbridge 38, Mass. I Kirkland 7-8660 I *C
Toroid transformers, toroid inductors; ferrim
core units for computers, etc. Ss(20)
Me
(1934)
Ic
MSa
Mid-Century Instrumatic Corp., 611 Broadway, New
York 12, N.Y. I Spring 7-4016 I
*C
Analog computers; six-channel recorders; elec-'
tronic function generators; electronic ~td­
ers. Ms(50)
Se(1950) Ac
RMSa
William Miller Instruments, Inc., 325 No. Halstead
Ave., Pasadena 8, Calif.
Milac analog computer. Electronic instrumems
for precision testing and measurement.
Ac
R~a

Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co., Industrial
Division, 4580 Wayne Ave.', Philadelphia 44, Pa.
I Michigan 4-8300 I
*C
Automatic controllers. Brown In strumen ts.
Servo components used in computers. Recording and indicating instruments and control
equipment, etc. Amplifiers, converters, balancing motors, potentiometers, etc. Ls(3200)
Le(1859) ACc RMSa
Minneapolis-Hone~~ell Regulator Co.--SEE also Da~
matic Corp. and Doelcam
Minnesota Electronics Corp., 133 Santa Anita Ave.,
Burbank, Calif. I
*C
Digital and analog computers. Magnetic components, magnetic decision elelOOnts. D a t a
reduction systems, telemetering. Subsidiary
of Librascope Inc. Ss(35) Se(1946)
DAlc
RMSa
Monrobot Corp., Morris Plains, N.J. I Morristown
4-7200 I
*C
Monrobot automatic electronic digital computers; accounting machines. Subsidiary of Monroe Calculating Machine Co. Ms(lOO) Se(l94~
Dc

R~a

Monroe Calculating Machine Company, Orange, N.J.I
Orange 3-6600 I and elsewhere I
*C
Desk calculating machinery for adding, calculating, and bookkeeping. See also Monrobot
Corp. Ls(4000)
Le(19l2)
Dc
RMSa
Moore School of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of
Pennsylvania, 200 South 33 St., Phila., 4, Pa.
Computing service: analog, digital; differential analyzer, card programmed calculator,
punch"card machines. Ms(80) Me (1923) DAc
RCPa
F. L. Moseley Co., 409 No. Fair Oaks, Pasadena,
Calif. I Ryan 1-8998 I
*C
n~o-coordinate X-Y recorder, point plotter,
digital voltmeters, curve follower, etc. Ss
(45)
Se (1951)
Ic MSa
Mountain Systems, Inc., 864 Franklin Ave., Thornwood, N.Y. I Pleasantville 2-3330 I
*C
Electronic data processing systems (Modac);
special purpose digital computing systems for
business and scientific applications, magnetic drums. Ss (16)
Se
Dc
R~Ca
National Bureau of Standards, Applied Mathematics
Division, Washington 25, D.C. I Emerson 2-4040
I *C
Computing service; Seac, Dyseac, and punch
card machines; for government and government
contractors only. ,Ms (50) Se (1947) DIe RCPa
National Bureau of Standards, Data Processing Systems Division, Washington 25, D.C. I Emerson 2- 23 -

4040
Digital and analog computers, data processing and control systems, input-output devices,
storage elements, transistors, diodes, delay
lines, e.tc. Designed, assembled, and maintain Seac; des igned and assembled Dy s ea c ;
designed several special purpose machines.
Ms (80) Se (19·1'3) DAc
RMBGa
National Bureau of Standards, Institute for Numerical Analysis-SEE University of California at
Los Angeles, Department.of Mathematics, Numerical Analysis Research
The National Cash Register Co., South Main and K
Sts., Dayton 9, Ohio / Adams 6-111 /
*C
Digital computers, data processing machines,
input-output devices, computing systems. CRC
102-A and 102-D general purpose computers rurl
other computers. Building new unit at Hawthorne, Calif. which will house electronic
research activity; manufacturing will connmue
at Dayton. Ls(13,OOO at Dayton)
Le(1884)
Dc
RCrwfia
National Co., Inc., 61 Sherman St., Malden, Mass.
I Malden 2-7954
Communications receivers; some co mput i n g
equipment. Ls (700) ?e Ic RMSa
National Union Electric Corp., 350 Scotland Rd.,
*C
Orange, N.J. I Orange 2-6600 I
Elec tron tubes, semi-conductor diodes, and
transistors for computers, etc. Ms(150)
Me (1929)
Ic
RMa
National Physical Laboratory, Control Mechanisms
and Electronics Division, Teddington, Middlese~
England. I
*C
Digital computers, electronic simulators, data
recording. Designer and builde~ of the Pilot
Model of ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) •
Collaborates with English Electric Co. Ls
(1000; this division, 40) Le(1900) Dlc RCPMa
The Newton Co., 55 Elm St., Manchester, Conn. I
Mitchell 3-5104 I
*C
Data processing equipment. Analog to dig~
converters; simulators; automatic typewrirers.
Ms (150) Se (1947) Dlc RMSa
, Norden-Ketay Corporation, 99 Park Ave., New York
16, N.Y. I Murray Hill 7-0498 I and elsewherel
*C
Automatic control systems, computers, fire
control systems, bomb sights, navigational
systems, digital converters, synchros, servo
motors, resolvers, servo amplifiers, resolver amplifiers, airborne instruments. S~~
iaries are Vari-Ohm Corporation, Sunrise Higr
way, Amityville, L.I., N.Y.; Nuclear Science
and Engineering Corp., Box 10901, Pittsburgh
36, Pa.; Scientific Specialties Corp., Snow
and Unio'n Sts., Boston, Mass.; The Frohman
Manufacturing Co., Inc., Miami, Florida. Ls
(3000) Se(1955)
DACSc RMSa
North American Aviation, Inc., 12214 Lakewood Blvd~
Downey, Calif. I Logan 5-8651 I
*C
General purpose computers, differential analyzers. Special purpose analog computers for
algebraic and differential equations.
Ls
(1200 in computer work) Se (1946) ADc RMSa
North American Philips Co., Inc., Research & Control Instruments Div., 750 So. Fulton Ave., Mt.
Vernon, N.Y. I Mount Vernon 4-4500 I
*C
Analog computers. Ratemeters. Semi-automatic X-ray machine that determines percent of

ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS

12 different elements in a specimen, etc. Ms
(250) Se (1942) Ale
RPtf)a
Northrop Aircraft Co., Hawthorne, Calif. I
*C
Computing center; develops, maintains, operates own computing equipment. Computing service: analog, digital. Digital plotter.
Data reduction and analysis. Development of
computing systems on order. Ms(70 this project) Se(1950 this project) DAc RCPa
Notifier Manufacturing Co., 239 South 11 St., Lincoln 8, Nebraska I Lincoln 5-2946 I
*C
Automatic control machinery for fire alarms.
Automatic control circuits, computer cirelli ts,
switching circuits. Memory and pulse storing
devices, transistor devices. Two small laboratory type computers under development. Ss
(35) Se(1949) CIc RMSCa
Nuclear Development Corporation of America, 5 New
St., White Plains, N.Y. I White Plains 8-5800
I *C
Selection, design, and building of special
purpose data-handling systems. Programming.
Operate 01'1n "Datatron" providing domputi n g
services. Also work wi th machine /b u ilders 00
automatic control machinery and autama~ materials handling machinery. Ms(17~) Se(l94m
OCMc RM5Ca
I
Nuclear Science and Engineering Corp.-Subsidiary
of Norden-Ketay Corporation, Which see.
NUDErical Analysis Research-SEE Unive~srty of California at Los Angeles
Olivetti Corp. of America, 580 Fifth Ave., Ne t'l
York,36, N.Y. I Judson 2-0637 I and Ing. C. Olivetti & Co., S.P.A., Ivrea, Italy I
*C
Desk adding, calculating, and printing machines. Fully automatic printing calculators~
Ls(6000)
Le(1908)
Dc RMSa
Ortho Filter Corp., 196 Albion Ave., Paterson 2,
N.J. I Mulberry 4-5858 I
*C
Pluggable uni ts for computers, cathode ray
amplifiers, power supplies, wiring of COmp2E
racks, toroids, etc. Ms(75) Se(1946)
Ic
RMSa
John Oster Mfg. Co., Avionic Div., Racine, wisc.1
Fast response magnetic resolvers, etc. Ac
RMSa
Panellit, Inc., 7401 No. Hamlin A'Te., Skokie, Ill.
I Orchard 5-2500 I
*C
Equipment for automatic control: oooulinated
and graphic control panels for process var-.
iables; multiple-point scanning systems, annunc i a tor s ys tems • Ms (375) Se ISCMc RCM5Pa
Pennsylvania State University, X-Ray and Crystal
Structure Lab., Dept. of Physics, University
Park, Pa. I Adams 8-8441 X2125 I
*C
X-RAC computer for crystal electron density
functions. S-FAC for structure factor calculations. Ms(55) Se(1946) DAc RPa
Phebco, Inc., 3640 Woodland Ave.,' Baltimore 15 ,
Md. I Mohawk 4-2350 I
·C
Analog-to-digital converter; digital computers. Ms(55)
Se(1952)
Dc RMSa
George A. Philbrick Researches, Inc., 230 Cong~
St., Boston 10, Mass. I Liberty 2-5464 I ·C
Philbrick electronic analog cQmputing equipment and components. Computing service: an~
log; Philbrick equipDEnt. Ss(5) Se(1946) Ac
RCM5a
Phillips Control Corp., Joliet, Ill. I Joliet 33431 I
*C
Relays for computers, etc. Ms(350) Se(1946)

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Ic RMSa
Photon, Inc., 58 Charles St., Cambridge 38, Mass.
I Trowbridge 6-1177 I *C
Machinery for composing type by photographs.
First photographically-composed book has ~
published. Ms(IOO) Me (1940) Dlc RCMSa
Pi-Square Engineering Co., Inc., 230 Congress St~
Boston 10, Mass. I Hubbard 2-3225 I
*C
Analysis and solution of engineering prohlems.
Computing services. Analog computing equipment available. Ss Se(1954) ASCc RCPa
Pitney-Bowes, Inc., Stamford, Conn. I *C
Postage meters. Tax-stamping meters. "Tickometer" counting and/or imprinting machines.
Ls(3000) Le(1918) Ic
MSa
Potter and Brumfield Mfg. Co., Inc., Princeton,
Indiana I 1596 I
*C
Electric relays and stepping switches for
computers, etc. Ls(850) Me (1931) Ic RMSa
Potter InstruDEnt Co., 115 Cutter Mill Rd., Great
Neck, N.Y. I Great Neck 2-9532 I
*C
Electronic counters. Magnetic and perforaUrl
paper tape handlers; digital printer. Shift
regis ters • Magnetic core memory. Ran do m
access DEmory. High-speed printer ("FlyiJJJ
Typewri ter") : t»2 lines of characters printed per second. Analog-to-digital converter.
Ms(115) Se(1942) Dc
RMSa
Powers-Samas Accounting Machines, Ltd., England I
Punch card tabulating equipment using small,
medium, and standard cards. Agency is Underwood Corp., which SEE. Ls(6000) Le(1916)
Dlc RMSa
Price Waterhouse & Co., Management Advisory Services, 56 Pine &t., New York 5, N.Y. I Whitehall 3-5900 I
Applications of systems and equipDEnt to data
processing in business, etc. LS Le(1895)
Dlc RCPa
Productions Electroniques, 8, rue Laugier, Paris
17, France I
Collaborating with Institut Blaise Pascal on
magnetic recording devices. Ic RMSa
Purdue Univ., Statistica 1 Laboratory, West lafayette, Indiana I Lafayette 92-2542 I
*C
Computing service: digital; Datatron digital
computer; punch card machines., Ss(15) Se
(1951)
Dlc RCPa
[J{'l=-f7Ac..
Radio Corporation of America, -R6-A--\Li-G-t-or Division,
Camden, N. J.
Digi tal computers and data processing systems
for business applications. Bi~mac.
Ls Le
Dc RMSa
Radio Corporation of America, Tube Division, .415
South 5th St., Harrison, ,N. J. I Humboldt 5-39001
·C
Tubes, transistors for computers. Ls Le Ic
RMSa
Radio Development & Research Corp. (Ger man i u m
Products, a subsidiary), 26 Cornelison Avenue,
Jersey City, N. J. I Rector 2-2337 «New Yo r k
Ci ty) I ·C
Transistors, diodes, rectifiers,for computers.
Ms(IOO) Me (1938) Ic RMSCa
Ramo-Wooldridge Corp., Computer Systems Division,
5740 Arbor Vitae, Los Angeles 45, Ca~if. I Oregon 8-0311 I ·C
Airborne digital computer systems and da t a
Ls(I,Oop)
Se(1953)
processing systems.
Ole RMCa
The Rand Corporation, 1700 Main St., Santa Mooica,

__ ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS

Calif. / and'in Lexington, Mass. (digital co mputer programming group) / *C
Large digi tal computers for scientific and
business uses; analog computers for scientific
computations.
Ls(l,OOO) Se(1946) DAlc RPGa
Raymond Rosen Engineering Products, Inc.,32Walnut
St., Philadelphia 4, Pa. / Evergreen 2-5015 /*C
Computers used as end item in information
transmittal systems, telemetering s ys te ms.
Ms(365) Me (1943) Ic RMa
Raytheon Manufacturing Co., Waltham, Mass. / Twinbrook 3-5860 (effective 12/5/55) / .C
Radar, sonar, communications, fire control,
microwave and telemetering equipment, p owe r
and receiving tubes, diodes, transistors,
. elec tro-hydraulic servo controls, automat i c
machine-tool duplicators. Computer w 0 r k
transferred to Datamatic Corporation, whic h
see.
Ls(20,000) Me (1925) DAc RMSa
Raytheon Manufacturing Co., Division: Receivingand
Cathode Ray Tube Operations, 55 Chapel St., Newton 58, Mass. / Bigelow 4-7500 / .C
SeJDiconduc tor diodes, transistors, elec tro n
tubes, for computers.
Ls Le(1923) Ic RMSa
J. B. Rea Co., 1723 Cloverfield Blvd., Santa Monica, Calif. / Exbrook 3-7201 / *C
Automatic control systems, general and special purpose digital computers, flight cmtr 0 1
systems for helicopters, automatic c ru is e
control for aircraft, torpedo tracking s y stems, automatic data handling systems, aerodynamic systems analysis, simulation, no nlinear servo systems. Magnetic drums, m~netic
heads, analog-to-digital converters, etc.
Computing service: analog"digital, simulation;
Electronic Associates' analog computer, card
programmed calculator.
Ms (80)
S e (1951)
DASCc RMSCa
Reeves Instrument Co., 215 East 91 St., New Yor k
28, N. Y. / Trafalgar 6~OOO
Fire-control equipment. "REAC" electr on i c
analog computers. Computing service: analog;
Reac.
Ls Me Ac RMSa
Remington Rand Univac Division of Sperry Ran d
Corporation, 315 4th Ave., New York 10, N. Y. /
Spring 7-8000 / and elsewhere / *C
Digital computers (Univac System, Univac
Scientific, Univac File-Computer, Univac120
and Univac 60 Punched-Card Electronic C 0 mputers). Analog computers; special purpose
computers. Converters: card to tape, tap e
to card, punched paper tape to magnetic tape,
and magneti,c tape to punched paper tap e •
High speed printers, servomechanisms, magnetic drum storage systems, input and output
devices. Punched-card tabulating equipment.
Ls(over 6,000; 2,500 on computers) Le Dlc
RCPa
Remington Rand Univac Division of Sperry Ra n d
Corporation, Univac Computing Center, 314 4th
Ave., New York 10, N. Y. / Spring 7-8000
Computing service; digital; Univac, punchedcard equipment, etc.
Ms Se(1954) Dc RCPa
Remington Rand Univac Division of Sperry Ra n d
Corporation (formerly Eckert-Mauchly Division),
2300 W. Allegheny Ave., Philadelphia, P a. /
Baldwin 3-7300 / *C
All purpose digital computers. Univac Factronic System.
Ls(600) Se(1946) Dc RCMa
Remington Rand Division of Sperry Rand Corp oration, Engineering Research Associates Division,

