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Unisys History Newsletter:

Researching Television News in the Era Before Videotape: Election-Night Forecasting, 1952 Ira Chinoy Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland. Unisys History Newsletter:

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  1. Researching Television News in the Era Before Videotape:Election-Night Forecasting, 1952Ira ChinoyPhilip Merrill College of JournalismUniversity of Maryland

  2. Unisys History Newsletter: “… Jack Gould, the television writer for The New York Times, was not impressed with either the UNIVAC or the much smaller Monrobot computer used by the NBC network: ‘Both gadgets were more of a nuisance than a help...’ "

  3. NBC Trade Releases, 1952 Library of American Broadcasting, College Park, MD

  4. CBS Press Releases, 1952 CBS Audience Services, NY

  5. Keynote, Monroe Calculating Machine Co Monroe Systems for Business, Levittown, PA

  6. Networks and computer makers team up, with ads making bold claims about computers and their upcoming election-night roles. Database: ProQuest Historical Newspapers

  7. Microfilm: Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville, FL

  8. Sperry-UNIVAC Company Records Computer History Records National Museum of American History, Washington, DC Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE

  9. Letters from Viewers … to settle a bet about the candidate whom UNIVAC predicted to win Walter Cronkite Papers, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin … asking for more information about the Monrobot Morgan Beatty Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie

  10. NBC Television Master Books Recorded Sound Reference Center, Library of Congress

  11. Scripts and transcripts: Charles Collingwood Papers Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI

  12. Logs: NBC Program Analysis Cards NBC News Archives, NY

  13. CBS NBC ABC

  14. UNIVAC on CBS 1952 Election-night footage Monrobot on NBC Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA CBS News Archives, NY Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia, Athens Paley Center For Media, NY NBC News Archives, NY

  15. Johns Hopkins Science Review, WAAM, Baltimore, October 1952 Source: Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

  16. Newsreel Outtakes National Archives II, College Park, MD

  17. Participants, Observers, Families

  18. Ira ChinoyPhilip Merrill College of JournalismUniversity of Marylandhttp://bit.ly/Ira_Chinoy http://bit.ly/chinoy_dissertation

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