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  1. Eckert, J. Presper, Jr. 19191995 Mauchly, John W. 19071980: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Computer Sciences</i> by James E. Tomayko, 2002
  2. Computer Designers: Alan Turing, John Von Neumann, Steve Wozniak, Seymour Cray, Konrad Zuse, J. Presper Eckert, John Mauchly, Butler Lampson
  3. J. Presper Eckert, Jr.: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i>
  4. Computer Hardware Engineers: Douglas Engelbart, Konrad Zuse, J. Presper Eckert, Martin Brennan, Chuck Peddle, Lynn Conway, Voja Antonic
  5. The history of computing: A biographical portrait of the visionaries who shaped the destiny of the computer industry by Marguerite Zientara, 1981
  6. John Presper Eckert Jr.: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i> by Nathan L. Ensmenger, 2001
  7. Early Pioneers: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Computer Sciences</i> by Pamela Willwerth Aue, 2002
  8. John William Mauchly: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i> by Nathan L. Ensmenger, 2001
  9. ENIAC Progress Report: An entry from Gale's <i>American Decades: Primary Sources</i>
  10. Early Computers: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Computer Sciences</i> by Ida M. Flynn, 2002

61. John Presper Eckert Biography / Biography Of John Presper Eckert Main Biography
Electrical engineer J. presper eckert (19191995)invented the first general-purposeelectronic digital computer, the ENIAC, with John William Mauchly.
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Name: John Presper Eckert Birth Date: April 9, 1919 Death Date: June 3, 1995 Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America Place of Death: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States of America Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: computer engineer John Presper Eckert Main Biography Electrical engineer J. Presper Eckert (1919-1995)invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, the ENIAC, with John William Mauchly. Further collaboration between the two engineers led to the development of the first commercial digital electronic computer, UNIVAC. Their combined efforts ushered in the commercial computer revolution that continues to change the world in profound ways. John Presper Eckert, Jr., was born on April 9, 1919, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John Presper Eckert and Ethel Hallowell Eckert. His father was a self-made millionaire businessman, whose business interests would strongly influence his son's future. Eckert was an only child, and spent much of his youth building radios and other mechanical and electronic gadgets. He wanted to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), but his mother did not want him to move so far away. To keep his son close to home, his father claimed that he could not afford to pay MIT's steep tuit.....

62. Computer History Mock Test Navigate Departments Pages In Computer
32 Why was Mauchley and J presper eckert’s invention (the ENIAC) important? a) J. presper eckert b) John Mauchley c) None of the above d) Alan Turing
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63. Computer: Looking.back
John Mauchly, J. presper eckert, and Herman Goldstine were charter John Mauchlyand J. presper eckert disputed this finding throughout their lives.
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Computer , Vol. 29, No. 2, February 1996 Visions and visionaries: Celebrating the history of computing February in computing history J.A.N. Lee,
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106, phone (540) 231-5780, fax (540) 231-6075, e-mail janlee@cs.vt.edu During World War II, a group of scientists led by Max Newman, a mathematician from Cambridge University, and including Alan Turing and several thousand others, attacked the German high command's coded messages to decrypt their contents and produce intelligence that became known as "Ultra." Working at Bletchley Park, England, these scientists achieved their goal, despite ever more complex encryption devices, by developing a series of computer-like machines culminating in an electronic marvel known as Colossus. The first prototype began operating in February 1944, and several additional machines were prepared in time for D-day in June 1944two years prior to the unveiling of ENIAC. Though their accomplishments were not revealed to the world until 1970, the scientists at Bletchley Park were able to use their knowledge in developing portions of the British computer industry. Today, a museum at Bletchley Park is reconstructing a Colossus. On February 14, 1946, the University of Pennsylvania unveiled the ENIAC, designed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly to compute firing tables for the Aberdeen Proving Ground. Though arguably not the first "computer," having been preceded by Konrad Zuse's Z-1 and Z-2 machines in Germany (1935-38), John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry's regenerative memory machine (1939), Howard Aiken's Harvard Mark I (a.k.a. ASCC, 1944), and Colossus in Great Britain, ENIAC was the first fully operational electronic, general-purpose machine. Though programming was essentially completed by rewiring, and the stored memory was not yet implemented, ENIAC was a parallel processor well ahead of its time.

