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| | IBM and the Seven Dwarfs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | BINAC was delivered late, it was over budget, it was sloppily constructed, and there is some debate as to whether it ever worked correctly at all. |
 | | (Trivia fact: Grace Murray Hopper, later a Navy Admiral and the author of the first compiler, was one of the lead programmers for BINAC.) |
 | | Ike Auerbach, longtime engineering colleague and member of the "executive committee" (such as it was) of EMCC, proposed that he and a few engineers go "off to one side" to build inexpensive BINAC-like machines to sell to universities, to generate capital so work on UNIVAC could continue. |
| www.cs.washington.edu /homes/gribble/classes/cs39c/Comp/dwarf.html (1936 words) |
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