1902 W. Minnehaha Ave., St. Paul, Minn. / Nestor 9601 / *C
Development of digital computers, automati c
data-handling and control systems, mechanisms,
and weapons. Pulse circuits, magnetic cores,
magnetic drums, transistors, printed wiring,
miniaturization, and precise mechanisms used
in th~ design of these systems. Automa tic
digital computers ERA 1101, 1102, 1103; Speed
Tally; CAA Flight Plan Storage Systems; the
Logistics Computers.
Ls(l,050)
Se(1946)
Dc RMCPa .
Remington Rand Division of Sperry Rand Corporation,
Engineering Research Associates Division, 510
18th St. South, Arlington, Va •
Computing service: digital; ERA 1103 t y p e •
Ls (Se(1946) Dc RCPa
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Computer Laboratory, 110 8th St., Troy, N. Y. / Ashley 2-3000,
X240 / *C
Computing service: analog; Reac, precisio n
magnetic tape recorders for analog computing
applications.
Ss(8) Se(1952) Ac RCPa
Resistance Products Company, 914 S. 13th St., Harrisburg, Pa. / CE 6-9006 / *C
Resistors -- high voltage, high resistance,
standard types, encapsulated, hermetic all y
sealed, subminiature, etc., for computer and
other uses-.
?s?e Ic RMSa
Rich Electronic Computer Center -- SEE Georg i a
Institute of Technology
Richardson Camera Company, Inc., 171 W. Magnolia
Blvd., Burbank, Calif. / Thornwall 2-0234 / *C
Theodolite cameras, pulse~ata cameras, film
readers, film assessors, electronic counters.
Ss(18) Me (1934) Ic RMSCa
Robotyper Corporation, 125 Allen St., Henders 0 nville, N. C. / Hendersonville 4246
Automatic typing equipment that can be associated with any electric typewriter, using a
record roll pneumatically operated. Ic RMSa
Rutherford Electronics Company, 3707 s. Robertson
Blvd., Culver City, Calif. / Texas 0-4362 / *C
Pulse ins truments, time measuring s y stems,
time delay generators.
Ss(15) Se(1950) Ic
RMSa
Saunders & Co., 66 Westland Rd., Weston 93, Mass./
*C
Digital computing machinery; informatio nhandling devices; related devices.
55 Se
Ic Sa
Scientific Computing Service, 23 Bedford Square,
London WC I, England / Museum 0808 / *C
Problem solving, consulting. Computing service: digital.
Ss(15) Me (1937) Dlc RCPa
Scientific Special ties Corp -- Subsid i a r y 0 f
Norden-Ketay Corporation, which see.
Servo Corporation of America, 2020 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park, N. Y. / Fieldstone 7-2180/
*C
Servomechanisms. Automatic controls. Analysis
and synthesis for controls manufacturer s •
Temperature controls by infra-red radiation.
Industrial controls. Servo components and
test equipment. Analog and digital computers.
Ms(350) Se(1946) DASCc RMSa
Servomechanisms, Inc., Post & Stewart Ave., Westbury, L. 1., N. Y., / Edgewood 4-2700 / a 1 s 0
12500 Aviation Blvd, Hawthorne, Calif. / 0 s borne 5-7111 / *C
Automatic electronic and electro-mechanical

ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS
control systems and components, analog co mputers, instrumentation. Airborne dig ita 1
computers, digital transducers.
Ls(800)
Se(l946) AS ICc RMSa
'Shallcross Mfg. Company, Jackson & Pusey Avenues,
Collingdale, Pa. / Farragut 9-5100 / *C
Wirewound resistors, switches, delay lines,
for computer and other uses.
Ms(25)
Me
(1929) Ic RMSa
Shepard Laboratories, Summit, N. J.
High-speed typer (up to 1800 characters per
second).
Ss Se(1950) DIc RMSa
Soci6te d'Electronique et d'Automatisme, 138 Blvd
de Verdun, Courbevoie, Seine, France / Defens e
41-20 / )'''c
Analog and digital computers and components.
Servomechanisms; electronic equipment for
machine tools; electronic recorders. Analog
computer OME-L2. General purpose digi tal
computer CAB 2.022.
Ms(320) Se(1948) DASc
RSMa
Societe des Servomechanismes Electroniques, 1 rue
Chanez, Paris 16e, France
Sc RMSa
Sola Electric Co., 4633 W. 16th St., Chicago 50,
Ill. / Bishop 2-1414 / *C
Constant voltage transformers, DC power supplies, etc., for computer and other use s •
~~(250)
Me (1930) Ic RMSa
\ Sorensen & Co.~ Inc., 375 Fairfield Ave., SUrnUord,
*C
Conn. / Fireside 8-5311 /
Computer power supplies. Ms(300)
Me (1943)
Ic
RMSa
Soroban Engineering, Inc., Box 117, Melbourne, Fm.
Electronic digital computers of the FLAC and
SEAC type; computer auxiliary equipment such
as high-speed paper tape perforators (240
characters per second), coded automatic keyboards. Devices for converting e 1 e c t ric
typewri ters to control by punched paper tape.
Paper tape readers; computer "do-i t-yourself"
ki ts; automatic format tabulators and reportwriting machines; computer consulting services; etc. Ss Se(1953) Dc
RMSa
Southern Electronics Corporation, 239 West Orange
Grove Ave., Burbank, Calif. / Victoria 9-3193
/
*C
Precision polystyrene capacitors.
Ss(55)
Se(195l) Ic
RMSa
Specialties, Inc., Syosset, N.Y., and Charlottesville, Va. / Syosset, Walnut 1-2345; Charlottesville, 3-5131 /
*C
Precision potentiometers, servos, magnetic
amplifiers, transformers, sensing elements,
etc. for computer and other uses. Ms(300)
Se(194l) Ic
RMSa
Sperry Rand Corporation, Sperry Gyroscope Division, Great Neck, N.Y. / Fieldstone 7-3600 / *C
Ordnance; fire-control equipment. Automatk
controls. Navigation equipment, sea and air
Radar, Loran, gyrocompasses, precision instRMSa
ruments. Ls(18,000) Le(19l0) Ac
Sperry Rand Corporation-also SEE Remington Ranu
Divisions
Sprague Electric Co., 377 Marshall Street, North
Adams, Mass. / Mohawk 3-5311 /
*C
Capacitors~ miniature, and low di~lectri~
hysteresis loss, for computer applications.
Standard capacitors; precision and power
type, resistors; pulse transformers; radio
interference filters; shift registers; prin- 26 -

ted circuits. Ls(6000) Le(1926) Ic RMSa
The Standard Register Co., Dayton I, Ohio / Adans
6181
Electronic equipment' (called "Stanomatic"),
capable of sensing or reading printed codes
on business documents and translating them
into digital pulses which will actuate office machinery such as card punches, tape perforators, computers, etc. Ls Le DIc RMSa
Stanford Computation Center, Stanford University,
,Stanford, California /
*C
Computing service; one CPC ?s ?e Dc RPCa
Stereatronics, 66 Westland Rd., Weston 93, Mass.
/
*C
Solid-state information-handling de vi c_ es.:
transistor, magnetic, diode, ferro-etectric,
gas tubes, etc. Ss Se DIc RMSa
Stromberg-Carlson (West Coast), Charactron & Special Products Laboratories, 3235 Hancock Street,
San Diego 10, Calif. / Cypress 8-7701 /
*C
The Charactron, a computer output device for
"debugging", tactical display, etc., converting coded information into tabular or graphic alphanumeric information on a cathode-rqytube screen, Analog-to-digi tal convers i on
units. Ms(115) Se(1950)
Ic
RMSa
Swedish Board for Computing Machinery, Drottninggatan 95A, (P. O. Box 6131), Stockholm 6, Swedm
/ Stockholm 23 55 90 /
*C
State central institution for research, development, and computation service on largescale machines. Operates two automatic digital computers, BARK and BESK, designed and
built by the Board, Research on numerical
analysis; development of new computers. Computing service (digital) using BARK and BESK. Ss(30) Se(1949) Dc RMCPa
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., Electronic Systems Division, 100 First St., Wal tham, Mass. /
Twinbrook 3-9200 /
*C
'
Special purpose digital computer equipment,
Ls
Le (1901) Dc' RMSa
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., Radio and Tebvision Div., 70 Forsyth St., Boston 15, Mass.
/ Kenmore 6-8900 I
*C
Electronic digital computers using Rrinted
circuit techniques. Subassemblies of diodes
and triodes. Computer components. Ls(company 25,000; this division 190) Le(1901);
this division 1949) DAt
R~Sa
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., Woburn Divisioo,
. 100 Sylvan Rd., Woburn, Mass. I Woburn 2-3500
Semiconductor components, crystal diodes, !
transistors, and tubes for computer and
other uses. Ls Le Ic RMa
Systematics, Inc., 103 Lyndon St., Hermosa Beac~
Calif. / Frontier 2-7811
,
Computer components. Ss Se(1955) Dc RMSa
Taller and Cooper, 75 Front St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
/ Ulster 8-0500 /
*C
Data recording and conversion system, printerst perforators, analog to digital converters. Function generators, computers. Mechanical function generator control of machine tools and allied mechanisms. Toll equipme n t for bridges, highways, turnpikes.
Ms(350) Me (1926) Dlc
RMSa
Tally Register Corp., 5300 14th Ave., N.W., Seattle 7, Wash. / Dexter 5500 /
*C
Special purpose business machines; electromagnetic pulse counters and pulsed relays;

ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS

high-speed data reduction systems for t elemetering applications; digital-input, m~ltipIe-symbol X-Y plotter with continous ,yrJd
printing and numeric abcissa. Ss(25) Se(19ro)
DICMc Rr.5Ca
Taylor Instrument Co., Rochester, N.Y.
Automatic controllers. Ls Le Cc RMSa
Techni trol Engineering Co., 2751 North 4 S tree t,
Philadelphia 33, Pa. / Garfield 6-9105 / *C
Computing and control equipment. Com pIe te
digital systems. Components, pulse transfamr
ers. Electrical and acoustic delay 1 in e s _.
High-speed memories. Digital ,computer "bl.reks"..
Ms(105) Se(1947) DAc
RMSa
Technology Instrument Corporation, 531 Main Str~
*C
Acton, Mass. / Colonial 3-7711 /
Potentioneters: linear and non-linear; single
turn and multiturn; for computer and ,otper
uses. Ms(355) Se(1946) Ic
Ma
Telecomputing Corp., 12838 Saticoy St., No.·Hollywood, Calif. / Po 5-8160 and St 7-8181 / *C
Automatic data reading, recording, and plotting equipment. Automatic business data accu~
ulation and analysis equipment; multiple access storage systems.. Computing service; ~
log and digital; card programmed calculators,
automatic graph readers, digital p lo_tters,
punch card machines.. Ms(250) Se(1947) DC~k
RMSPa
Telequipment Corp., 80 Broad St., New York 4, N.Y.
and Sea Cliff, N.Y. / Whitehall 3-7028 ~Glen
Cove 4-2990 /
*C
Inexpensive equipment ("code stacks It) for attaching to an electric typewriter, adfrng machine, cash register, calculator, etc., sothat
it may control a tape perforator and punch
paper tape simultaneously with typing. Ss
Se Dlc
RMSa
Teleregister Corporation, 445 Fairfield Avenue,
Stamford, Conn. / Fireside 8-4291, and ( New
York City wire) Ludlow 5-8900 /
*C
Digital special purpose computers. Damprocessing systems for special applications: llr
ventory control, invoicing, travel reservations, flight data, stock market quotations,
etc. Electro-mechanical digital display systerns. Magnetro~ic Reservisor, in use at American Airlines reservations center. ~etronic stock quotation system in use in Toronto StocIc Exchange. Ls (550) Me (1928) Dlc
RMSa
Teletypesetter Corporation, 2752 Clybourn Avenue,
Chicago 14, Ill. / Graceland 7-5250 / and e~ewhere /
*C
Tape perforators and operating units for local or distant automatic control of Linotypes
and Intertypes. Ms(60) Me (1929) Ic RMSa
Texas Instruments, Inc., 6000 Lemmon Ave., Dallas
9, Texas / Dixon 1781 / and elsewhere / *C,
Germanium and silicon transistors and diodes,
precision resistors for computer and oth er
uses. Ls(3000) Me (1930) Ic
RMSa
Tobe Deutschmann Corporation, 921 Providence H~hway, No 1'\VOod, Mass. / N01'\Vood 7,,;,,2620 /
*C
Capacitors for computers, etc.; electronic.
noise suppression products (interference fil~
ters).. Ms(400) Le(1922) Ic
RM5CPa
Transistor Products, Inc., 241 Crescent St., Waltham 54, Mass. / Waltham 5-9330 /
*C
Transistors, diodes. Ms(150) Se(1952) Ic
RM5a

