Société d'électronique et d'automatisme

The Société d'électronique et d'automatisme (SEA) was an early French computer manufacturer established in 1947 by electrical engineer François-Henri Raymond, which designed and put into operation a significant portion of the first computers in France during the 1950s. The SEA played a major role in driving the development of the French computer industry, training the first generation of engineers and installing about 170 computers between 1955 and its dissolution in 1966, when it merged with CII. == History and achievements == In 1947, François-Henri Raymond was sent for a technical trip to the United States where he met with Howard H. Aiken at Harvard University, visited the MIT laboratories and came across John von Neumann's report on the EDVAC and the pioneering concepts of a then futuristic machine: the stored-program computer.

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