Sperry-Rand

In Sperry-Rand Corp. vs. Rothlein (II), Rothlein felt he did not get a fair break on promotions and decided to leave Sperry-Rand and start his own competitive semiconductor company. He picked up 21 of 35 employees from Sperry-Rand for the new company. Sperry-Rand was held entitled to damages. The length of the proceedings, about five and one-half years, did much to make an injunction futile. The fact that the ex-employees developed the process gave them no greater right to use it competitively than any other employee. 

In Sperry-Rand Corp (12) vs. Electronics Concepts, Inc., et al. the ex-employees had taken valuable data on radar antennas. One had learned what he knew at Sperry-Rand and went into competition with Sperry-Rand—even competing on a government bid with stolen knowledge of the exact amount of the Sperry-Rand bid. Both damages and an injunction were awarded to Sperry. These ex-employees willfully and deliberately and with full knowledge of the unlawfulness of their acts took both technical and financial data. 

Sperry-Rand Corp. vs. Electronics Concepts, Inc. et al., 325 F.Supp. 1209... 

UNIVAC, Division of Sperry Rand Corp, Philadelphia, Pa 19116... 

In 1963 IBM s computer revenues stood at 1.2 billion, with Sperry Rand in a distant second place with revenues of f45 million. IBM s revenues were more than twice those of the rest of the U.S. industry combined. IBM s dominance rested, of course, on its three decades of perfecting its product development, production, marketing, and distribution learning base. 

N.A. "New Holland Round Balers", Commercial Brochures, Sperry New Holland, a division of Sperry Rand Corporation, New Holland, Penn. 

After the war the ENIAC group dispersed in November of 1945 von Neumann was named Director of an Electronic Computer Project at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. The purpose of this project in the words of its Director was to develop and construct a fully automatic, digital, all-purpose electronic calculating machine... which if intelligently used, will completely revolutionize our computing techniques, or to formulate it more broadly, the field of approximation mathematics (/5). Following the ENIAC dedication the next February, Goldstine and Burks joined the IAS Project. Eckert and Mauchly subsequently left the Moore School to establish their own company, the Electronic Control Company, which later became the Eckert Mauchly Computer Corporation and, ultimately, the UNIVAC division of Sperry Rand. 

A typical mainframe introduced in 1970 is the 32-bit International Business Machines IBM System/370 (continuation of the 1960s System/360), or the 1972 36-bit Univac 1110 (continuation of the 1962 Sperry Rand UNIVAC 1107, an... 

United Aircraft Research Laboratories, East Hartford, CT 06108. t Sperry Rand Research Center, Sudbury, MA 01776. 

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