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Tung-Sol Electric Inc.,. 95 8th Ave., Newark 4, N.
J. / Humboldt 2-4200 / *C
Electron tubes, transistors, for computer arrl
other uses. Ls(6000) Le(1904) Ic RMa
Ul tras onic Corp., 640 Memori al Drive, Cambridge,
Mass. / University 4-6800 /
*C
Analog computers, digital techniques, servomechanisms., machine tool controls, etc. Ms
(475) Se(1945) DASc R~Sa
Underwood' Corp., One Park Ave., New York 16, N.Y.
/ Lexington 2-7000 / General Research Lab., 56
Arbor St., Hartford 6, Conn.; and elsewhere / *C
Accounting machines, adding machines, typetvriters .. Elliott-Fisher and Sundstrand Machines.. Unde~vood Samas punched card accounting machines and systems. Underwood e~tric
typewri ters, used in Harvard Mark II calculator. ELECOM electronic computers .. SEE also
Electronic Computer Division of Underwood
Corporation.' Ls(company 13,000;' laboratory,
100) Le(1894) Dlc
RMSa
.
Union Switch and Signal Co., Division of Westinghouse Airbrake, Pittsburgh 18, and Swissvale, Pa.
Railroad signaling and control systems. Aircraft flight simulators; mobile test rack for
testing analog computers including simulato~
Ls(4000) Le Ic
RMSa
U.S. Air Force, Aeronautical Research Laboratory,
System Dynamics Branch, Wright Air DeveloplIEnt
Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio /
KE 7111, X28235 /
*C
Has Oarac, CPC, ERA 1103; is acquiring IBM
704, Reeves 055. Ms (62) Se (1948) DAc RCGPa
U.S. Air Force, Cambridge Research Center, 230 Albany St., Cambridge 39, Mass. / University 44720
Developed the ABC (Automatic Binary Computerl
Has a Computer Research Corp-l02. Ms Me Dlc
Ga
U.S. Air Force, Computation Research Sec., Wright
Air Development Center, Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
.
Computing service, analog and digital: Card
progrannned calculators, Reacs, punch.card;
. for government only. Se DAlc
RCPa
U.S. Air Force, Inst. of Technology, Wright-Patte~
son Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio /
*C
Electronic strategy machine, conceived by L.I.
Davis. Philbrick Reac and GEDA equipment on
hand. Ms (300) Se (1946) DAlc Ga
U.S. Air Force, Rome Air Development Center, Statistical Services Division, Griffiss Air Fo r c e
Base, Rome, N.Y.
Elecom 120, Bendix Digital Differential Analyzer D 12, Reeves Electronic Analog Computer,
Benson-Lehner data reduction equipment, considerable IBM data processing equipment. Gbmputing service: analog, digital; for government only •. Se
Dlc
RCPa
U.S. Ar~, Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Md. /
*C
Has Bell, Edvac, Eniac, Ordvac computers and
others.. Developing supplementary and modernizing components.. Computing service (digita1) using these machines; for government and
government contractors only. Ms Le DAc Ga
U.S. Navy, Naval Proving Ground, Computation and
~ Exterior Ballistics Lahoratory, Dahlgren, Va. /
X627 /
*C
Has three digital computers - Harvard Aiken
Relay (Mark II), Aiken Dahlgren Elec tr on i c

ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS'

(Mark III), and Naval Ordnance Research Cal~
culator (NORC). Computing service u s i it 9
these machines; for government and govenment
contractors only. Ms(145) Se(1942)
Dc
RCPGa
U.S. Navy, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington
25, D.C. /
*C
NAREC digital computer. Analog computers,
servo mechanisms and data reduction.
Ls
(3200) Le(1923) DASc RCGPa
U.S. Navy, Office of Naval Research, Special Devices Center, Port Washington, New York / Port
Washington 7-3800 /
*C
Training devices using analog and digital
computers. Ls(5OO) Se(1943) DASMc RMCGBa
University of California, Department of Mathematics, Numerical Analysis Research, Los Angeles
24, Calif. / Grani te 3-0971 and Bradshaw 2-61
61 / *C
Research and teaching in use of digital computers for scientific computation. Operates
SWAC on loan from the Office of Nav& ~ruoch.
Also maintain and operate machines, library
and other equipment owned up to 1954 by the
now inactive National Bureau of Standards Dr
stitute for Numerical Analysis. Ss(32) Se
(1954-date of transfer from National Bureau
of Standards) Dc RPCa
Univ. of California, Berkeley, Calif. / *C
CALDIC, California Digital Computer. Ss(lO)
Se(947) DAc
RPa
University of Cambridge, University Mathematical
Laboratory, Free School Lane, Cambridge, Engl.cnd
Built Edsac. Computing service (digital) for
University. ?s' Me Dc RCPa
University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.
Built electronic digital computer Ordvac for
Ballistic Research Laboratory, Aberdeen. Has
·finished computer Illiac on same design, but
with faster input-output using a phot.c:>eEctric
reader. Dc
RCPa
University of Manchester, Mathematical Laboratory,
Manchester, England /
*C
Has automatic electronic digital computer
built by Ferranti Electric, Ltd. This laboratory developed much of the design. Ss(8)
Se (1947) Dc
RPa
University of Michigan, Willm'l Run Laboratories,
Willow Run Airport, Ypsilanti, Mich. / Ypsilanti 5110 /
*C _
Digital and analog computers, including electronic and electromagnetic computers and simulators; both special and general p u rpos e.
Including MIDAC, IBM equipment, desk calculators, data processing systems. Computing
services, including analysis and computation
using all types of computers. Instruction
in components of and the use, of electronic
computers of all types, e.g. programming,
coding, numerical methods, etc. Ls(600) Se
(1946)DAc
RCPa
Uni versi ty of Pittsburgh-SEE Mellon Institute
University of Sydney, Dept. of Electrical Engrg.,
Section of Mathematical Instruments, Sydney, New
South Wales, Australia
Analog computers.
Ac
Ra
Universi ty of Toronto, Computation Centre, Toronto, Canada / Walnut 3-1327 /
*C
Digi tal, electronic computers. Now operating:
a Ferranti Electric automatic computer; p~h.
card machines. Computing service (d~gital)

using the Ferranti computer. Ss(15) Se(1947)
RCPa
University of Wisconsin, Numerical Analysis Laboratory, B-9 Bascom Hall, Madison 6, Wisconsin
/ Alpine 5-3311, X2137 /
*C
Computing service: analog, digital; Phi 1brick computer, card programmed calculator,
IBM 650, punch card machines. Ss(12)
Se
DAle
RCPa
Vari-Ohm Corp.-Subsidiary of Norden-Ketay Corp.,
which see.
Vaucanson, 11 rue de Surmelin, Paris 20e, France
Calculating machines. Dc
RMSa
Vectron, Inc., 400 Main St., Waltham 54, Mass.
/ Waltham 5-8700
Special computers for accounting applicatirns,
military applications, etc. Precision po' tentiometers, precision gear assemblies, etc.
Ms(200) Se(1949)
DIe RMSa
Victor Adding Machine Co., 3900 No. Rockwell St.,
Chicago 18, Ill. /
*C
Adding machines, etc. Ls(1600) Le(1918)
Dc
RMSa
VIS Irecord, Inc., 54 Railroad Ave., Copiague,L.I.,
N.Y. / Amityville 4-4900 /
*C
Filing systems for all types of common language tapes in computers. Business control
on edge-punched cards in conj unction wi t h '
mechanical and electronic business machines.
Ms(300)
Ic
RMSa
The Walkirt Co.,· 145 West Hazel St., Inglewood,
3, Calif. / Oregon 8-2873, Oregon 1-0212 / *C
Unitized circuit packages, plug-in un its,
including binary scalers, linear te rn ary
scalers; other digital computing activities.
Ss(20)
Se(1948)
Dc
RMSa
Wang Laboratories, 37 Hurley St., Cambridge 39,
Mass., / Trowbridge 6-1925
Magnetic delay-line memory units. Digital
signal generators. Multiple scalers. Static magnetic memory systems and other dev~.
Wedilog computers, shaft digitizing coders.
Ss(8) Se(1951) Dc RCMSa
Waters Manufacturing, Inc., 4 Gordon St., l\hltham,
Mass. / Waltham 5-9020 /
*C
Potentiometers for servomechanisms, computers, and other uses. Ms (80) Se (195l) Ie RMa
The George Washington Univ., Logistics,Re~earch
Project, 707 22nd St., Washington 7, D. C. /
Sterling 3-4539 / *C
ONR relay computer with magnetic drum memory.
Data-handling machines. ONR electronic digital computer with magnetic drum memory. Computing service (digital) using these mac hines. Ms(50) Se(1950) Dc
RCPa
Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory, 612 West
116 St., New York, N.Y. / Monument 6-9600/ *C
The pure science department of International Business Machines Corp. Simultaneous linear equation solver. Astronomical p,late"
measuring machine. IBM punch card machines.
Research and instruction. Maker of N a val
Ordnance Research Calculator (NORC). Ms(lil]
Se (1945) DAc
RCPa
Wayne University Computation Laboratory, Ca~Ave.
Detroi t 1, Mich. / Temple 1-1450 /
*C
53OO-word magnetic drum computer buH t 0 f
Burroughs pulse control equipment. Digital
differential analyz~r and elec'tronic analog
equipment. Computing service: analog, digital. Instructi~n and trai~ing~ 5s(30) __
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35)

Components

of

Automatic
List

of

Computing

Machinery-

'fYtpe's

(Edition 2, cumulative, information as of November '3, 1955)

The purpose of this list is to report t y pes
of components of automatic machinery for co~
puting or data processing. We shall be grateful for any cormnents, corrections, and proposed
addi tions or deletions, which any reader may
send us.

3.

Calculating and controlling devices:
Mechanical computing elements: latches,
gears, levers, ratchets, "progr a m
bars", cams, etc.
Relay and stepping switch circuits
Electronic tube circuits
Rectifier circuits, using d i 0 des
electronic tube, germanium,selenium,
silicon
Transistor circuits
Auxiliary circuit elements: ampl~ers,
pulse transformers, voltage regulators, etc.
•
Analog computing elements: resolvers,
synch~os, integrators, adders, etc.
Automatic process controllers as such,
pneumatic, electronic, hydraulic,etc.

4.

Input devices:
Buttons
Switches
Paper tape readers: mechanical, elec~
trical, photoelectric
Punch card readers: mechanical, electrical, photoelectric
Magnetic tape readers
Automatic curve followers: photoelectric
Scanners: electric, photoelectric
Sensing instruments of all kinds
- The category "sensing instruments"
verges into the science of instrumentation, where humidity, tem perature, pressure, volume, flow,
liquid ievel, etc., and many other
physical variables can be measured
and reported to a machine in machine language.

5.

Output devices:
Visual displays, such as lights ~ dials,
oscilloscope screen, etc.
Electric typewriter, or other electrically operated office machine
Line-at-a-time printer
Matrix printer, that forms eacb character by a pattern of dots
Automatic plotter, whic~ -will t ra c e
or plot a curve accotding to information delivered by the machine
Facsimile printer
Photographic recording
Paper tape punch
Magnetic tape recorder
Punch card punch

LIST
1.

2.

Storage mediums, for both internal and
external storage:
Punch cards
Punched paper tape
Magnetic tape
Magnetic wire
Metal plates
Plugboards, i.e., panels of patch cords
-- All'these physical forms express
machine language; when-inserte d
into a machine" they give the machine information and instruction;
when left in a filing cab i net,
they hold information and instructions in reserve for later use.
Sometimes it is the whole are a
or volume of the storage mediu m'
which is used, as in the ordinary
punched card. Sometimes i t i s
only the edge which is used, as
in edge-punched cards or e d g eslotted metal plates.
Storage mediums, internal only:
Magnetic drums
Magnetic tape units
Magnetic cores, arranged ei ther 0 n ediroons ionally as in a magnetic shift
reg1 ster or in two or three dime ns ions as a magnetic core mat r i x
memory; they may be made of special
iron alloys, iron oxide c era mic s
called ferrites, etc.
Electrostatic storage tubes, in particular cathode ray storage tubes
Delay lines, of mercury, quartz,nickelf etc.
Relays, in relay registers, and stepping switches ,
Electronic tubes, in reg i s t e r s of
flip-flops, counting rings, etc.
Swi tches: toggle swi tches and d i a 1
switches
Buttons and keyboards
Rotation shafts
Voltages

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ROSTER,

AUTOMATIC COMPUTING SERVICES -

(Cumulative, information as of November 3, 1955)

The purpose of this Roster is to report organi~ations (all that are known to us) offering
automatic computing services and having at
least one automatic computer, either analogor
digital. Each Roster entry contains: nameof
the organi~ation, its address / analog or di~
tal computation provided / notes on equipment
/ any restrictions as to clients.
We shall be grateful for any additions or
corrections that any reader is able to sendus.
Some of the abbreviations are as follows:
A

analog

anal
CPC

analy~er

D

diff
govtO
unres

erly Raytheon) / D /- automatic electronic
digital computer, etc. / unres
Dian La~oratories, Inc., 611 Broadway, New Y~k,
N,Y. / A / - / unres
Electro-Data Corporation, 717 North Lake Ave.,
Pasadena 6, Calif. / D / Datatron, 3Q-20l,
etc. / unres
Electronic Associates, Inc., Princeton Computation Center, Princeton, N. J. / A / Electronic Associates' analog computer / unres
Engineering Research Associates. Division of
Remington Rand. 555 23rd, St. South. Arling-.
ton 2. Va. / D / ERA 1103 I unres
Ferranti Limited, Computer Centre. 21 Portland
Pl., London W1. England / D / Fe~ranti /
unres
Financial Publishing Co., Mathematical Tables
Div., 82 Brookline Ave., Boston 15, Mass. /
D / CPC's, punch card / unres
The Franklin Inst. Laboratories for Research
and Development, 20 St. and Benj. Franklin
Pkwy, Philadelphia 3, Pa. / A / A.C. network analy~er / unres
General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y. / A /
network anal AC and DC. diff anal l unres
The George WashingtonUniversity, Logistics Research Project, 707 22nd St/, Washington,
D.C. / D / ONR automatic relay computer /
unres
Georgia Institute of Technology, Rich Data Processing Center. Atlanta. Ga. / D / ERA 1101
computer and other machines / unres
Harvard Computation Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge 38. Mass. / D / Harvard
IBM Mark I. Harvard Mark IV / unres
International Business Machines Corp., 590
Madison Ave., New York. N.Y. / D / IBM 701.
702. 650. 604 CPC, punch card. etc. / unres
Machine Statistics Co., 27 Thames St., New Yolk
6, N.Y. / D / IBM 604, punch card,/ unres
Mass. Inst. of Technology. Office of Statistical Services, Cambridge 39, Mass. / D / IBM
604. CPC, punch card / unres
Moore School of Electrical Engineering, Univ.
of Pennsylvania, 200 South 33 St •• Phila ••
4,' Pa. / A. D / MSAC, diff anal. CPC, punch
card / unres
National Bureau of Standards, Applied Mathematics Laboratory, Washington. D.C. / D / Seac,
Dyseac. punch card / govtO
National Bureau of Standards, Ins ti tute for
Numerical Analysis, See Univ. of California
, at Los Angeles, Dept. of Mathematics, NumerI

