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Cyber history for sale
In the spring of 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Maunchly sent out a business plan for a
company that 0 WOULD sell electronic computers”. In their eight-page proposal for (1)
financing of this enterprise, sent to a small group of prospective backers, the two engineers
predicted that the market for (2) epe maclishe might consist (3) ... scientific laboratories,
universities and government agencies. Such (4) ... the beginnings of the Electronic Control
Company of Philadelphia, which produced Univac, the first computer (5) ... be commercially
sold in the United States
Recently, Christie's in New York auctioned the original typescript of the Eckert-Maunchly
proposal (6) ... $72,000 to a private buyer. It was sold (7) ... part of a collection called "The
Origins of Cyberspace”, which contained about 1,000 books, papers, brochures and (8) ...
artefacts from the history of computing.
'It's becoming the new frontier in scientific collecting”, said Thomas Lecky, who (9) ...
charge of the auction. Mr Lecky said two items (10) ... particular had generated interest
among prospective bidders. (11) ... were the Eckert-Maunchly business plan and a technical
journal containing the idea for TCP/IP, the standard system for the transmission of
information over the Internet. (12) ... someone approached him 10 years ago with the May
1974 issue of the engineering journal in (13) ... the TCP/IP paper appeared, he would have
thought that it would have been absolutely (14) ... interest to anyone. 'You don't really know
when history is (15) ... made,' he said.
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