64. UNIVAC FAQ
The UNIVAC was designed by J. presper eckert and John Mauchly. It was began inabout 1946 and completed in March 1951. The name UNIVAC was chosen in 1947.
http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/UNIVAC-FAQ.htm
The UNIVAC FAQ (UNIVAC Frequently Asked Questions This edition dated: October 2001 What does UNIVAC stand for? Universal Automatic Computer. Who created the UNIVAC? The UNIVAC was designed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. It was began in about 1946 and completed in March 1951. The name UNIVAC was chosen in 1947. What is so special about the UNIVAC? The UNIVAC was the first mass produced commercial business computer. This means it was the first computer that businesses could actually order and purchase, back in 1951. Prior to this, most computers built were "one of a kind" machines that were not mass-produced. In the case of the UNIVAC I, only 46 were made, but that was considered mass production for the time. How many UNIVACs were there? There were 46 UNIVAC model I computers built. They didn’t get the name UNIVAC I until later computers were built (such as the UNIVAC II, UNIVAC III, etc.). Many computers had the UNIVAC name, which was used up until about 1983. Who owned the UNIVAC company? The UNIVAC was built by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, from 1946 to 1951. They formed the "Electronic Control Company" in around 1946. They named their company the "Eckert Mauchly Computer Company ("EMCC") in 1947. Their company was purchased by Remington Rand in 1950. The EMCC became the UNIVAC Division of Remington Rand. Remington Rand advertised their name as "Remington Rand UNIVAC." In 1955, Sperry Corporation merged with Remington Rand to become Sperry Rand. They kept the name UNIVAC as the UNIVAC Division of Sperry Rand. Sperry merged with Burroughs in 1986 to form UNISYS.

65. UNISYS
J. presper eckert and John Mauchly were the designers and builders of the BINAC . J presper eckert, John Mauchly, John von Neumann, Herbert Goldstine and
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UNISYS EMCC, UNIVAC, SPERRY-RAND, BURROUGHS CONSOLIDATED CHRONOLOGY Having excellent business and factory skills, and seeing a potential new industry, the Remingtons bought the rights to Christopher Shole's early typewriter machine. The American Arithmometer Company marketed adding machines invented by William Seward Burroughs Remington was not only producing typewriters, it had bought out or merged with the following competitor companies: o Standard Typewriter Company o Yost Writing Machine Company o Monarch Typewriter Company o Densmore Typewriter Company, and o Smith Premier Typewriter Company. Elmer A. Sperry markets the Sperry Calculator, a circular slide-rule. The American Arithmometer Company officially becomes the Burroughs Adding Machine Company. American Arithmometer changes its name to Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Elmer A. Sperry, a brilliant inventor and businessman, founded "Sperry Gyroscope Company," makers of gyrocompasses and other directional finding devices. First Sperry gyrocompass tested in the U.S. in Delaware. Burroughs acquires Moon-Hopkins Billing Machine Company, maker of billing and bookkeeping machines.

66. Honeywell, Inc., Honeywell Vs. Sperry Rand Records
eckert, J. presper (John presper), 1919. Larson, Earl R. Bloch, Richard M.(Richard Milton eckert, J. presper, research notebook, 1946-1947 (folder 15)
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Honeywell, Inc., Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand Records, 1846-1973 (bulk: 1925-1973) CBI 1 By: Prepared by Bruce H. Bruemmer, March 1991; revised by Lynn Leitte, November 1999 Collection Size: 20.75 cubic ft. (52 boxes) Creator: Honeywell, Inc. Acquisition: The records were given to the Charles Babbage Institute by Honeywell, Inc., 1984. Access: Access to the collection is unrestricted. Preferred Citation: Honeywell, Inc., Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand Records (CBI 1), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Historical Note
The Honeywell-Sperry Rand suit grew out of the ENIAC patent, which covered basic patents relating to the design of electronic digital computers. After the patent was granted to the Sperry Rand Corporation in 1964, the corporation demanded royalties from all major participants in the computer industry. Honeywell refused to cooperate, so Sperry Rand then filed a patent infringement suit against Honeywell in 1967. Honeywell responded in the same year with an antitrust suit charging that the Sperry Rand-IBM cross-licensing agreement was a conspiracy to monopolize the computer industry, and also that the ENIAC patent was fraudulently procured and invalid. Honeywell filed suit against Sperry Rand and its subsidiary, Illinois Scientific Instruments, Inc., in U.S. District Court (Minnesota District, 4th Div., No. 4-67-Civ. 138). The ENIAC patents were filed in 1947 by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, arising from the work conducted at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.  In 1946, Eckert and Mauchly left the Moore School and formed their own commercial computer enterprise, the Electronic Control Company, which was later incorporated as the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. In 1950 Remington Rand acquired Eckert-Mauchly.  The rights to the ENIAC patent eventually passed to Sperry Rand as a result of a merger of the Sperry Corporation and Remington Rand in 1955.

