Seven tubes are marked: UNIVAC. Two are marked: Reming (/) Rand. Finally, two are marked RCA (/) RADIOTRON (/) ELECTRON (/) TUBE. According to the donor, he found the object in the town dump in ...

Grace Hopper was a computer scientist who is best known for helping to create the first all-electronic digital computer, called UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer). NASA's tracking stations for ...

UNIVAC I used 5,200 vacuum tubes, weighed 29,000 pounds (13 metric tons), consumed 125 kW, and could perform about 1,905 operations per second running on a 2.25 MHz clock. The Central ...

Exactly 65 years ago, on Mar. 31, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau signed a contract for the first commercial computer in the U.S. and thus entered a new era. When UNIVAC—the Universal Automatic ...

The UNIVAC was a "stored program" computer, one of the first. More than anything else, that made it different from the machines it was designed to replace.

UNIVAC, Running Apollo's Communications Network at Goddard and Beyond While IBM's mainframes were at the core of Mission Control, IBM was not the only computer company with a critical role in ...

Remington Rand's Univac computer was big and expensive. But it built its reputation quickly as a predictor of presidential elections. Photo: U.S. Army View Slideshow 1952: Television makes its ...

In 1952, a UNIVAC (universal automatic computer) I mainframe computer was used to predict the result of the US presidential election. After inventing the ENIAC and BINAC, J Presper Eckert and John ...

A lot of schools had UNIVAC 1100-series computers back in those days, so while you don’t hear as much about them as, say, IBM 360s, there are hordes of people who have used the 1100s, even if ...

Univac computer console and IBM equipment, October 1956. Lawrence Livermore accepted delivery of its first computer—a Univac—in 1952, the year of the Laboratory's founding.