ENGINEERING RESEARCH ASSOCIATES. 8 ITEMS

i. Engineering Research Associates. A proposed electronic system for inventory control. Saint Paul, MN: Engineering Research Associates (Division of Remington Rand), 1953, mimeograph, maroon covers, marked "Restricted", (gift to Erwin Tomash from Thomas Wingate Wilder III (1923-2007), 1996), [T&W E12]ii. Engineering Research Associates. Report on the Microfilm Rapid Selector. Saint Paul, MN: Engineering Research Associates, 1949, yellow covers, [T&W E13]iii. Engineering Research Associates. High-speed computing devices. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1950, original cloth, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE FOUNDING PRESIDENT OF ERA JOHN PARKER (1900-1989) TO ERWIN TOMASH, [T&W E14; Origins of Cyberspace 584]iv. [another copy], OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF THOMAS WINGATE WILDER III (early Univac programmer at Livermore National Laboratory), by whom presented to Erwin Tomashv. Perry, David P. "Minimum access programming." [reprinted from:] Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation VI, No. 39, July, 1952. St. Paul, MN: Engineering Research Associates, 1952, original green wrappers, [T&W P48]vi. Remington Rand, Inc. Notes on the logic of the ERA 1103 Computer System. Saint Paul, MN: Remington Rand, 1953, wrappers, [T&W R70]vii. Welchman, W. Gordon (1906-1985). Proposal for an ERA development program. Arlington, VA: Engineering Research Associates, 1951, 4pp., Xerox, stapled, [T&W W24]viii. Engineering Research Associates. High-speed computing devices... new introduction by Arnold A. Cohen, facsimile reprint, Los Angeles: Tomash Publishers, 1983], cloth, [cf. T&W E14]8vo or 4to (8)

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A group of important texts emanating from the pioneering computer firm Engineering Research Associates (ERA), originally formed out of a group of demobilised World War II naval cryptographers. Initially famous for their numerical computers ERA were known latterly for their drum memory systems (the first work here is a proposal to supply a magnetic drum-based inventory control system to Wright Air Development Center). ERA was later purchased by Remington Rand and integrated into their UNIVAC department. The third work is THE FIRST GENUINE TEXTBOOK ON COMPUTING TECHNIQUES AND COMPUTER HARDWARE, and influenced computer developments across North America and the rest of the world.