67. ENIAC Trial Exhibits Master Collection,
a physics professor, and J. presper eckert, Jr., a graduate student. of the ENIAC and subsequent computers developed by J. presper eckert, Jr.,
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ENIAC Trial Exhibits Master Collection,
CBI 145 211 microfilm rolls Creator: various Processed by: The University of Pennsylvania Archives ACQUISITION: Collection consists of records donated to the Charles Babbage Institute by Honeywell, Inc. in 1984; materials gathered by Professor John G. Brainerd, who served as Dean of the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania from 1954-1970, and later donated to the University of Pennsylvania Archives; and defendant's exhibits assembled by the Sperry Corporation, now at the Hagley Museum and Library in Delaware. ACCESS: The collection is unrestricted. Please cite the collection as follows: ENIAC Trial Exhibits Master Collection (CBI 145), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
History
There are two epochs in the history of computing: before the completion of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (known as the ENIAC), and after. While there are several controversies about the development of the ENIAC and its immediate successors, there is nearly universal agreement on three points: the ENIAC was the watershed project which convinced the world that electronic computing was not merely possible, but practicable; it was a masterpiece of electrical engineering, unprecedented in reliability and computing speed; the two men most responsible for its conceptual and technical success were John Presper Eckert, Jr., and John William Mauchly, both of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering. The history of computing prior to the ENIAC was long and varied. The desire for a mechanical means of computation was ancient, and had prompted the invention of many devices, from the abacus to the adding machine. These developments culminated in the work of Charles Babbage, whose grandiose, fully mechanical designs had largely been forgotten by the turn of the 20th century, and of Herman Hollerith, whose electromechanical punched-card tabulators came to the rescue of the 1890 Federal Census. Notable later efforts included the creation of the differential or Bush analyzer. Though the Bush analyzer was able to perform many mathematical equations, it was still at its core a mechanical device with an electric drive and thus could not produce the greater precision and accuracy desired by scientists. It was partially in response to this slowdown in the advancement of electrical engineering technology that the ENIAC was developed.

68. Computer History Museum - Timeline
Floor space, 1000 square feet. Project leaders, John Mauchly and J. presper eckert . Project leaders, J. presper eckert and John Mauchly
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69. Histoire De L'Informatique : La Galerie De Portraits : E
Translate this page John presper eckert (avr 1919-jun 1995). John presper eckert. Cet ingénieur enélectronique, enseignant à la Moore School, a servi de conseiller puis
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La galerie de portraits
John Presper ECKERT (avr 1919-jun 1995) Cet ingénieur en électronique, enseignant à la Moore School, a servi de conseiller puis d'associé à J. MAUCHLY pour la construction de l' ENIAC . Lui et MAUCHLY, seront aussi à l'origine du BINAC puis de l' UNIVAC
Eckert John
Douglas ENGELBART (jan 1925-) Spécialiste des radars à l'US Navy, ce pionnier de l'interface homme-machine est l'inventeur de la souris en 1963.
Inventor Douglas Engelbart

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70. J. Presper Eckert - Dicionário Internet
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71. Subastan Documentos "clave" De La Historia De Internet Y La Informática
John presper eckert. John Mauchly J. presper eckert. John Mauchly (1907-1980) J.presper eckert (1919-1995). Noticias relacionadas
http://www.noticiasdot.com/publicaciones/2005/0205/0402/noticias040205/noticias0
La actualidad - Mundo Digital
Subastan documentos "clave" de la historia de Internet y la informática La firma de subastas Christie's planea poner a la venta a finales de febrero una valiosa colección de documentos que rastrean los orígenes de las primeras computadoras y de internet, informa EFE John Presper Eckert
Noticias relacionadas Esta colección, llamada: "Los orígenes del ciberespacio", incluye diarios científicos, cartas y otros documentos que, entre otras cosas, dan pistas sobre el desarrollo de la primera computadora programable, el primer software del que se tiene constancia, o sobre los orígenes de las telecomunicaciones. Una de las piezas más preciadas probablemente será un documento de J. Presper Eckert y John Mauchly s obre los orígenes de las computadoras que la casa de subastas estima vender en una cifra estimada entre 50.000 y 70.000 dólares. La copia original del manuscrito de ocho páginas, escrito en 1946, se considera el primer plan de negocios redactado específicamente para la industria informática por los creadores de BINAC , la primera computadora electrónica de operación útil producida en EEUU.

