Artifact Details

Title

BINAC and UNIVAC Pennsylvania Historic Marker, Dedication Ceremony and Interviews

Catalog Number

102695203

Type

Moving image

Description

From the historic marker text: "BINAC, the world's first commercial, electronic, stored program, digital computer passed verification tests here, at 3747 Ridge Ave., on April 7, 1949. Customer acceptance of UNIVAC I, the world's first open market, commercial computer, followed on March 30, 1951. J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly, co-inventors of ENIAC, led the development of both of these pioneering machines, which launched the commercial computer age.

Date

2006

Publisher

Explorations Unlimited, LLC

Place of Publication

PA, US

Format

Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Credit

Gift of John Toole

Lot Number

X4719.2008