IBM card programmed calculator
digital
differential
available to government agencies
contractors only
unres tric ted
ROSTER

Alpha Computing, Inc., 436 s. Sepulveda Blvd.,
Los Angeles 49, Calif. / - / "medium and
large computers" / unres
Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Inst.
of Tech., 10 West 35 St., Chicago 16, Ill.
/ A, D / Goodyear Electronic Differential
Analy~ers, Two Channel Electronic Function
Generator, CPC / unres
Askania Regulator Co., 240 East Ontario St.,
Chicago 11, Ill. / A / Philbrick / unres
Battelle Memorial Inst., 505 King Ave., Columbus 1, Ohio / A, D / diff anal, CPC, punch card l unres
Burroughs Corporation, Electronic Instrument
·Div., 1209 Vine St., Philadelphia, Pa. /D /
digital computer UDEC II / unres
Burroughs ~orporation Research Center, Paoli,
Pa. / D / Burroughs Laboratory Computer /
unres
Cambridge University, University Mathematical
Laboratory, Free School Lane, Cambridge,
England / D / Edsac / unres
Cornell Computing Center, Rand Hall, Cornell
University, Ithaca, N. Y. / D / CPC, punch
card / unres
Datamatic Corp., Computing Services Section,
Needham St., Newton Highlands, Mass. (form-'

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AUTO~fATI C

COMPUTING SERVICES

ical Analysis Research
National Cash Register Company, Electronics owision, (formerly Computer Research Corp.),
3348 West El Segundo Boulevard, Hawthorne,
Calif. / D / Cadac 102A, etc. I unres
Northrop Aircraft, Inc., Director of Computing,
Hawthorne, Calif. I A, D I CPC's, Maddida,
Binac, punch card, etc. / unres
G A Philbrick Researches, Inc., 230 Congress
St., Boston 10, Mass. / A / Philbrick I~
Pi-Squared Engineering Co., Inc., 230 Gbngress
St., Boston 10, Mass. I A / Philbrick 7~
Purdue Univ., Dept. of Mathematics, Lafayette,
Ind. / D I CPC, punch card I unres
Raytheon Mfg. Co., Computing Services Section
/ See Datamatic Corp., Computing Services
Section
J B Rea Co., Inc., 1723 Cloverfield Blvd.,Sanm
Monica, Calif. I A, D, simulation / Electronic Associates analog computer, Beckman EASE
analog computer, CPC / unres
Reeves Instrument Co., 215 East 91 St., New
York, N.Y. I A I Reac I unres
Remington Rand, Inc., 315 4th Ave., New York,
N.Y. and 2601 Wil~hire Blvd., Los Angeles,
Calif. / D / Univac, punch card, etc. /unres
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Computer Laboratory, Troy, N.Y. / A I Reeves Electronic
Analog Computer, precision magnetic tape
recorders for analog computing applications
/ unres
Rome Air Development Center, Computer FacDdties
Section, Griffiss Air Force Base, Rome,N.Y.
/ A, 0 I Elecom 120, Bendix Digital Differential Analyzer D 12, Reeves Electronic
Analog Computer, Benson-Lehner data reduction equipment, etc. / govtO
Scientific Computing Service, Ltd., 23 Bedford
Sq., London W.C. 1, England I D I - I unres
Swedish Board for Computing Machines, Drottni~
atan 95A, Stockholm, Sweden I D / Bark, ~k
/ unres
T~lecomputing Corp., 133 East Santa Anita Ave.,
Burbank, Calif. / A, D I IBM punch card, coch
automatic graph readers, digital plotters I
unres
_
U S Air Force, Computation Research Section,
Wright Air Development Center, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio / A, 0 /
CPC's, Reac's, punch card I govtO
U S Army, Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen, Md. / D / Ordvac, Edvac, Eniac, Bell
Model V, CPC, punch card / govtO
U S Navy, Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Va.
I D I Norc, Harvard Mark II, Harvard Mark
III, punch card / govtO
University mCalifornia, Dept. of Mathematics,
Numerical Analysis Research, 405 Hilgardke.,
Los Angeles 24, Calif. / (formerly National
Bureau of Standards Inst. of Numerical Analysis) / D / Swact etc. / unres
University of Michigan, Willow Run Research Center, Ypsilanti, Mich. / D / Midac, Midsac,
etc. / unres

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Univ. of Toronto, Computation Centre, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada I 0 I Ferut (Ferranti Univ.
of Toronto computer) I unres
Univ. of Wisconsin, 306 North Hall, Madison 6,
Wisc. I A: D / Philbrick, CPC, punch card I
unres
Wayne University, Computation Laboratory, Detroi t 1, 'Mich. / A, D diff anal, Burroughs
Unitized Digital Electronic Computer, etc.
I unres
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Industry Engineer_- ing Dept. East Pittsburgh, Pa. I A, D / An acom network anal AC and ~C, punch card lunres

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DIGITAL COMPUTERS
(continued

from

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9)

It is reported that a machine is be in g
constructed at Warsaw; but no Poles ~re present at Darmstadt and details were not secured.
Some brief observations on other reports
at the Conference may also be in order.
In
Spain only a differential analyzer is b e in g
planned for the immediate future. In all ollier
countries represented, and also in Norway, di~
ital computers either exist or are being planned. In Germany, in particular, many machines
are under development. Nevertheless, the s e
are generally quite modest by American and Bri~
ish standards. The BESK, at Stockholm, rema~
preeminent among existing machines of West European (Continental) constr~ction. Among maChines reported on, special mention should be
made of one being constructed at G8ttinge~ using magnetic cores and micro-programming. Of
interest in another direction is the mactii ne
at Vienna said to have been built at a cost on
the order of $100. Between these two extremes
is a machine being built commercially by a Bri~
ish firm but said to have been developed b y
van der Poel and others of- the Dutch PTT Gbsts,
telephones, and telegraphs).
The number of European countries represett~
ed at the Conference and the number of people
in attendance, both suggest that rapid develo~
ments are certain to take place in the ne a r
future.
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AUTOMATIC

COMPUTING

MACHINERy ..... LIST

(Edition 2, cumulative, informatio~ as of November

The purpose of this list is to report types of
machinery that may well be considered automatic
comppting machinery, that is, automatic machinery
for handling information or data, reason ably.
We shall be grateful for any comments, corrections, and proposed additions or del e t ion -s
which any reader may be able to send us.
Accounting-bookkeeping machines, which take in
numbers through a keyboard, and print the m
on a ledger sheet, but are controlled by ''program bars", which, according to the colu m n
in which the number belongs, cause the number
to enter positively or negatively in anyone
of several totaling counters, which can be
optionally printed or cleared.
Addressing machines, programmable, which take
in names and addresses, either on metal plates
or punch cards, and print the names and a ddresses on envelopes, wrappers, etc., and
which may be controlled for selection and in
other ways, by notches, punched hole s, and
other signals, on the plates or cards.
Air traffic control equipment (including ground
control app~oach equipment), which takes in
information about the location of aircraf t
in flight and gives out information or co ntrol signals'for the guidance of the flight
of the aircraft. .
Analog computers, which take in numerical information in the form of measure men t s of
physical variables, perform arithmetica 1
operations r are controlled by a program, and
give out numerical answers.
Analog-to-digi tal converters, which t a k e i n
analog measurements and give out, dig ita 1
numbers.
Astronomical telescope aiming equipment, which
adj us ts the direc tion of a telescope ina n'
observatory so that it remains pointed at
the spot in 'the heavens which an astronomer
intends to study.
Automobile traffic light controllers, that take
in indications of the presence of motor cars
from the operation of treadles in the pavement or in other ways, and give out signals,
according to a program of response t o t h e
volume and density of traffic.
Card-to-tape converters, which will ta k e in
informatibn on punched cards, and put out
corresponding' or edited information on punched
paper tape or on magnetic tape.
Control systems for handling connected or flowing materials, ,which will take in indications
of flow, temperature, pressure, vol u me,
liquid level, etc., and give 'out the settings
of valves, rollers, tension arms, etc., depending on the program of control.

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Control systems for handling separate materials,
which will roove heavy blocks, long rod s, or
other pieces of material to or from stations
and in or out of machines, while takin gin
indications furnished by the 10 cat ion s of
previous pieces of materials, the availabil i ty
of the machines, etc., all depending 0 n the
program of control.
Data sampling systems, which will take i n a
continuous vol-tage or other physical variables
and give out samples, perhaps once a second
or perhaps a thousand times a second; t his
machine may be combined with an analog-t 0digital converter, so that the report on, the
sample is digital not analog.
Digi tal computers, which take in n u mer i cal,
alphabetic, or 'other information in the for m
of characters or patterns of yes-noes, etc.,
perform arithmetical and logical operations,
are controlled by a program, and put out information in any form.
Digi tal-to-analog converters, which t a k e i n
digital numbers and give out analog measurements.
Facsimile copying equi'pment, which s can s a
document or picture with a phototube line by
line and reproduces it by making little dots
with a moving stylus or with an elec t r i c
current through electrosensitive paper.
File-searchIng machines, which will take inan
abstract in code, and search for and find the
reference or references alluded to.
Fire control equipment, that takes in indications of targets from optical or radar per. ception and puts out directions of beari n g
and elevation for aiming and time of firing
for guns, accordinp to a program that c a 1culates rIlQtion of target, motion of the firing
vehicle j .properties of, the a~r, etc.
Flight simulators, which 'will take in simulated
condi tions of flight in airplanes, and th e
actions of airplane crew members, and sho loY
the necessary results, all for pur pos e s of
t'raining airplane crews.
'
Game-playing machines, in which the mach i n e
will playa game with a human being, either
a simple game such as ti t-tat-toe or Dim
(which have been built into special machines)
or a more complicated game such as checkers,
chess, or billiards (which have been progranuned on large automatic digital computers).
Inventory machines, which will store as man y
as ten thousand totals i.n an equal numb e r
of registers, and will add into, subt rae t
from, clear, and report the contents of any
called-for register (these machines app 1 y
to stock control, to railroad and air lin e
reservations, etc.).
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AUfOMATIC COMPUT'ING MACHINERY
~~continued

from

Machine tool control equipment, which takes in
a program of instructions equivalent t 0 a
"blueprint, or a small s h:e model, or the pattern of operations of an expert machin is t ,
and controls a machine tool so that a,p iec e
of material is shaped exactly in accordanc e
wi th the program.
Navigating and piloting systems, which w i l l
take in star positions, time, radio b e a m
signals, motion of the air, etc., and deliver
steering directions.
Network analyzers, which take in analog iniormation about the resistances, inductances,
and capacitances of an electric powerplant's
network of electrical lines and loads, and
enable the behavior of the system to be calculated, and the system to be appropriately
designed and rendered safe and economical.
Printing devices of high speed, which will take
in punched cards or D.lagnetic. tape and put out
printed information at rates from 600w 2000
characters per second.
Punch card machines, which will sort, classify,
list, total, copy, print, and do many other
kinds of office work.
Railway signaling equipment, which for example
enables a large' railroad terminal to schedule
trains in and out every 20 seconds' d uri n g
rush hours with no accidents and al mo s t no
delays.
Reading and recognizing machines, which scan a
printed digit or letter, observe a patter n
of spots, route the pattern through classifying circuits, recognize the digit or letter,
and activate output devices accordingly.
Sale recorders, also called point-of-sale r ecorders, which take in the amount, the type,
and other information about sales of goods,
and produce records in machine language,Whlch
can later be automatically analyzed and summarized by control punch card or co mput i n g
equipment.
Spectroscopic analyzers, which will vaporize a
small sample of material, analyze its spectrum, and report the preserice and tpe relative
quanti ties of chemical elements and compo'unds
in it.
. Strategy machines, which enable military officers in training to play war games and t 'es t
strategies, in which electronic de vic e s
automatically apply attrition rates t 0 the
fighting forces being used in the game, growth
rates to the industrial potential of the two
sides, etc.
Tape-to-card converters, which will t a k e in
information on punched paper tape or on magnetic tape, and put out correspondin g or
edi ted information on punched cards-.
Telemetering transmitting and receiving devices,
. which enable a weather balloon or a gui ded
missile to transmit information detec te d by
instruments wi thin it as it moves; the information is recorded usually on magnetic tape
in such fashio'n that it can later be used for
computing purposes.

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32)

Telephone equipment i'ncluding switching, which
enables a subscriber to dial another s ubscriber and get connected automatically.
Telephone message accounting systems, w hi c h
record local and long dis tance tel e phone
call$, assign them to the proper subscriber's
account, and compute and print the telephone
bills.
Test-scoring machines, which will take ina
test paper· completed with a pencil.making
electrically conductive marks, and will give
out the score.
Toll recording equipment, which will record,
check, and surmnarize tolls for b rid g e s ,
highways and turnpikes.
Training simulators, which will take in simulated conditions affecting .the training 0 f
one or more persons in a job, and 'their responses under these simulated conditions,and
show the results, all for the pur p os e 0 f
teaching them; SEE also flight simulators.
Typing machines, progrtlrmnable, which will store
paragraphs and other information,andcombi~e
them according to instructions into correspondence, form letters, orders, etc., stopping and waiting for manual "fill-ins" if so
instructed.
Vending machines, which will take in vari 0 us
coins and designations of choices, and then
give out appropriate change, coffee, s of.t
drinks, sandwiches, candy, stockings, and a
host of other articles, or else allow somebody to playa game for a certain number of
plays, etc.-

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SPECIAL ISSUES' OF
~~COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION"
TIle issue of "Computers and Automation"
in June, 1955, was a special issue: "The Computer Directory, 1955", 164 pages, containing:
Part I, Who's Who in the Computer Field; Part
2, Roster of Organizations in the Computer Field;
and Part 3, llIe Computer Field: Products and
Services for Sale. It is eXpected that the next
Computer Directory issue will be June, 1956.
The next special issue will be Janu ary,
1956. It will be mainly devoted to use f .u 1
information for people who have newly entered
the computer field: an introduction to computers (and to "Computers and Automation") ,
and reprints and revisions of some of the more
introductory articles and papers that "ComIllters and Automation" has published.

