<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Paul,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Burt Grad described the creation of GE’s first applications for the UNIVAC I in this article:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">The First Commercial Computer Application at General Electric</div><div class="">By: Burton Grad, December 2006</div><div class=""><a href="http://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_First_Commercial_Computer_Application_at_General_Electric" class="">http://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_First_Commercial_Computer_Application_at_General_Electric</a></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">He said a large team was assigned the task of writing a payroll system for the Washer and Dryer Department, while he was assigned the task of writing a manufacturing control system for the Dishwasher and Disposer Department. It took him about six months, and his programs "operational long before the payroll system was completed.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m not sure exactly what manufacturing control referred to, but I suspect it involved scheduling and tracking the movement of parts and subassemblies, but not actually performing real-time control of any machinery.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul McJones</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 15, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Ceruzzi, Paul <<a href="mailto:CeruzziP@si.edu" class="">CeruzziP@si.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class="">... When GE installed one of the first commercial UNIVACs at their Louisville, KY appliance plant, they were concerned with the topic of automation eliminating jobs and its possible bad publicity. ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class="">All that from the installation of a vacuum-tube computer with very primitive, by modern standards, computing power. A further irony is that the UNIVAC, as far as I could tell, did not have anything to do with automating production on the factory floor.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>