Editing BINAC (section)

==Customer acceptance==
Northrop accepted delivery<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Adams|first1=C. W.|last2=Israel|first2=D. R.|date=1950-04-06|others=John W. Mauchly|title=Applications of BINAC|journal=Conference on Automatic Computing Machinery, Rutgers University, March 28–29, 1950|language=en|pages=7|hdl=1721.3/38941}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-f7NIGeIU2EC&q=%22binac%22+poisson+equations&pg=PA183|title=Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946-1957|last=Norberg|first=Arthur Lawrence|date=2005|publisher=MIT Press|others=Poisson equations test results|isbn=9780262140904|pages=183|language=en}}</ref> of BINAC in September 1949. Northrop employees said that BINAC never worked properly after it was delivered, although it had worked at the Eckert-Mauchly workshop. It was able to run some small programs but did not work well enough to be used as a production machine. Northrop attributed the failures to it not being properly packed for shipping when Northrop picked it up; EMCC said that the problems were due to errors in re-assembly of the machine after shipping. Northrop, citing security considerations, refused to allow EMCC technicians near the machine after shipping, instead hiring a newly graduated engineering student to re-assemble it. EMCC said that the fact that it worked at all after this was testimony to the engineering quality of the machine.