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Sperry Rand was a manufacturer of computers, formed by the merger of [[Remington Rand]] (and in particular its [[Remington Rand Univac]] division) with Sperry Gyroscope. Sperry provided coherent management that Remington Rand badly needed.

It is perhaps best known as one party in the most famous patent case involving computers: ''Honeywell, Inc. v. Sperry Rand Corp., et al.'' [[Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation]] had obtained a very broad patent - too broad, in retrospect - on much computer work, as a result of the work of [[John Mauchly]] and [[J. Presper Eckert]] on the [[ENIAC]]. The patent was issued in 1964, after EMCC had become part of Sperry Rand, via Remington Rand; Sperry used the patent to try and claim fees from several computer manufacturers, including [[Honeywell]]. The latter contested the patent, and after a long trial, the patent was disallowed, on the grounds that some of what it claimed had actually been invented by [[John Atanasoff]]. This led to a [[Atanasoff-Mauchly controversy|lengthy controversy]] over the importance of Atanasoff's work.

Sperry Rand was bought by [[Burroughs]] in 1986, with the two being merged into [[Unisys]].

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==Further reading==

* [https://exhibits.stanford.edu/feigenbaum/catalog/wv368zr4169 ''A History Of Sperry Rand Corporation''], Sperry Rand, 1967 

==External links==

* [https://vipclubmn.org/ VIP Club - Information Technology (IT) Pioneers] - contains a wealth of Sperry-related content
** [https://vipclubmn.org/Articles/SperryCorpHistory.pdf A Brief History of Sperry Corporation]

[[Category: Manufacturers]]

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−	Sperry Rand was a manufacturer of computers, formed by the merger of [[Remington Rand]] (and in particular its [[Remington Rand Univac]] division) with Sperry Gyroscope. Sperry provided coherent management that Remington Rand badly needed.	+	Sperry Rand was a manufacturer of computers, formed by the merger of [[Remington Rand]] (and in particular its [[Remington Rand Univac]] division) with [[Sperry Gyroscope]]. Sperry provided coherent management that Remington Rand badly needed.

	It is perhaps best known as one party in the most famous patent case involving computers: ''Honeywell, Inc. v. Sperry Rand Corp., et al.'' [[Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation]] had obtained a very broad patent - too broad, in retrospect - on much computer work, as a result of the work of [[John Mauchly]] and [[J. Presper Eckert]] on the [[ENIAC]]. The patent was issued in 1964, after EMCC had become part of Sperry Rand, via Remington Rand; Sperry used the patent to try and claim fees from several computer manufacturers, including [[Honeywell]]. The latter contested the patent, and after a long trial, the patent was disallowed, on the grounds that some of what it claimed had actually been invented by [[John Atanasoff]]. This led to a [[Atanasoff-Mauchly controversy\|lengthy controversy]] over the importance of Atanasoff's work.		It is perhaps best known as one party in the most famous patent case involving computers: ''Honeywell, Inc. v. Sperry Rand Corp., et al.'' [[Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation]] had obtained a very broad patent - too broad, in retrospect - on much computer work, as a result of the work of [[John Mauchly]] and [[J. Presper Eckert]] on the [[ENIAC]]. The patent was issued in 1964, after EMCC had become part of Sperry Rand, via Remington Rand; Sperry used the patent to try and claim fees from several computer manufacturers, including [[Honeywell]]. The latter contested the patent, and after a long trial, the patent was disallowed, on the grounds that some of what it claimed had actually been invented by [[John Atanasoff]]. This led to a [[Atanasoff-Mauchly controversy\|lengthy controversy]] over the importance of Atanasoff's work.

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	* [https://exhibits.stanford.edu/feigenbaum/catalog/wv368zr4169 ''A History Of Sperry Rand Corporation''], Sperry Rand, 1967 <!-- https://archive.org/details/STANFORDUAHistoryOfSperryRandCorporation2005/page/n1/mode/1up -->		* [https://exhibits.stanford.edu/feigenbaum/catalog/wv368zr4169 ''A History Of Sperry Rand Corporation''], Sperry Rand, 1967 <!-- https://archive.org/details/STANFORDUAHistoryOfSperryRandCorporation2005/page/n1/mode/1up -->
		+	* George T. Gray, Ronald Q. Smith, ''Unisys Computers: An Introductory History'', 2008 - much Sperry Rand content

	==External links==		==External links==

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 * [https://vipclubmn.org/ VIP Club - Information Technology (IT) Pioneers] - contains a wealth of Sperry-related content
 ** [https://vipclubmn.org/Articles/SperryCorpHistory.pdf A Brief History of Sperry Corporation]
 [[Category: Manufacturers]]