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Lot 92
Sale 5524 - Fine Books & Ephemera
Jan 22, 2004
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$100 -
200
Price Realized
$90
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1 piece. 1 piece.
(UNIVAC Promotional Piece.) Sperry Rand Corporation. "Decision." (ca. 1967). 12 x 8 inches, pictorial printed bds., opening into pictorial gatefold & 4 panels with mounted pamphlets, textile & metal elements, presenting the Inca's "quipu" [knotted textile] method of compiling & analyzing complex census data as a model for the functioning of the UNIVAC computer.
This early commercial computer promotional piece was presented to select leaders of American industry. This copy was given to the consignor by the computer pioneer J. Presper Eckert, his signature on the piece is in a secretarial hand.
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