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The first computing start-up was the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, founded by American researchers J Presper Eckert and John Mauchly (both USA) on 8 December 1947.
J Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, after leaving the academic environment of The Moore School of Engineering to start their own computer business, found their first client was the United States Census Bureau.
John Mauchly. John William Mauchly (/ ˈmɔːkli / MAWK-lee; August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.
After the WWII and creation of ENIAC, IBM had offered Eckert a job and his own lab for developing computers, but Mauchly talked him into jointly starting a new company—Electronic Control Company. Their first work, in 1946 and 1947, was with the National Bureau of Standards and the Census Bureau.
In 1947 Eckert and Mauchly formed their own company, Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, to tackle the problem commercially. They first designed BINAC (Binary Automatic Computer), a smaller and faster machine that used magnetic tape; only one machine was ever built.
The Eckert�Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC) (March 1946 � 1950) was founded by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, and was incorporated on December 22, 1947. After building the ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania, Eckert and Mauchly formed EMCC to build new computer designs for commercial and military applications.
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J. Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly. Eckert and Mauchly were given the Philadelphia Award for developing the ENIAC, the world’s first “large-scale general-purpose electronic computer.”. Their story begins in 1941 at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering.
