Collation Methods For The UNIVAC System, Volume I and Volume II
date: label: date made
content: 1950-12-08
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content: Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation
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content: This light green faded binder contains two"volumes" of a document entitled "Collation Methods for the UNIVAC System." According to the introduction "it is the purpose of this report to determine the collation method of sorting as it has been adopted by the UNIVAC system." According to the "definitions of computer terms" given in the document, collation is "The method of sorting whereby increasingly larger strings of items are sequenced according to the magniture of the entire group of key digits in each item."
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content: According to the acknowledgments on p. ii of the document, "The basic methods were conceived and developed by Frances E. Snyder and Jean J. Bartik. The preparation of the entire report was under the immediate supervision of Miss Snyder." Several others who contributed are listed. The acknowledgments were written by Herbert F. Mitchell, Jr., of the Computational Analysis Laboratory at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corpration.. According to the label on the cover of the document, this is the: THIRD AND FINAL (/) COLLATION REPORT (/) RELEASE.
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Sperry-Univac
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 1974.312206.03
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content: 312206.03
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content: 312206
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content: Documentation
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content: overall: 3 cm x 23 cm x 29.2 cm; 1 3/16 in x 9 1/16 in x 11 1/2 in