72. The ENIAC
Professor Weygand, Dr. John W. Mauchly, and Dr. J. presper eckert. Mauchly got together with Dr. J. presper eckert to draft the design of an
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/ENIAC.Richey.HTML
The ENIAC
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Kevin W. Richey
Introduction
World War II was a time of great technological advancement. Radar was invented to defend Great Britain from the bombers of the German Luftwaffe. Aviation was advanced by the jet engine. And no one will forget the climax of the war with the world's first glimpse of nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But none of these advancements were as significant to the twentieth century as the electronic digital computer. There are many stories about how the computer came into being, but the most exciting story is that of the ENIAC. It begins in 1938, the outbreak of World War II, and a large problem faced by the United States Army that was in dire need of a fast solution.
The Problem
As war erupted in Europe, the United States was recovering from the Great Depression and remained mostly isolated from the conflict. Society had turned inward, more concerned about domestic problems than international affairs. But as the war heated up, the possibility of U.S. involvement grew. The Army was unprepared for such a large scale conflict and began an effort to increase its firepower.
The Bush Differential Analyzer
In 1935, a mathematical computing device called the Bush Differential Analyzer had been installed at the Ballistic Research Laboratory to assist in solving scientific and engineering problems. It was a mechanical analogue machine invented in 1925 by Dr. Vannevar Bush of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A series of rotating shafts and wheels, powered by electric motors, ran problems through ten integration units to produce a solution.

73. COMPUTER PEOPLE
Artifacts and ephemera related to Dr. J. presper eckert, ENIAC and the early years Photograph of J. presper eckert, with John Mauchly and John Brainerd,
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/people.html
PEOPLE and PIONEERS The Winter 2000 issue of "Invention and Technology" included an interesting picture (above) and description of the 20 "greatest" innovators of the 20th century, including John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Robert Noyce, and Bill Gates. Listings of Pioneers: CNET has started a series of articles on "The Decade in Computing". The first collection is entitled " The Visionaries
Who are the Computer Architects?
by Mark Smotherland.
Computer Pioneers
by J.A.N. Lee.
Homebrew hobbyists who cooked up a revolution
Daily Telegraph (UK): Personal computer: 1975 - A handful of young enthusiasts in California changed the world when they formed a couple of companies called Microsoft and Apple Software Design and Management (Germany) Conference 2001 was on the Pioneers of Software. Held in Bonn on 28 and 29 June 2001, the program was filled with the "stars" of programming languages, software engineering, and structured programming. Their web site is a gemstone of videos and graphics worth visiting! Individual Pioneers: A Picture of Ada King (nee Byron), Countess of Lovelace

74. Computing Timeline
1944, USA, ENIAC project started, John W Mauchly, J presper eckert 1948, USA,Company formed, John Machly, J presper eckert, eckertMauchly Computer
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Year Country Innovation Person Company Detail UK Multiplication tool John Napier Napier's Bones are an aid to memory facilitating multiplication. They are... Germany First calculator Wilhelm Schickard The Calculating Clock is a 6 digit machine that can add and subtract? France Pascaline invented Blaise Pascal The Pascaline was a 5 digit machine that used a different carry machanism? UK First English calculator Samuel Morland Sir Samuel Morland produced a non-decimal adding machine? Stepped reckoner Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Leibniz designed his stepped reckoner with a moveable carriage? UK Multiplying calculator Charles, Earl of Stanhope Charles, third Earl of Stanhope produces a successful multiplying calculator that is similar to Leibnitz's. Germany Multiplying calculator Mathieus Hahn Mathieus Hahn also produces a successful multiplying calculator Concept of a difference engine J H Muller J H Muller first conceptualised the idea of a difference engine? France Punch cards Joseph-Marie Jacquard Joseph-Marie Jacquard ran a textile company and invented the first punch cards to operate looms? France Arithmometer - First mass produced calculator Charles de Colmar Charles de Colmar designed the Arithmometer to be the first mass produced calculator?

75. Professor Wallace J. Eckert
What contacts existed between Wallace eckert and presper eckert and John Mauchly? Wallace J. eckert Papers, Charles Babbage Institute, University of
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/eckert.html
Professor Wallace J. Eckert
First Automated Scientific Calculations First Scientifc Computing Lab First Computer Book Naval Observatory ... Apollo Missions
Photo: About 1930, Columbiana Archive. Wallace Eckert , 1902-1971. With graduate study at Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Yale, he received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1931 under Professor Ernest William Brown (1866-1938), who devoted his career to developing a theory of the motions of the moon. Best known for the lunar orbit calculations that guided the Apollo missions to the moon , Eckert was a Columbia University Astronomy Professor from 1926 to 1970, founder and Director of the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University (1937-40), Director of the US Naval Observatory Nautical Almanac Office (1940-45), and founder and Director of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University (1945-1966). First, foremost, and always an astronomer, Eckert drove and often oversaw the construction of increasingly powerful computing machines to solve problems in celestial mechanics, particularly to verifying, extending, and improving Brown's theory. He was one of the first to apply punched-card machines to the solution of complex scientific problems. Perhaps more significantly, he was the first to automate the process when

