In 1967 Honeywell sued Sperry Rand in an attempt to break their ENIAC patents, arguing the ABC constituted prior art.

The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota released its judgement on October 19, 1973, finding in Honeywell v. Sperry Rand that the ENIAC patent was a derivative of John Atanasoff's invention.

* Honeywell v. Sperry Rand Records, 1846-1973, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

The six computer manufacturers were Burroughs Corporation, IBM, Minneapolis-Honeywell ( Honeywell Labs ), RCA, Sperry Rand, and Sylvania Electric Products.

The ABC was largely forgotten until it became the focus of the lawsuit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, the ruling of which invalidated the ENIAC patent ( and several others ) as, among many reasons, having been anticipated by Atanasoff's work.

RCA was one of several major computer companies ( see also: Computing ) that also included IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Burroughs, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR and Sperry Rand through most of the 1960s.

Sperry Rand officially took over the RCA base in January 1972.

* November 11 – Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to form Unisys, becoming the second largest computer company.

Rand soon merged with Sperry Corporation to become Sperry Rand.

Groves went on to become a vice-president at Sperry Rand.

Groves went on to become a vice president at Sperry Rand, an equipment and electronics firm.

He retired from Sperry Rand in 1961.

For a variety of reasons ( including Mauchly's June 1941 examination of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, prototyped in 1939 by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry ), US patent 3, 120, 606 for ENIAC, granted in 1964, was voided by the 1973 decision of the landmark federal court case Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, putting the invention of the electronic digital computer in the public domain and providing legal recognition to Atanasoff as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer.

However, in 1955 Remington merged with Sperry Corporation to become Sperry Rand.

Atansoff invented the first digital computer in the world during the 1930s in the Iowa State College, but it took a lengthy court battle for achieving legal patent to 1973 when the case of Honeywell v. Sperry Rand was solved and the verdict named Atansoff with the title the inventor of the computer, the decision was never appealed, thus giving him the legal right to be called as such in the United States.

: For a more detailed account, see Honeywell v. Sperry Rand.

Between 1954 and 1973, Atanasoff was a witness in the legal actions brought by various parties to invalidate electronic computing patents issued to John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, which were owned by computer manufacturer Sperry Rand.

In the 1973 decision of Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, a federal judge named Atanasoff the inventor of the electronic digital computer.

Atanasoff agreed to assist the attorney, but IBM ultimately entered a patent-sharing agreement with Sperry Rand, the owners of the Eckert-Mauchly memory patent, and the case was dropped.

Atanasoff was deposed and testified at trial in the later action Honeywell v. Sperry Rand.

In September 1986, Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys.

CBI's Burroughs Corporation Records includes over 100, 000 photographs depicting the entire visual history of Burroughs from its origin as the American Arithmometer Corporation in 1886 to its merger with the Sperry Corporation to form the Unisys Corporation in 1986.

* 1983 — Sperry Corporation Martyn Richard Jones defines the Sperry Information Center approach, which while not being a true DW in the Inmon sense, did contain many of the characteristics of DW structures and process as defined previously by Inmon, and later by Devlin.

Shrinking demand and tough competition started a shakeout in the market in the early 1970s — RCA sold out to UNIVAC and GE also left ; in the 1980s Honeywell was bought out by Bull ; UNIVAC became a division of Sperry, which later merged with Burroughs to form Unisys Corporation in 1986.

He was a founder of the American Arithmometer Company ( 1886 ), which later became the Burroughs Adding Machine Company ( 1904 ), then the Burroughs Corporation ( 1953 ) and in 1986, merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys.

Most of the underwriters throughout the show's tenure included: Martin Marietta, Lockheed ( soon to merge long after stopping their share of funding ), Prudential Securities ( and its precursor, Prudential-Bache Securities ), Primerica Financial Services, Hilton Hotels Corporation ( and its subsidiary, Conrad International Hotels ), Sperry Corporation, CSX, Enron Corporation, Enron Foundation, Hanson Trust, Unisys, Travelers Insurance, Ameritech ( before the big switch to SBC, which merged AT & T ), MFS Investment Management, Oppenheimer Funds, A. G. Edwards, The Kaufmann Fund, Deloitte and Touche, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and all local PBS affiliates and their viewers / contributors.

They were also known as the CEMCorp ICON, Burroughs ICON, and finally Unisys ICON when Burroughs and Sperry Corporation merged to form Unisys in 1986.

National Semiconductor was founded in Danbury, Connecticut by Dr. Bernard J Rothlein on May 27, 1959, when he and seven colleagues had left their employment at the semiconductor division of Sperry Rand Corporation.

Since the Sperry " big company " mentality encroached on the decision-making powers of the ERA founders, they left Sperry to form the Control Data Corp. in 1957, setting up shop in an old warehouse across the river from Sperry's St. Paul laboratory, in Minneapolis at 501 Park Avenue.

In their early decades, Sperry Gyroscope and related companies were concentrated on Long Island, New York, especially in Nassau County.

In the 1970s, Sperry Corporation was an old-school conglomerate headquartered in the Sperry Rand Building at 1290 Avenue of Americas in Manhattan, selling typewriters ( Sperry Remington ), office equipment, electronic digital computers for business and the military ( Sperry Univac ), farm equipment ( Sperry New Holland ), avionics ( e. g. gyroscopes, radars, Air Route Traffic Control equipment ) ( Sperry Vickers / Sperry Flight Systems ), and consumer products ( electric razors ) ( Sperry Remington.

) In addition, Sperry Systems Management ( headquartered near New York City with an office at Long Island MacArthur Airport ) did a fair amount of government defense contracting.

Certain internal divisions of Sperry such as Sperry New Holland and Sperry Marine were sold off after the merger.

The site of the Bracknell factory and development centre ( later sold to British Aerospace ) is commemorated by a 4. 5 metre aluminium sculpture by Philip Bentham, Sperry ’ s New Symbolic Gyroscope ( 1967 ).

Around 1975, to assist " corporate identity " the name was changed to Sperry Univac, along with Sperry Remington, Sperry New Holland, etc.

Prior to the construction of the current complex, the UN was headquartered at a temporary location at the Sperry Gyroscope Corporation's offices in Lake Success, New York, an eastern suburb of the city in Nassau County on Long Island, from 1946 – 1952.

Sperry was born at Cincinnatus, New York, United States of America.

In 1910 he started the Sperry Gyroscope Company in Brooklyn, New York ; his first compass was tested that same year in.

* Obituary, New York Times, Elmer Sperry Dies ; Famous Inventor, June 17, 1930

His first job was at the New York State Conservation Department, studying the stomach contents of game birds, but in July 1942 he joined the US Army ( as a private ) and was sent to Lowry Air Force Base to study the Sperry bombsight.

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* Sperry Gyroscope in Brooklyn, New York