BINAC

This article is about the early electronic computer. For the town in Kosovo, see Binač.

BINAC (Binary Automatic Computer) is an early electronic computer that was designed for Northrop Aircraft Company by the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC) in 1949.[1][2] Eckert and Mauchly had started the design of EDVAC at the University of Pennsylvania, but chose to leave and start EMCC, the first computer company. BINAC was their first product, the first stored-program computer in the United States; BINAC is also sometimes claimed to be the world's first commercial digital computer[3] even though it was limited in scope and never fully functional after delivery.

  1. ^ "9. The Binac". Digital Computer Newsletter. 1 (2): 4. 1949-09-01. Archived from the original on July 10, 2020.
  2. ^ "Automatic Computing Machinery: News - Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation". Mathematics of Computation. 4 (29): 48–49. January 1950. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-50-99480-4. ISSN 0025-5718.
  3. ^ Stern, Nancy (July 1979). "The BINAC:A case study in the history of technology". Annals of the History of Computing. 1 (1). Arlington, VA: American Federation of Information Processing Societies: 9–20. doi:10.1109/mahc.1979.10005. ISSN 1058-6180. S2CID 11687205.