ROSTER OF

ORGANIZA~IONS
from page 28)

(continued

Se (1950)
DAc
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Jervis B. Webb Co., 8951 Alpine Ave., Detroit 4.
Mich. / Webster 3-8010 /
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,
Conveyor engineering and manufacturing. ServOlOOchanisms, automatic control machin e ry,
automatic materials handling machinery. Ls
(600) Le(1919)
SCMc
RMSa
Weems Sustem of Navigation, 227 Prince George St.,
Annapolis, Md.
Automatic navigation syste~. Me Ic RCPM
Sa
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Analytical Depa r tment, East Pittsburgh, Pa.~¥xpress 1-28)0/ ~C
Electronic and passive element analog c~t­
ers; analog-to-digital conversion equipment;
automatic control devices. DC and AC calculating boards (network analyzers); A NA CO M
computer. Installing IBM Type 704 EDPM. ~
namic analyses of physical systems, ~luding
transient phenomena in mechanical and electrical systems; servomechanisms, and regulating systems; nuclear reactor calculations;
field mapping; operations research. Computing service; digital and analog. Ls(corporation, 10OpOO; dept., 50) Se(dept., 1952)
DASc
RMSCPa
Wharf Engineering Labs., Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, England / Fenny Compton 30 /
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Magnetic drums, recording heads, transformers. Ss (15) Se (1949) Ic
RMSa
Wiancko Engineering Co., 255 No. Halstead Avenue,
Pasadena, Calif.
Digital ballistics analyzer computer, computer components, etc. ?s ?e DAIc
RMSa
Zator Co., 79 Milk St., Boston 9, Mass. / Lllerty
2-4624 /
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Digital equipment and systems for codi?g,fUing, and finding information JZato coiling ~
tems). High-speed selectors for n 0 ~c he d
cards. Methods for use of digital computing
machines to recover information. Ss SeG947)
Ic
RCSa
Zeuthen & Aagaard Ltd., 6 Esplanaden, Copenhagen,
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Denmark / Central 3795 /
Portable adding machine (Contex); dictating
machine (Rex-Recorder) with magnetic recording on plastic disc using impregnated particles and permitting more than 10,000 reus~
duplicating machines, etc. Ls Le Ic RMSa
Konrad Zuse, Kreis HUnfeld No. 69, Neukirche n,
Germany
Electronic digital computers. Has madeZuse
Model IV and V computers. Ss(9O) Se(l949)
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outstan'ding position in the precision
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Opening now available for an engineer able to assume responsibility
for the development of complete
systems for fire control and guidance, or major portions of such systems. Work will include research and
development in the field of complex
analog or digital computers.
A degree in' electrical or mechanical
engineering is required or the equivalent in experience.

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INDEX
This index covers information published in the twelve issues of COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION, vol. 3, no.
10, Dec. 1954, to vol. 4, no. 11, Nov. 1955.
In order not to delay the current issue, Dec. 1955, it has
not been included in the index. The last part of each entry in the index gives: volume / number (month of
issue), page number.
A:

ABSTRACTS: Association for Computing Machmery
Meeting, Ann Arbor, Mich., June 1954, 4/4 (April) , 1 5 '
.
Association for Computing Machinery Me e tin g ,
Philadelphia, Sept. 1955, 4/11 (Nov.), 17
Eastern Joint Computer Conference, Boston, Nov.
1955,4/11 (Nov.), 12
Eastern Joint Computer Conference, Philadelphia,
Dec. 1954, 4/1 (Jan.), 15
Western Computer Conference, Los Angeles, March
1955, 4/4 (April), 38
Administrative devisions, computers to make, 4/3
(March), 28
"The Advance of Automation" by F. Palmer Web e r
4/11 (Nov.), 31
Analog computer, for solving simul taneous equations,
4/3 (March), 12
"Analog Computers and Their Application to He a t
Transfer and Fluid Flow - Part 2", by J 0 h n
E. Nolan, 3/10 (Dec. 1954),24
"Analog Computers and Their Application to He a t
Transfer and Fluid Flow - Part 3", B i bliography, by John E. Nolan, 4/1 (Jan.), 31
Analog computers, input functions, 4/1 (Jan.), 27
"Animal and Machine Brains" (in The Editor's Notes)
4/10 (Oct.), 4
Answering of inquiries, automatic, 4/11 (Nov.) 6
"The Application of Automatic Comp,uting Equipment
to Savings Bank Operations" by R. Hunt Brown,
4/7 (July), 18
Application of digital computers to business operations, problems in, 4/3 (March), 16
"Approaching Automation in a Casualty Insura n c e
Company" by Carol O. Orkild, 4/2 (Feb.), 19
Arents, Chester A., "Computer Sess ion at the Conference on Industrial Hydraulics, Octob e r,
1955" (in Fo~um), 4/9 (Sept.), 30
Asimov, Isaac, "Franchise", 4/9 (Sept.), 17
Asimov, Isaac, "Question", 4/3 (March), 6
"Association for Computing Machinery Meeting, Ann
Arbor, Mich., June 1954 -- Ti tIes of P a pe r s
and Abs trac ts", 4/4 (April), 15
Association for Computing Machinery Meeting, Philadelphia, Sept. 1955, notice, 4/3 (March),30
Association for Computing Machinery Meeting, Philadelphia, Sept. 1955, notice, 4/7 (July), 9
"Association for Computing Machinery Me e tin g ,
Philadelph'ia, September 1955 -- Titles 0 f
Papers and Abstracts", 4/11 (Nov.), 17
Astrono~, use of computers in, 4/11 (Nov.), 10
Atkinson, Cyril P., "A Mechanical Analog Computer
for Solving Linear Simultaneous Algebr a i c
Equations", 4/3 (March), 12
"Automatic Answering of Inquiries" by L.E. Griffith, 4/11 (Nov.), 6
"Automatic Coding for Digital Computers" by Dr. G.
M. Hopper, 479 (Sept.), 21
"Automatic Computers -- Estimated Commercial Population", 4/3 (March), 30
Automatic computers, for business, publications
on, 4/9 (Sept.), 13
Automatic computers in savings banks, 4/7 (July),
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Automatic computers, justifying the use of, 4 /8
(Aug.), 17
Automatic Computers, Roster of, (cumulative), 4/2
(Feb.), 23
,
Automatic Computing Services, Roster, (t;umulative),
4/1 (Jan.), 20; 4/6 (Jun~), 123
"Automatic Data Processing Forum, New York" by W.
K. Tarrant, 4/10 (Oct.), 38
"Automatic Literature Searching", by U. S. Dept.
of Commerce, 4/1 (Jan.), 26
"Automatic Programmed Component Assembly Sys te m"
by Neil Macdonald, 4/2 (Feb.), 34
"Automatic Programming" (in The Editor's Notes) ,
4/9 (Sept.), 4
"Automatic Programming: The A-2 Compiler System-Part 1" by Programming Research Section, Remington Rand, 4/9 (Sept.), 25
'
"Automatic Programming: The A-2 Compiler SystemPart 2" by Programming Research Section, Remington Rand, 4/10 (Oct.), 15
"Automatic Programming of Production Machi n ery "
by Harmon G. Shively, 4/7 (July), 29
Automation, advance of, 4/11 (Nov.), 31
Automation, economic changes from, 4/5 (May), 4
Automation, human relations in, 3/10 (Dec. 1954),

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Automation in an insurance company, 4/2 (FebJ,19
"The Automation of Bank Check Processing" by R.
Hunt Brown, 4/8 (August), 6
"Automation Puts Industry on Eve of Fantas t i c
Robot Era - Its Effect on Workers Spurs Unions'
Drive for Annual Wage" by A. H. Raskin, 4/5
(May), 27
"Automation - A Report to the UAW-CIO Economi c
and Collective Bargaining Conference",
by
UAW-CIO, 4/5 (May), 14
B: Bank checks, automatic processing of, 4/8
(August), 6,
Banks, use of automatic computing equipment in,
4/7 (July), 18
Bibliography, for analog computers, 4/1 (Jan.),31
'!A Big Inventory Problem and the IBM 702" by Neil
Macdonald, 4/9 (Sept.), 6
"Binary Arithmetic" by J. B. McCall, 4/1 (Jan.) ,11
Binary arithmetic, in testing compute r s, 4/8
(August), 33
"The Book Reviewer" by Rose J. Orente, 4/7 (July),
22
"Books and Other Publications", 4/1 (Jan.), 40;
4/2 (Feb.), 28; 4/3 (March), 25; 4/4 (ApriD,
42; 4/5 (May), 33; 4/7 (July>, 26; 4/8 (AugJ,
28; 4/9 (Sept.), 36
Booth, Andrew D., "Recognhdng Spoken Sounds ,by
Means of a Computer", 4/2 (Feb.), 9
Booth, Andrew D., "Some Curiosities of Binary
Arithmetic Useful in Testing Binary Computers", 4/8, (August), 33
"The Brain and Learned Behavior" by Dr. Harry F.
Harlow, 4/10 (Oct.), 6
Brains, animal and machine, 4/10 (Oct.), 4
Breen, John M., ,"Problems Involved in the Application of Electronic Digital Computers t 0
Business Operations", 4/3 (March), 16 ,
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Breen, John M., ''Who Are Manning the New Compu ters?", 4/10 (Oct.), 26
Brown, R. Hunt, "The Application of Auto mat i c
Computing Equipment to Savings Bank Operations",
4/1;. (July), 16
Brown, R. Hunt, "The Automation of Bank Check Processing", 4/6 (August), 6
Business operations, use of digital computers in,
4/a (March), 16
Business, publications on computers for, 4/9 (SeptJ,
13
C: Cancer cells, electronic detection of, 4/3
(March), 34
"The Capacity of Computers to 'Think' It, by Russell
Chauvenet, 4/1 (Jan.), 21
Carr, John W., III, "Problems for Students of Computers", 4/2 (Feb.), 6
Carr, John W., "Uni vers i ty of Michigan Sum mer
Session Notes on Computers and Data Processors",
4/11 (Nov.), 9
Chambers, Francis T., "Computer 'Thinking'lt, 4/3
(March),9
Chapin, Ned, "Justifying the Use of an Automatic
Computer", 4/6 (August), 17
Chapin, Ned, "Publications for Business on Au t 0matic Computers: A Basic Listing", 4/9 (Sept.),
13
"Charting on Automatic Data Processing Systems" by
Barry Eisenpress, James L. McPherson, and Julius Shiskin, 4/8 (August), 21
Chauvenet, Russell. ''The Capacity of Computers to
'Think"~ 4/1 (Jan.), 21
CIO:UAW report on automation, 4/5 (May), 14
Circuit design of incomplete selection circuits,
3/10 (Dec" 1954), 36
Coding, automatic, 4/9 (Sept.), 21
"Collection of Material on Exploitation of Aut 0matic Digital Computers" by George E. Forsythe,
4/7 (July), 31
Component assembly system. automatic, 4/2 (Feb.),34
"Components of Automatic Computing Machinery -Ust of Types" (cumulative), 4/3 (March), 22
The Computer Directory, 1955, 4/6 (June), whole
issue
"The Computer Field: Products and Serv ice s for
Sale", (cumulative), 4/6 (June), 116
Computer programs, 4/2 (Feb.), 27
"Computer Session at the Conference on Industrial
Hydraulics, October, 1955", by Chester A. Arents, 4/9 (Sept.), .30
"Computer 'Thinking''', by Francis T. Chambers,
4/3 (March), 9
"Computers and Computation, Abroad and Here", by
Alston S. Householder, 4/2 (Feb.), 32
Computers and data processors, Univ. of Michigan
Summer Session, notes on, 4/11 (Nov.), 9
"Computers and Weather Prediction" by Bruce Gi 1christ, 4/3 (March), 8
Computers in Society (in The Editor', Notes), 4/7
(July), 4
Computers, problems for students of, 4/2 (Feb.), 6
"Computers to Make Administrative Decisions?" by
Hans Schroeder, 4/3 (March), 28
Computing services, Roster, 4/1 (Jan.), 20
Conference -- see also: Association for Computing
Machinery Meetings
Easter. Joint Computer Conference
Electronic Computer Conference, Darmstadt, Germany
Industrial Electronics Conference, Detroit
National Simulation Conference
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Proposed Symposium on Numerical Analysis
Univ. of Wisconsin Conference
Western Computer Conference
Conference on High-Speed Computers, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge, La., Feb. 15-17,1956,
4/11 (Nov.), 4
Conference on Industrial Hydraulics, 4/9 (Sept.), 30
"Conference on Instrumentation for Data Handl ing,
Atlanta, November, 1955", by D. L. Finn (j n
Forum>, 4/9 (Sept.), 30
"Conference on 'The Practical Utilization of Knowledge', Cleveland, January 1956" by Dean Jesse
H. Shera, (in Forum>, 4/9 (Sept.), 30
"Cooperative Graduate SUDlDer Session in Statistics",
by H. A. Meyer, 4/3 (March)~ 32
CORRECTIONS: of "The Automation of Bank Check Processing" -- SEE 4/9 (Sept.), 4 .
''Binary Addition Table" -- SEE 4/3 (March), 32
"Charting on Automatic Data P~ocessing Systems"
-- SEE 4/10 (Oct.), 35; 4/11 (Nov.) 39
"Justifying the Use of an Automatic Com pute r"
-- SEE 4/10 (Oct.), 35 .
"Linear PrograDDlling and Computers" by Chandl er
Davis -- SEE 4/9 (Sept.), 4
May issue masthead -- SEE 4/7 (July), 32
Cow, The Tale of a, by M. E. Salveson,4I6 (AugusV,
20
0: Danch, 'Bill, "Quadrupled Production", 3/10 (Dec.
1954),4; "A Boon to Government", 4/1 (Jan.),
44; "Decimal Places", 4/1 (Jan.), 38; "Astronomical Numbers", 4/2 (Feb.), 40; "He Mad e
His Mark", 4/3 (March), 36; "To Program 0 r
Not to Program", 4/4 (April), 50; "Cost Alloca,tion", 4/5 (May), 44; "Computer Repair",
4/6 (June), 154; "L!ke Rabbi ts", 4/7 (July) ,
36; "Square Root to Eight Decimals", 4/9 (SeptJ,
40; "Computer Applications", 4/10 (Oct.), 40;
"Supervision of Human Operators", 4/11 (Nov.),
36
Data processors: ''Reliability in Electronic Dat a
Processors", 4/5 (May), 6
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Davis, Chandler, "Linear Programing and Computers: Part 1",4/7 (July), 10
Davis, Chandler, "Linear Progranming and Computers: Part 2", 4/6 (August), 10
"Debugging Computer Programs" by D. D. McCracken,
4/2 (Feb.), 27
Dickson, Gordon R., "The Monkey Wrench", 4/6 (May),
21
Differential analyzer, digital, 4/1 (Jan.), 8
Digital computer, coding for, 4/9 (Sept.), 21
"The Digital Differential Analyzer" by George F.
Forbes, 4/1 (Jan.), 6
Directory: The Computer Directory, 1955,4/6 {J~
whole issue
Dumey, Arnold I., "Economies in Design of Incomplete Selection Circuits with Diode Elements",
3/10 (Dec. 1954),36
E: Eastern Joint Computer Conference, B 0 s ton,
November, 1955, notice, 4/9 (Sept.), 30
Eastern Joint Computer Conference, Boston, Nov.,
1955 -- Titles of Papers and Abstracts, 4/11
(Nov.), 12
"Eastern Joint Computer Conference, Philadelphia,
Dec. 1954" by Milton Stoller, 4/1 (Jan.), 14
"Eastern Joint Computer Conference, Philadelphia,
Dec. 1954" -- Titles of Papers and Abstracts,
4/1 (Jan.), 15
Eckert, W. J., "The Significance of the New Computer NORC" , 4/2 (Feb.), 10
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"Economic Changes from Automation" (in The Editor's
Notes),4/5 (May), 4
"Economies in Design of Incomplete Selection C i rcuits with Diode Elements", by Arnold 1. Dumey,
3/10 (Dec. 1954), 36
Eisenpress, Harry, and others, "Charting on ,Auto~
matic Data Processing Systems", 4/8 (Aug.), 21
Electronic Computer Conference, Darmstadt, Germ~,
Oct. 1955,4/8 (August), 1955
"Electronic Computers and Related Topics -- Fo u r
Special Surmner Courses", by Arvid Jacobson, 4,.5
(May),20
"Electronic Scanning and Detection of Poss ib 1 e,
Cancer Cells" by Neil' Macdonald (in Forum), 4/3
(March), 34
'
Elmore, William B., "Reliability in Elec t ron i c
Data Processors", 4/5 (May) , 6
Equations, solution by analog computer, 4/3 (Ma~,
12
'
F: "Fences" Un The Editor's Notes), 4/4 (Aprill,4
"The Finan-Seer" by E. L. Locke, 4/2 (Feb.), 14
"Finding Out that Somethin'g Exists" by Neil Macdonald, 4/1 (Jan.), 23
Finn, D. L., "Conference on Instrumentati 0 n for
Data Handling, Atlanta, November, 1955" (i n
Forum), 4/9 (Sept.), 30
"First Supersonic Flight Simulator" by Neil Macdonald, 4/5 (May), 40
Fixed-point computers, numerical representation,in
4/5 (May), 10
'
Fluid flow, use of analog computers, 3/10 {Dec.
1954),24
Forbes, George F., "The Digital Differential AnalY2:er", 4/1 (Jan.), 8
Forsythe, George E.,' "Collection of Materia 1 . 0 n
, Exploitation of Automatic Digi tid Computers "
(in Forum), 4/7 (July), 31
Forum -- SEE specific author, subject, or title
"Found -- A 'Lost' Moon" by Dr. Paul Herget, 4/11
(Nov.), 10
"Franchise" by Isaac Asimov, 4/9 (Sept.), 17
G: Generation of random numbers, 4/3 (March), 10
Gilchris t, Bruce, "Computers and Weather Pre di ction, 4/3 (March), 8
"Glossary of Terms in the Fi~ld of Computers and
Automation" (second edition, cumulative), 3/10
(Dec. 1954), 8
Greeting to Computers, pU2:2:1e, 3/10 (Dec. 1954),4i
solution, 4/1 (Jan.), .13
Griffi th,' L. E., "Automatic Answering of Inquiries"', '
4/11 (Nov.), 6
Gruenberg, Elliot L., "Thinking Machines and Human
Personali ty", 4/4 (April), 6
.
H: Harlow, Dr. Harry F., "The Brain and Learned
Behavior", 4/10 (Oct.r, 6
Heat Transfer, use of analog computers, 3/10 (Dec.
1954),24
Herget, Dr. Paul, "Found --A 'Lost' Moon", 4/11
(Nov.), 10
Hopper, Dr. G. M., "Automatic Coding for Digi ta 1
Computers", 4/9 (Sept.), 21
Householder, Alston S., "Computers and Computation,
Abroad and Here", 4/2 (Feb.), 32
Householder, Alston S., "Mathematics, the Schools
and the Oracle", 4/7 (July), 6
"The Human Relations of Computers and Automation",
by Fletcher Pratt, 3/10 (Dec. 1954), 6
I: IBM 702,4/9 (Sept.), 6
Index, Dec. 1953 to Nov. 1954, 3/10 (Dec. 1954~40
Industrial Electronics Conference, Detroit, Sept.
1955,4/7 (July), 32

