By Jack Bender
The Darien News-ReviewDarien News-Review
Thursday, April 9, 1998
Copyright © 1998 The Hour Newspapers
Reprinted by Permission
A few years ago, not many people were aware of Rowayton’s association with the creation of the business computer.
Some Rowayton old timers remembered that Jim Rand’s company had bought the big Farrell mansion after the war and he’d brought in […]

These notes are to document what happened at 33 Highland Avenue, the current location of Rowayton’s Community Center and Library. The notes are a “work-in-progress” and we welcome comment.
Contact: Erik Rambusch, rambusch@sprynet.com
From 1943 until 1964 “the Barn” [actually a group of buildings] was used as a site for research by the Remington Rand Corporation.
In […]

By BILL RYAN
The New York Times
Sunday, March 29, 1998Copyright © 1998 The New York Times Co.
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In 1948, 20-year-old William B. Werming of Stamford, fresh out of a two-year technical college in New York City, was looking for a job. An acquaintance suggested he try Remington Rand.
“I had never even heard of […]

By W. B. Wenning
James Rand, Chairman and President of Remington Rand, was approached by Loring P. Crosman in 1943 with a plan to build an electronic computer. Remington Rand was known in the business world for its 90-column punch card Tabulating line of equipment.
Crosman’s credentials were rather significant: Twenty years with Monroe Calculating Company, […]

By FRANCIS X. FAY

Engineers responsible for developing three of the most economically efficient business computers of their time reminisced for six hours recently at the Rowayton Community Center where it all began.
Eight men, who labored on the Remington Rand 409 created in 1951, the first computer designed specifically for business applications, the Univac 60/120 […]