John W. Mauchly
ABSTRACT
Electronic computers save money. That is the basic economic fact behind all of the current activity in the designing and building of information-processing systems. The job of the engineering designer is economic as well as technical. He must balance many factors as well as he knows how in order to achieve maximum utility at minimum cost.
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