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Inquiries, automatic answering of, 4/11 (Nov.), 6
"An Inside-Out Magnetic Drum" by Neil Macdonald,
4/1 (Jan.), 26
Intelligence, variation in, 4/10 (Oct.), 4
Inventory problem, 4/9 (Sept.), 6_
J: Jacobson, " Arvid, "Electronic Computers and
Related Topics -- Four Special Summer Courses",
4/5 (May), 20
Joint Computer Conference -- SEE Eastern J 0 i n t
Computer Conferencei Western Computer Confer. ence
,
Jones, J. Melvin, "Marginal Checking: An Ai d in
Preventive Maintenance of Computers", 4/4 (A, pril) , 10 '
"Justifying the Use of an Automatic Computer" by
Ned Chapin, 4/8 (August),' 17
K: Keefe, T. J., Jr~,' "Truer Input Functions in
Electronic Analog Computers", 4/1 (Jan.), 27
L: Learned'behavior and the brain, 4/10 (Oct.),6
"Linear Programming and Computers: Part 1" b Y
Chandler Davis, 4/7 (July), 10
"Linear Programming and Computers: Part 2"
b Y
Chandler Davis, 4/8 (August), 10
Literature searching, 4/1 (Jan.), 26
Locke, E. L., "The Finan-Seer", 4/2 (Feb.), 14
M: Macdonald" Neil, "Automatic Programmed Co mponent Assembly System", 4/2 (Feb.), 34
Macdonald, Neil, "A Big Inventory Problem and the
IBM 702", 4/9 (Sept.), 6
Macdonald. Neil, "Electronic Scanning and Detection of Possible Cancer Cells", 4/3 (March),
34
Macdonald, Neil, "Finding Out that Something Exists", 4/1 (Jan.), 23
Macdonald, Neil, "First Supersonic Flight S i mulator", 4/5 (May), 40
Macdonald, Neil, "An Inside-Out Magnetic Drum",
4/i (Jan.), 26
Machinery and Allied Products Institute (MAPI) ,
address of, 4/10 (Oct.), 38
Maginniss, F. J., '~roposed Symposium on Numerical Analysis" Un Forum), 4/9 (Sept.), 31
Magnetic drum, 4/1 (Jan.), 18i 26
Magnetic Reading Head, 4/8 (August), 24
Maintenance of computers, 4/4 (April), 10
Manning of computers, 4/10 (Oct.), 28
"Marginal Checking: An Aid in Preventive Ma i ntenance of Computers" by J. Me~vin Jones, 4/4
(April), 10
"The Marketing of a Computer" (in The Ed i tor's
. Notes), 4/9 (Sept.), 4
"Mathematics, the Schools and the Oracle", b y
Alston S. Householder, 4/7 (July), 6
, frkCall, J. B., "Binary Ari thmetic" (in For u m) ,
4/1 (Jan.), 11
McCracken, D. D., "Debugging Computer Programs"
(in Forum), 4/2 (Feb.), 27
-McPherson, James L., and others, "Charting 0 n
Automatic Data Processing Systems", 4/8
(August), 21
"A Mechanical Analog Computer for Solving Linear
Simul taneous Algebraic Equations" by Cy r i 1
P. Atkinson, 4/3 (March), 12
Meeting -- SEE Conference
MIDAC (Michigan Digital Automatic Comp u te r) ,
problems for, 4/2 (Feb.), 6
Michigan, Universi ty of, SUlllIler Session Not e s
on Computers and Data Processors, 4/U(Nov.),
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iii tchell, James P., "The Skills of the Am e ric an

fro m p age

Work Force", 4/5 (May), 29
Monkey Wrench" by Gordon R. Dickson, 4'5 (May),
21
!!:. National Bureau of Standards, "A Rotating
Reading Head ,for Magnetic Tape and Wire': 4/8
(Aug.), 24
National Simulation Conference, Jan. 1956, 4/7
(July), 3 2 '
N?tional Telermtering Confer.ence, 4/1 (Jan.), 4
Naval Ordnance Research Computer (NORC), 4/2 (Feb.),
10
"New Patents" by Raymond R. Skolnick, 4/11· (Nov.\34
Nolan, John E., "Analog computers and Their AWlication to Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow--Part
2", 3/10 (Dec., 1954), 24
Nolan, John E., "Analog Computers and Their AWlication to Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow--Part
3", Bibliography, 4/1 (Jan,), 31
Nurmrical analysis, proposed symposium, 4/9 (S~t.),
31
"Nurmrical Representation in Fixed-Point Computers"
by Beatrice H.,~.Qrsley, 4/5 (May), 10
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Oracle, 4/7 (July), 6
Orente,:Ro~e J., "The Book Reviewer", 4/7 (July),22
Orkild, CarlO., "Approaching Automation in a Casualty Insurance Company", 4/2 (Feb.), 19
P:
Papers and Articles on Computers (in The Editor's Notes), 4/10 (Oct.), 4
"Patents", by Hans Schroeder, 3/10 (Dec. 1954),35;
4/1 (Jan.), 17; 4/2 (Feb.), 33; 4/3 (March~29;
4/4 (April), 46; 4/7 (July), 30
Patents by Raymond R. Skolnick, 4/11 (Nov.), 34
Personality, and thinking machines, 4/4 (April), 6
Personnel for computers, 4/10 (Oct.), 28
"The Place of Computers in Society" (in The Editor\;
Notes), 4/7 (July), 4
Population of automatic computers, estimated comrmrcial, 4/3 (March), 30
Pratt, Fletcher, ''The Human Relations of Computers
and Automation", 3/10 (Dec., 1954), 6
"Problems for Students of Computers" by John W.
Carr III, 4/2 (Feb.), 6
''Problems Involved in the Application of Electronic Digi ial Computers to Business Operations"
by John M. Breen, 4/3 (March), 16
''Products and Services for Sale in the Com p u ter
Field", (cumulative roster) 4/6 (June), 118
"Products and Services in the Computer .Fie1d'! ~.1pha~
betic list of types 4/4 (April), 37; 4/6 (June)"
48
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Programming, automatic, 4/9 (Sept.), 4, 25; 4/10
(Oct.), 15
Progranming, automatic progranming of produc tio n
machinery, 4/7 (July), 2 9 .
Programming, linear, 4/7 (July), 10; 4/8 (AugJ,lO
Progranming Research Section, Remington Rand, "Automatic Progranming: The A 2 Compiler S y s t em"
Part 1,4/9 (Sept.), 25; Part 2,4/10 (OctJ15
"Proposed Symposium on Numerical Analysis" by F.J.
Maginniss (in Forum), 4/9 (Sept.), 31
"Publications for Business on Automatic Computers:
A Basic Listing" by Ned Chapin, 4/9 (Sept.), 13
.Q:. "Question" by Issac Asimov, 4/3 (March), 6
R:
"Random Numbers and Their Generation" by Gordon Spenser, 4/3 (March), 10
Raskin, A. H., "Automation Puts Industry on Eve of
Fantastic Robot Era--Its Effect on Wo rker s
Spurs Unions' Drive for Annual Wage", 4/5
(May),27
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"fRecognh:ing Spoken Sounds by Means of a Comp1'ter':
by Andrew D. Booth, 4/2 (Feb.), 9
Reference information, types published, 4/1 (Jan.),
23 .
"Reliability in Electronic Data Processors" by
William B. Elmore, 4/5 (May), 6
Remington Rand, Programming Research Section, '~ur
matic PrograJ1DIling: The IA 2 Compiler System"
Part 1, 4/9 (Sept.), 25; Part 2, 4/10 (Oct.\15
"Roster of Automatic Computers", (cumulative),'
4/2 (Feb.), 23; (supplermnt)-, 4/4 (April):41
''Roster of Automatic Computing Services': (cumulative) , 4/1 (Jan.), 20; 4/6 (June), 123
"Roster of Organizations in the Computer Fi e 1 d"
(cumulative), 4/6 (June), 103
"Ros ter of Organizations in the Field of CanJllters
and Automation", supplements: 3/10 ( Dec.
1954),23; 4/1 (Jan.), 36; 4/2 (Feb.), 30;
4/3 (March), 24
,"A Rotating Reading Head for Magnetic Tape and
Wire", by National Bureau of Standards, 4/8
(Aug.), 24
S:
Salveson, M. E., "The Tale of a Cow",
4/8
(Aug.), 20 "Schroeder, Hans, "Computers to Make AdministratiYe Decisions?", 4/3 (March), 28
Schroeder, Hans, "Patents", 3/10 (Dec. 1954),35;
4/1 (Jan.), 17; 4/2 (Feb.), 33; 4/3 (March),
29; 4/4 (April), 46; 4/7 (July), 30
.Science Fiction (in The Editor's Notes),
4/2
(Feb.),4
Science Fiction: "The Book Reviewer" by Rose J.
Orente, 4/7 (July), 22
"The Finan-seer", by E. L. Locke, 4/2 (Feb.),14
"Franchise" by Isaac Asimov, 4/9 (Sept.), 17
"Mister Andrew Lloyd", 4/11 (Nov.), 14
"The Monkey Wrench", by Gordon R. Dickson, 4/5
(May), 21
"Question", by 1. Asimov, 4/3 (March), 6
Shera, Dean Jesse H., "Conference on 'The Practical Utilization of Knowledge', Cleveland,
January 1956", 4/9 (Sept.), 30
Shiskin, Julius i "Charting on Automatic Data· Processing Systems", 4/8 (Aug.), 21
Shively, Harmon G., "Automatic Progranming of Production Machinery", 4/7 (July), 29
"The Skills of the Armrican Work Force" by Jarms
P. Mitchell, 4/5 (May), 29
Skolnick, Raymond R., "New Patents", 4/11 (Nov),
34
"The Significance of the New Computer NORC" by
W. J. Eckert, 4/2 (Feb.), 10
.
Simulator, supersonic flight, 4/5 (May), 40
"A Small High-Speed Magnetic Drum" by M. K. Taylor,
. 4/1 (Jan.), 18
"Some Curiosities of Binary Arithmetic Useful in
Testing Binary Computers" by ~drew D. Booth,
4/8 (Aug.), 33
Spenser, Gordon, '~andom Numbers and. Their Generation", 4/3 (March), 10
. Spenser, Gordon, "Statistics and Automatic Computers", 4/1 (Jan.), 6
Spoken sounds, recognition by a computer, 4/2
(Feb.), 9
.
"Statistics and Automatic Computers" by Go r d Qg.
Spenser, 4/1 (Jan.), 6
Stoller, Mil ton, "Eastern Joint Computer Conference, Philadelphia, Dec. 1954'\ 4/1 (JanJ,14
Students of computers, problems for, 4/2 (Feb.),6
Symposium--SEE Conference
.
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NEW

PATENTS

Raymond R. Skolnick, aeg. Patent Agen~
Ford Instrument Co., Div.,of Sperry Rand Corp.,
Long Island City, N.Y.