76. Programming The ENIAC
Mauchly and J. presper eckert (no relation to Columbia University s Wallaceeckert) Gutzwiller 90 says that presper eckert (among other wellknown
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/eniac.html
Programming the ENIAC
Built in 1943-45 at the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania for the War effort by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert (no relation to Columbia University's Wallace Eckert ) but not delivered to the Army until just after the end of the war, the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. It was 150 feet wide with 20 banks of flashing lights and about 300 times faster than the Mark 1 at addition. Wallace Eckert is cited in the histories as an influence on the designers, as he was for the Mark 1. These US Army photos from the archives of the ARL Technical Library show two early programmers (Gloria Gorden and Ester Gerston) at work on the ENIAC. The ENIAC was not a stored-program computer; it is "better described as a collection of electronic adding machines and other arithmetic units, which were originally controlled by a web of large electrical cables" (David Alan Grier, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing , Jul-Sep 2004, p.2). It was programmed by a combination of plugboard wiring (shown at the top) and three "portable function tables", shown above (

77. Looking At The Future With J. Atanasoff
Curiously, J. presper eckert, his remaining rival, died on June 3. But the storyis still not over, for a project is now underway at Iowa State s Ames
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Looking at the Future with John Atanasoff
Joel A. Snow
(Commentary aired on WOI Radio on July 14, 1995) The story of John Vincent Atanasoff has become an Iowa legenda legend that's still unfolding. The basic outlines of the tale are familiar. A bright young physics professor pursuing forefront research during the depths of the depression found the theoretical calculations extraordinarily tedious, using the desk top adding machines and calculators of the day. He became obsessed with the idea of automating such calculations using some combination of electrical and mechanical devices. After researching and pondering this problem to no avail, he hit upon a scheme for such an automatic computing device during a long wandering trip across the Iowa countryside, scribbled down his plan in an Illinois road house, and returned to Ames to embark on the construction of the first electronic digital computer. With help from a bright graduate student, and an expenditure of less that $1,000, an amount close to half of a young professor's salary in those depression years, the device was designed, redesigned, constructed, tested, and it worked. This achievement was little noted at the time, and after Atanasoff left Iowa State College for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1941, the machine was consigned to oblivion in the Physics Building on campus. For a long time there was also little likelihood that this achievement would be long remembered. The fundamental ideas were pirated away, used as building blocks in the design of subsequent computers during and after World War II, and machines based on Atanasoff's concepts now from part of the bedrock of today's information revolution. The initial credit for inventing the electronic computer went to the purported pirate, John W. Mauchly, who died in 1980, and to J. Presper Eckert, who used the ideas in a wartime device built for computing artillery trajectories, (called ENIAC), which led eventually to UNIVAC.

78. The Trial
He had also ruled that John Mauchly and J. presper eckert, who had for more thantwentyfive years been feted, trumpeted, and honored as the co-inventors of
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In late 1966 or early 1967, patent lawyer Charles G. Call was summoned to the office of senior partner D. Dennis Allegretti and asked him if he would be interested on taking a case which might take ten years of his time. Call, eager to demonstrate his talents, accepted. Allegretti explained that the client was the Honeywell Company of Minneapolis and the case involved a controversy with the Sperry Rand Corporation over what was called generally "the ENIAC PATENTS." Sperry Rand and its subsidiary corporation, Illinois Scientific Development, Incorporated, had purchased those patent rights from John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr. Call was somewhat familiar with the earlier litigation involving the ENIAC patents, for that patent challenge had been brought and fought by Bell Telephone Laboratories against Sperry Rand at a time when Call was employed by Bell. U.S. District Judge Archie Dawson had upheld the validity of Sperry Rand's ENIAC patents in his 1962 decision on grounds that Bell Telephone Laboratories had failed to produce sufficient evidence of "prior public use" of ENIAC ideas. It would be an uphill battle for Honeywell to get another court to take any action that would upset Judge Dawson's decision, and Call and Allegretti recognized that point. Allegretti said Honeywell's lawyers had some new evidence that was related to the ENIAC patents and also some antitrust theories for attacking Sperry Rand under the Sherman Act and Clayton Act. It was a tremendous challenge in the face of Judge Dawson's decision for Sperry Rand, but Honeywell lawyers had assured Allegretti that there would be virtually no limitation on the expenditures they could make in following leads that might unearth facts or law to break the ENIAC patents.

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