Electronic Business Machines – A New Tool for Management. A Study of Developments in Electronic Business Machines and an Estimate of Their Present and Future Applications to Business
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- Boston: Harvard, 1953
Boston: Harvard, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. “A very early independent report . . . on the application of electronic computers to business needs." [OOC 438]
Submitted “in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the second-year course in Manufacturing at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.” “A very early independent report written by people outside the computer industry on the application of electronic computers to business needs. When this report was published, no electronic digital computer had been delivered to an American corporation . . . . The first large general-purpose computers such as ENIAC and EDVAC were originally developed for scientific and engineering applications; the report discusses the necessity of modifying both computers and business procedures to take advantage of the great computing power and speed offered by the new machines. Chapter VI, titled ‘Business machines in 1970,’ attempts to predict the future evolution of business machines ‘as they relate to manufacturing companies, department stores, insurance companies, banks and public utilities’ (p. 37).” [OOC 438]
"When this report was published, no electronic digital computer had been delivered to an American corporation (the first UNIVAC I delivered to a private rather than governmental customer was serial number 8, sold to General Electric in 1954)..." [OOC] From Gutenberg to the Internet 10.4; Origins of Cyberspace 428. Minimal shelf/edge wear, ex libris with light markings, entire binding protected by applied clear laminate, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed dark paper boards, black cloth spine, gilt lettering. 4to. 82pp. Bibliography.
Submitted “in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the second-year course in Manufacturing at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.” “A very early independent report written by people outside the computer industry on the application of electronic computers to business needs. When this report was published, no electronic digital computer had been delivered to an American corporation . . . . The first large general-purpose computers such as ENIAC and EDVAC were originally developed for scientific and engineering applications; the report discusses the necessity of modifying both computers and business procedures to take advantage of the great computing power and speed offered by the new machines. Chapter VI, titled ‘Business machines in 1970,’ attempts to predict the future evolution of business machines ‘as they relate to manufacturing companies, department stores, insurance companies, banks and public utilities’ (p. 37).” [OOC 438]
"When this report was published, no electronic digital computer had been delivered to an American corporation (the first UNIVAC I delivered to a private rather than governmental customer was serial number 8, sold to General Electric in 1954)..." [OOC] From Gutenberg to the Internet 10.4; Origins of Cyberspace 428. Minimal shelf/edge wear, ex libris with light markings, entire binding protected by applied clear laminate, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed dark paper boards, black cloth spine, gilt lettering. 4to. 82pp. Bibliography.