The"following is a compilation of patents pertaining to computers and associated equipment
from the Official Gazette of the UniUrl States
Patent Office, dates of issue as in d ic a ted.
Each entry consists of: patent numbe r I i n- .
ventor(s) I assignee I invention.
July 5. 1955: 2,712,269 I Robert F. Garbarini.
Woodside, Lisle L. Wheeler, Garden Ci~ •. and
John R. Ericson, Westbury, N.Y. I The ~errj
Corp. / Computing apparatus for a dive-borrtr
sight.
2,712, 415 / Raymo.nd G. Piety, Bartlesville,
Okla. / Phillips Petroleum Co. / Op tic a 1
computer for multiplying algebraically two
functions.
July 12. 1955: 2,713,135 / F. Sutlerland Macklem, Freeport, N. Y. I Servo Corp. of America,
New Hyde Park, N.Y. / An interpolation servomechanism.
2,713,143 I Charles Dickens Bock, New York, N.
Y. / American Bosch Arma Corp. / An electromechanical resolver.
July 19, 1955: 2,713,456 / Eugene E. Reynol~
Richmond, Calif.·1 Marchant Calculators, Inc.
/ A machine for translating binary values to
decimal values.
2,713,457 / Frank W. Bubb, Webster Groves, Mo.
I Phillips Petroleum Co. / A colDftlting system.
2,713,674 / William F. ~chmitt, Philadelphia,
Pa. I Remington. Ra~dt .Inc., Philadelphia, Pa.
/ A flip-flop circuit using a sfngle core.
2,713,675 I William F. Schmitt, Philadelphia,
Pa. / Remington Rand,' Inc., Philadelphia, Pa.
/ A single core binary counter.
2,713,680 I Erik Acket'lrlind, Redondo Beac h,
Calif. / Northrop Aircraft, Inc., Hawthorne,
Calif. I A device for connecting rotational .
motion of an object to significant electrical potentials.
July 26. 1955: 2,714,180 I John C. Man 1 e y,
Barrington, R.I. / Reconstruction Finance
Corp., Boston, Mass. / An electronic imp~e
counting device.
2,714,202 / James R. Downing, Chicago, 111./
Cook Electric Co., Chicago, Ill. / A recording system utilizing a single control signal
capable of controlling two characteristics
of the signal.
2,714,204 I Bernard Lippel and.Joseph A. Bue~
ler, Red Bank, N.J. I United S tat e s 0 f

America I Apparatus for parallel translation
of digital code group signals from cy c 1 i c
binary to standard binary code.
August 2. 1955: 2,714,658 / Alexander Greenfield, Detroit, Mich. I Bendix Aviation Oor~,
Detroit, Mich. I A pulse source for providing a plurality of pulses in a given sequence.
2,714,693 I Christiann J. Van Eyk, Byram, Con~
I - / Electric servo control circuit.
2,714,701 I Edward Joseph Henley, Chicago,Ill.1
American Telephone and Telegraph Co. I Voltage regulation circuit •
. 2,714,704 / Wendell C. Morrison, Pr in c e ton,
N. J. / Radio Corp. of America I Quantizin g
modulation circuit arrangement.
2,714,705 / Philip Eckert Volz, Florham Park,
N. J. I Radio Corp. of America / Electr on i c
phase shifting system •.
2,714,708 I Glenn N. Howatt and Abraham I. Dranetz, Metuchen, N. J. / Gul ton Mfg. Cor p • ,
Metuchen, N. J. I Delay lines.
August 9, 1955: 2,714,901. I Louis Cas per,
Richmond Hill, N. Y. I Electrotex Corp., New
York, N. Y. / Electrical control system and
apparatus.
2,714,947 I Roman J. Dolude, Los Angeles, Calif. I Summers Gyroscope Co., Santa Monica,
Calif. I Servo mechanism (mechanical).
2,715,182 / Amasa S. Bishop,. Cambridge, Mass.1
United States of America I Variable rat e
sweep voltage generator.
2,715,188 I Donald F. Jameson, Rochester, N.Y.I
Stromberg-Carlson to. / Pulse generator.
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Discussion. We desire to print in "Forum" briEf
discussions, arguments, announceroonts, news,
letters, descriptions of remarkable new devel~
opments, etc., anything liketly to be of ~ter­
est to computer people.
Payments. In many cases, we make small to ken
payments for articles, pa~rs, and fiction, if
the author wishes to be paid. The rate is ~
or 1 c a' word, the maximum is $20 or $40, and
both depend on length in words, whether prinUd
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netics, automation; etc., ancr-Uleir 1inplicat-ions, and which at· the same time is a good stoty.
Ordinarily, the length should be 1000 to 4000
words.

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MAGAZINES RELATED TO COMPUTERS AUTOMATION - ROSTER
(Edition 2, Cumulative, information as of November 3, 1955)

The purpose of this Roster is to report mag~es
having some relation ,to the field of computers am
automation: computing· machinery,' computing'sys tens,
data-handling equipment, automatic control, automatic materials handling, etc.
Each Roster entry when complete contains: ,name
of the magazine I frequency I publisher and address I emphasis I audience and availability I
circulation I advertising'l some notes and comments. We shall be grateful for any additions or
corrections that· any reader is able to 'send us.
Although we have' tried to make this Roster complete and accurate, we assume no liabil'i ty for
any statements expressed or implied.
, For more information about any of these magazin~
inquiry should be addressed to the publisher of
,the magazine.
American Business I monthly I Dartnell Ptbl.icatiom,
4660 Ravenswood Ave., Chicago 40, Illinois I
,emphasis: management, office administration,
'office methods, finance I annual subscription
rate, $4.00 I -'I contains advertising.
Occasional articles on computers.
Automatic Control I' monthly I Reinhold Publishing
Co., 430 Park Ave., New York 22, N. Y. /' elJlXIasis: aid management in making more and better
use of automatic control in every possible way
I free to management men in the control field;
$10~00 annual subscription to others I about
30,000, controlled I contains advertising.
,Articles on computers in each issue.
Usually one or more.
Automation I monthly I Penton Publ ishing Company,
Penton Bldg., Cleveland 13,Ohiol emphasis:
management, supervision, and engineering,phases·of automation in their broadest sense I'
free to selected prospective buyers or specifiers of components, machines, or equipment~
.v~lved in automatic operations; $10.00 annual
subscription to others I about 25,00~anbriUed
,I contain~ advertising.
Ordinar.:Uy an article on computers in ,
each issue.
Computers and Automation I monthly I Berkeley Enterprises, Inc., 36 West 11 St., New York 11,
N. Y. I emphasis: articles, papers, reference
information and some science fiction' on computers and their implications and applications,
including automation I directed to persons interested in automatic computers and their im-plications and applications; paid-for; annual
subscription rate $5.50 I about 2000 Icontaim
advert'is ing.
,'
'
" Devoted to' 'computerS and their, implications and appl ications.
"
Control Engineering I monthly / McGraw Hill Publishing'Co., 330 West 42 St.,' New York' 36, N.y.

I emphasis:

use of a small amount of power to
control a large aroount; instrumentation; automatic' control systems I directed to design and
process engineers and technica11ytrained'man;..
agement men; annual subscription rate $3.00 I
about 28,000 I contains advertising.
Several. articles on computers in each
issue.
Data Processing Digest I IOOnthly I Canning, Sisson
and Associates, 914 South Robertson Blvd., Los
Angeles 35, Calif. I emphasis: digests of co~
puter articles; information, appli~ations,eq~
ment, etc. I directed to management; paid-fori
annual subscription $24.00 I no advertising.
A collection of abstracts or excerpts
from articles originally appearing in a
wide variety, of publications. ,Material
is selected from these publications for
condensation when it is "meaningful in
the field of data processing".
Digi tal' Compu'ter Newsletter I quarterly' I Office
of Naval Research, U. S. Navy Dept'." Washington
'25, D.C. I emphasis: news of digital ,computers
and data-processing I a,vailable .free .to government agencies' and government contractors 'only;
reprinted in the "Journal of the Association1br
Computing Machinery", which see I est~ 1000 I
no advertising.
Electronic Design I monthly I Hayden, 'Publishing
Co., 127 East 55,St., New York 22, N. Y. /. emphasis: electronic design I circulation only
to electronic design engineers I 24,000; controlled,l contains advertising.
Its relation to computers is the design
of electronic gear that may be,used in
them. Vol. 3, No. 10, October, 1955, included articles on components and building blocks needed for analog ,and digitm
computers, and ideas for computer de~
Electronics I monthly'l McGraw-Hill Publishing 'Co"
330 West 42 St., New York 36, N.Y. I emphasis:
electronic equipment, its design, specifications, uses, production techniques Icirculation
, only to persons engaged in theory, research,
design production, maintenance and ,use of ele'ctronic and industrial control equipment; $6.00
annual subscription I - I contains aavertising.
Its relation t~ computers is the design
of electronic equipment that may be used
in them~
Industrial'Laboratories I Industrial Laboratories
Publishing Co., 201 North Wells St.; Chicago 6,
Ill. I monthly I. emphasis: reporting significant developments ,to scientists and engineers
interested in technological progress I,free to
persons holding responsi~le positions in industrial research; to others, annual subscription
$10.00 I contains advertising.
"
Occasional articles deal with computing
machinery and its uses. Computing mach(continued

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ines and components are
New Products section.
Instruments and Automation / monthly / Instrumen~
Publishing Co., 845 Ridge Ave., Pittsburgh 1,
Pa. / emphasis: instruments, instrumentation,
and automatic control/directed to management
and engineers primarily responsible for the
specification, purchase, and installation of
instruments and automatic controls; paid-for;
annual subscription rate $4.00 / about 18,000/
contains advertising.
Occasional articles on co~uters.
IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers /quarterly / Professional Group on Electronic Computer~
Institute of Radio Engineers, One East 79 St.,
New York 21, N.Y. / emphasis: the entire field
of electronic computers / annual subscription
for nonmembers, $17.00 / - / no advertising.
Issue of June 1955 contains a survey of
analog computer installations.
,
ISA Journal/monthly / Instrument Society afAmerica, 1319 Allegheny Ave., Pittsburgh 33, Pa. /
emphasis: instruments and instrumentation, and
news and information for members / directed to
members of the society; paid-for; annual subscription rate $5.00 / about 8000 / contains
advertising.
Occasional articles on computers.
The Journal of Computing Systems / at intervals /
The Institute of Applied Logic, 3101 East 42 St.,
Minneapolis 6, Minn. / e. . asis: a "coDDnon rmeting ground" for the fields of logical and ma1tematical systems and computing machinery / $5.00
annual subscription / - / no advertising.
Papers on logical and mathematical~ms
in the field and topics of computing
machinery.
Journal of the Association for Computing Machinety,
2 East 63 St., New York 21, N. Y. / emphasis;
technical papers on automatic computing machinery submitted by members / directed to members
of the 'association; annual subscription rate
$6.00 (includes dues) / est. 1800 /no advertising.
Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics / quarterly / Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics, P.O. Box 7541, Philadelphia 1, Pa. / emphasis: mathematical techniques and methods and their applications /directed to mathematicians and other technical and
scientific personnel; annual subscription $8.00
/ - / contains advertising.
Has incl uded a series of articles on automatic digi tal computers in industrial :research.
Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation
/ quarterly / National Research Council, Wa sitington, D.C. / emphasis: mathematical tables,
numerical analysis, some developments in computing'machinery / directed to mathematicians, computer men, etc; paid-for; annual subscription
rate $5.00 / est. 1500 / no advertising.
Mechanical Translation / - / Dept. ~f Modern Langu~ges and Research Laboratory of Electronics,
Mass. Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. /
emphasis: exclusively on the translation of
languages with the aid of machines / annual subscription $1.00 / - / no advertising.
Proceedings of the IRE / monthly / Institute of
Radio Engineers, One East 79 St., New York 21,

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N.Y. / emphasis: technical developments in
radio, electronics, television, communication,
etc. / directed to members of the IRE, radio
engineers, etc.; paid-for; annual subscription
rate about $13.00 (includes dues) / about
38,000 / contains advertising.
Most technical papers on electronic aspects of computers, submitted by ~,
are published in the "IRE Transactions
on Electronic Computers" (see above)
Scientific American / monthly / Scientific American, Inc., 2 West 45 St., New York 36, N. Y. /
emphasis: ideas and developments in all ph~s
of science, reported for educated men in other
specialties / directed to technical management;
paid-for; annual subscription $5.00 / abo u t
120,000 / contains advertising.
Occasional articles on computers and
automation.
Systems / bi-monthly / Systems Maga~ine,Remingtqn
Rand, Inc., 315 Fourth Ave., New York 10, N.Y.
/ emphasis: interchange of ideas on business
operation by management / free to many management men; 35~ single copy price / - / contains Remington Rand advertising.
Many articles on computer applications,
especially Univac.
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"The Tale of a Cow" by M. Eo. Salveson (i n
Forum), 4/8 (Aug.), 20
Tarrant, W. K., "Automatic Data Processing Forum,
New York", (in Forum), 4/10 (Oct.), 38
Taylor, M. K., "A Small High-Speed Magnetic Drum",
4/1, (Jan.), 18
Telerretering: National Telemetering Conference,
4/1 (Jan.), 4
"Thinking Machines and Human Personality" by Elliot L. Gruenberg, 4/4 (April), 6
"Truer Input Functions in Electronic Analog Computers" by T. J. Keefe, Jr., 4/1 (Jan.), 27
U:
UAW-CIO, "Automation: A Report to the U A WCIO Economic and Collective Bargaining Conference", 4/5 (May), 14
Unions' drive for annual wage, effect of automation on, 4/5 (May), 27
"University of Michigan Sunmer Session Note s on
Computers and Data Processors" by John W. Carr,
(in Forum), 4/11 (Nov.), 9
University of Wisconsin Conference, August, 1955,
4/1 (Jan.), 4
V:
"Variation in Intelligence" (in The Edi tor's
Notes), 4/10 (Oct.), 4
W:
Wallace, Richard W., "Mister Andrew Lloyd" ,
4/11 (Nov.), 14
Weather prediction, 4/3 (March), 8
Weber, F. Palmer, "The AdVance of Automation" (in
Forum), 4/11 (Nov.), 31
"Western Computer Conference and Exhibit, Los Angeles; March, 1955: Titles of Papers and
Abstracts", 4/4 (April), 38
Western Joint Computer Conference, notice, 4/1
(Jan.), 4
"Who Are Manning the New Computers?" by J 0 h n M.
Breen, 4/10 (Oct.), 28
"Who's Who in the Computer Field", cumulative, 4/6
(June), 6; supplement 1, 4/6 (June), 148; supplement 2, 4/10 (Oct.), 29
Worsley, Beatrice H., "Numerical Representation in
Fixed-Point Comput.ers". 4/5 (May), 10
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ROSTER ENTRY FORMS
"Computers and Automation" publishes from tine
to time reference information of the followin g
three types: (1) a who's. who or roster of individuals interested in the computer field; (2) a roster
of organi~ations active in the computer field; and
(3) a classified directory o"r roster of produc t s
and services offered in the computer field. The
last cumulative editions of rosters' (1) an d (3)
appeared in "The Computer Directory, 1955". The
last cumulative roster (2) appears in this issue.
If you are interested in sending information to us
for these rosters and their supplements, following
is the form of entry for each of these three rosters. To avoid tearing the magazine, the form may
be copied on an, sheet of paper.
(1)

Name (please print)

2.

