The First Commercial Computer Application at General Electric
Burt Grad describes his experience designing and programming a manufacturing control system in 1954 for the Dishwasher and Disposer Department of General Electric’s Appliance Park Plant in Louisville, Kentucky. He talks about why GE bought a Univac I computer and the difficulties of programming and debugging this earliest commercial computer. The manufacturing control application was probably the first commercial program to run on an American corporate computer.
Item Details
- Date
- 06-2016 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 500001029
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- Burt Grad (Author)
- Format
- Credit line
- Software Industry Special Interest Group
- Extent
- 6 p.
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- R0364.2017
- Subject
- IBM 702 (Computer), UNIVAC I, General Electric (GE)