My grandfather started Mauchly Associates with John Mauchly, he was Mauchly's "business guy" because he had experience in computers while working at Remington Rand on the Critical Path Method[1] in the 50s. My mom remembers John telling her about someday they're going to make computers that can fit in a briefcase while the smallest computers at the time were the UNIVAC. Not sure why you don't hear much about Mauchly Associates, it's not even on his Wikipedia page...
Great story, thanks. I wasn't aware that the Critical Path Method originated from DuPont and Remington Rand. Almost lost art today. When I proposed it in a government project twenty years ago here in Switzerland nobody seemed to have ever heard of it.
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My grandfather started Mauchly Associates with John Mauchly, he was Mauchly's "business guy" because he had experience in computers while working at Remington Rand on the Critical Path Method[1] in the 50s. My mom remembers John telling her about someday they're going to make computers that can fit in a briefcase while the smallest computers at the time were the UNIVAC. Not sure why you don't hear much about Mauchly Associates, it's not even on his Wikipedia page...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_path_method
Great story, thanks. I wasn't aware that the Critical Path Method originated from DuPont and Remington Rand. Almost lost art today. When I proposed it in a government project twenty years ago here in Switzerland nobody seemed to have ever heard of it.