Your Address?

3.

Your

4.

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5.

Your Title?

6.

YOUR MAIN COMPUlER INTERES1S?

Entry Form

1.

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2.

Address? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

3.

Telephone number? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

4.

Types of computing machinery or components,
or computer-field products and services that
you are interested in?

5.

Types of activity that you engage in:
( ) research
( )other (please explain):
( ) manufacturing
( ) selling
( ) consulting

6.

Approximate number of your employees? _ ___

7.

Year when you were established? _ _ _ _ __

8.

Any conunents? _ _ _ _ _ _ _--'_ _ _ _ __

Who's Who Entry Form

1.

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organi~ation

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into place, but are integral parts of the coil terminals and contact springs-thus preventing IDternalloss in conductivity or continuity.
2. Terminal design permits direct plug-in of the relay
into a printed circuit board, ready to be secured 'in
place with any acceptable soldering technique.
Usually the desired contact spring combination, or
pile-up, is sufficiently large so that additional mounting
(support) of the relay is not necessary.

SQD Miniature Printed Circuit Relays are available
with many different contact spring arrangements, and
for a multitude of applications. Springs can be made of
phosphor-bronze, ttBronco" metal, or other specialpurpose materials, as required.
Of course the long life, heavy-duty features of the
improved SQD Relay can be had in the conventional
type of plug-in relay, if regular sockets are preferred for
use, whether in printed circuitry or other applications.
To get complete details, write: Automatic Electric Sales
Corporation, 1033 West Van Buren St., Chicago 7,
Illinois. In Canada: Automatic Electric (Canada) Lt~.,
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COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION
December. 1954: The Human Relations of Computers
and Automation -- Fletcher Pratt
Analog Computers and Their Application to Heat
Transfer and Fluid Flow -- Part 2 -- John E.
Nolan
Economies in Design' of Inco m plete Selection
Circuits with Diode ElelOOnts -- Arnold I.
DulOOY
January. 1955: Statistics and Automatic Computers
-- Gordon Spenser
Eastern Joint Computer Conference, Philadelphia,
Dec. 8-10,1954 -- Milton Stoller
The Digital Differential Analy~er -- George F.
Forbes
A Small High-Speed Magnetic Drum -- M. K. Taylor
'
An Inside-out Magnetic Drum -- Neil Macdonald
February: Problems for Students of Computers
John W. Carr, III
Recogni~ing Spoken Sounds by Means of a Computer -- Andrew D. Booth
The Significance of the New Computer NOR C
W. J. &kertThe Finan-8eer -- E. L. Locke
Approaching Automation in a Casuaity Insurance
Company ~ CarlO. Orkild
March: Question -- Isaac Asimov
Computers and Weather Prediction -- Bruc e
Gilchrist
Random Numbers and Their Generation -- Gord 0 n
Spenser
Problems Involved in the Application of Electronic Digi tal Computers to Business Oper ations -- John M. Breen
Computers to Make Administrative Decisions? -Hans Schroeder
April: Thinking Machines and Human Personality-Elliot L. Gruenberg
Marginal Checking -- An Aid in Preventive ~
tenance of Computers -- J. Melvin Jones
May: Reliability in Electronic Data Process 0 r s
-- William B. Elmore
NUlOOrical Representation in Fix e d - Poi n t
Computers -- Beatrice H. Worsley
Automation -- A}Report to the UAW-CIO Economic
and Collective Bargaining Conference
The Skills of the AlOOrican Labor Force -- James
P. Mitchell
Automation Puts Industry on Eve of Fantas tic
Robot Era -- A. H. Raskin
The Monkey Wrench -- Gordon R. Dickson
June: THE COMPpTER DIRECTORY, 1955 (164 page s) :
Part 1: Who's Who in the Computer Field
Part 2: Roster of Organi~ations in the Co mputer Field
Part 3: The Computer Field: Prod uc ts and
Services for Sale
July: Mathematics, the Schools, and the Oracle-Alston S. Householder
.
The Application of Automatic Computing EquipIOOnt to Savings Bank Operations -- R. Hu n t
Brown
The Book Reviewer -- Rose Orente
Linear Programming and Computers, Par t I -Chandler Davis
August: The Automation of Bank Check Processing-R. Hunt Brown
Linear Programming and Computers, Par t II -Chandler Davis
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Back Copies

Justifying the Use of an Automatic Computer -Ned Chapin
Charting on Automatic Data Process ing System s
-- Harry Eisenpress, James L. McPherson, and
Julius Shiskin
A Rotating Reading Head for Magnetic Tape an d
Wire -- National Bureau of Standards
Sorre Curiosities of Binary Arithmetic Usefu 1
in Testing Binary Computers -- Andrew D. Booth
September: A Big Inventory Problem an d the IBM
702 -- Neil Macdonald
Publications for Business on Automatic Computers:
A Basic Listing -- Ned Chapin
Franchise -- Isaac Asimov
Automatic Coding for Digital Computers -- G. M.
Hopper
Automatic Programming: The A-2 Compiler System
-- Part 1
October: The Brain and Learned Behavior -- Dr.
Harry F. Harlow
Automatic Programming: The A-2 Compiler Syste m
-- Part 2
Who Are Manning the New Computers? -- John M.
Breen
November: Automatic Answering of Inquiries -- L.
E. Griffith
Found -- A "Lost" Moon -- Dr. Paul Herget
Mister AndreI" Lloyd -- R. W. Wallace
REFERENCE INFORMATION (in various issues):
Roster of Organi~ations in the Computer Field /
Roster of Automatic Computing Services / Ros. ter of Maga~ines Related to Computer san d
Automation / Automatic Computers: List/ Automatic Computers: Estimated Commercial Population / Automatic Computing Machinery: List 0 f
Types / Components of Automati c Computing
Machinery: List of Types / Products and Se rvices in the Computer Field / Who's Who in
the Computer Field / Automation: Lis t 0 f
Outstanding Examples / Boo k sand 0 the r
Publications / Glossary / Patents

BACK COPIES: Price, if available, $1. 25 eac h,
except June, 1955,$6.00. Vol. I, no.l,Sept.
1951, to vol. 1, no. 3,. July, 1952: 0 u t 0 f
print. Vol. 1, no. 4, Oc t. 1952: in. print.
Vol. 2, no. 1, Jan. 1953, to vol. 2, no. 9,
Dec. 1953: in print exce pt Ma rch, no.2,
and May, no. 4. Vol. 3, no. 1, Jan. 1954, to
vol. 3, no. 10, Dec. 1954: in print. Vo 1. 4,
1955: in print.
A subscription (see rates on page 4) may be spec, ified to begin with the current month's or the
preceding month's issue.

WRITE TO:
Berkeley Enterprises, Inc.
Publisher of COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION
36 West 11 St., New York 11, N. Y.

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Memorandum from Berkeley Enterprises, Inc.
Publisber of COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION
36 West 11 St., New York 11, N.Y.

1. What is "COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION"? It is
a monthly magazine containing articles, papers,
and reference information related to computing
machinery, robots, au tom a ti c con tro 1 , cybernetics, automation, etc. One importantpiece
of reference information published is the "Roster of Organizations in the Field of Computers
and Automation". The basic subscription rate
is $5.50 a year in the United States. Single
copies are $1.25, except June, 1955. "The Computer Direc't:ory" (164 pages, $6.00). For the
titles of articles and papers in recent issues
of the magazine, see the "Back Copies" page in
this issue.
2. What is the circulation? The circulation
includes :1900 subscribers (as or Nov. 10): over
300 purchasers of individual back copies; and
an estimated 2500 nonsubscribing readers. The
logical readers of COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATIO N
are people concerned wi th the field of computers
and automation. These include a great number
of people who will make recommendation s t 0
their organizations about purchasing computmg
machinery, similar machinery, and components,
and whose decisions may involve very supstan~
tial figures. The print order for the De~.
issue was 2400 copies. The overrun is largeiy
held for eventual ~ale as back copies, and in
the case of several issues the overr u n has
been exhausted through such sale.

copy that may be put under the photooffset
camera without further preparation. Unscreened
photographic prj nts and any other copy :requi ring additional preparation for photooffs e t
should be furnished separately; it will be prepared, finished, and charged to the advertiser
at small additional costs. In the cas e 0 f
printed inserts, a sufficient quantity for the
issue should be shipped to our printer, address
on request.
Display advertising is sold in units of a full
page (ad size 7" x 10", basic rat e, $l90), tlVOthirds page (basic rate, $145), and half page
(basic rate, $97); back cover, $370; inside
front or back cover, $230. Extra for co lor
red (full pages only and only in certain positions), 35%. Thto-page printed insert (0 n e
sheet) , .$320; four-page printed insert (tw 0
sheets), $590. Classified advertising is sohl
by the word (60 cents a'word) with a minimum
of 20 words.
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5.
Who are our advertisers? Our advertisers
in recent issues have included the following
companies, among others:
The Austin Co.
Automatic Electric C04
Cambridge Thermionic Corp.
Federal Telephone and Radio Co.
Ferranti Electric Co.
Ferroxcube Corp. of America
General Electric Co.
Hughes Research and Development Lab.
International Business Machines Corp.
Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
Logistics Research, Inc.
Monrobot Corp.
Norden-Ketay Corp.
George A. Philbrick Researches, Inc.
Potter Instrument Co.
Raytheon Mfg. Co.
Reeves Instrument Co.
Remington Rand, Inc.
Sprague Electric C~
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.

3. What type of advertising does COMPUTE R S
AND AUTOMATION take? The purpose of the magazine is to be factual and to the point. For
this purpose the kind of advertising wanted is
the kind that answers questions factually. We
recommend for the audience that we reach, that
advertising be factual, useful, interesting,
understandable, and new from issue to issue.
We reserve the right not to accept advertising
that does not meet our standards.
4. What are the specifications and cos t of
advertising? COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION~ published on pages 8~" x 11" (ad size, 7" x 10")
and produced by photooffset,exceptthat printed sheet advertising may be inserted and bound
in with the magazine in most cases. The closing date for any issue is approxima tely the
10th of the month preceding. If possible, the
company advertising should produce final copy.
For photooffset, the copy should be exac t 1 y
as desired, actual size, and assembled, and
may include typing 9 writing, 1 in e dra win g,
printing, screened half tones, and any 0 th e r
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The technology of guid~d missiles is literally a
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The increasingly complex problems associated with missile
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Computer Research and Development
Engineering Management Problems

Inquiries are invited from those interested, in personal
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AMERICAN
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Senior members of our technical
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ADVERTISING INDEX
Ferroxcube Corp., East Bridge St . , Saugerties,
N. Y. I Magnetic Core Materials I page 37 I
CA No. 57
General Electric Co., Elec tronics Di v., Tub e
Dept., Schenectady, N. Y.. I Computer Tubes I
page 55 I CA No. 58
George A. Philbrick Researches, Inc .. , 230 Congre s s St., Bos ton 10, Ma s s. lEI e c t ron i c
Analog Computing Components I page 45 I CA
No. 59
Hughes Aircraft Co., Culver City', Cal if . I
Help Wanted I page 39 I CA No. 60
Lockheed Aircraft Corp., California Div., Burbank, Calif. I Career Opportuni tit.s I p age
53 I CA No. 61
Lockheed Missile Systems Div., 7701 Woodle y
Ave .. , Van Nuys, Calif .. I Missile Sys te m s
Mathematics I page 2 I CA No. 62
Remington Rand, Inc . , 315 4th Ave .. , New Yo r k
10, N. Y. I Univac I page 41 I CA No.' 63
Sprague Electric Company, 377 Marsha 11 St.,
North Adams, Mass . I Pulse Transformer Ki t I
page 56 (back cover) I CA No . 64
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., 1740 BroOOway,
New York 19, N. Y. I Pot'ITer Trans istor I page .
33 I CA No. 65

The purpose of COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION is to
be factual, useful, and understandable. Fo r
this purpose, the kind of advertising we desire
to publish is the kind that answers questions,
such as: What are your products? What are your
services? And for each product, Wh at i s i t
called? What does it do? Hmv well doe s i t
work? What are its main specifications? We
reserve the- right not to accept adverti sin g
that does not meet our standards.
is the index and a summary of advertisements. Each i tern contains: N arne and
address of the advertiser I subj ec t 0 f the
advertisement I page number where it appears I
CA number iq case of inquiry (see note below) •
FollOt~ing

Arma Division American Bosch Arma Corp., Roosevelt Field, Garden City, L. I., New York I
Engineering Opportuni ties I page 35 ICA No. 50
Automatic Electric Company, 1033 W. Van Buren
St., Chicago, Ill. I Circuits I page 49 I
CA No. 51
Bendix Aviation Corp., Research Lab. Div., Detroit 1, Mich. I Analog Computer Engineers I
page 7 I CA No. 52
Berke ley Enterprises, Inc., 36 West 11 St., Net'IT
York 11, N. Y. I Geniacs I page 47 I CA No.53
Cambridge Thermionic Corp., 447 Concord Ave.,
Cambridge 38, Mass. I Terminals I page 51 I
CA No .. 54
Computers and Automation, 36 West 11 St., New
York 11, N. Y. I Roster Entry Forms; B a c k
Copies; Advertising I pages 48,50,52 I
CA No. 55
Epsco, Inc., 588 Commonwealth Ave., Boston 15,
Mass. I Delay Lines I page 7 I CA No. ~6

READER'S INQUIRY
If you wish more information about any products
or services mentioned in one or more of these
advertisements, you may circle the appropriate
CA Nos. on the Reader's Inquiry Form below and
send that form to us (lV'e pay postage; see the
instructions). We shall then \forward your inquiries, and you will hear from the advertisers
direc t. If you do not wish to tear the magazine,
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RIGHT: extensive instrumentation is used to test tube electrical qualities
that closely affect operation in computer circuits. Zero-bias plate
current; cut-off performance; any difference in cut-off between twin- ...
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G-E Computer Tubes are specially tested for
qualities that safeguard computer reliability!
General Electric pioneered special tubes for
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above, which assure that G-E tubes in your
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The tests are specific in purpose. Each covers
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There is 110 substitute for G-E computer-tl}./Je
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