In the 1950s, the UNIVAC mainframe became synonymous with the term "computer." For a generation of TV watchers in the 1950s, UNIVAC <i>was</i> America's first computer. But a recent biography of one ...

These pages are early versions of documentation for training programmers on a solid-state Univac computer known variously as the New Univac Computer, the UNIVAC Solid-State 80 (with an eighty-column ...

In 1954, GE Appliance Park in Louisville became the first private business in the U.S. to buy a UNIVAC I computer. The 30-ton computer, which was first used by the federal government, cost $1.2 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The UNIVAC II, the second commercial ...

In response to the June 15 Associated Press article discussing UNIVAC's 50th anniversary: I'm a very mature "data processing person" (a seldom-used term in the PC time frame; in fact, most current ...

The Franklin Life Insurance Co. had to tear out windows and walls to accommodate Springfield’s first computer. Then it had to hire a derrick to hoist the “electronic brain” five floors up. Franklin ...

In the early 1950s, Remington-Rand produced a short film promoting the use of its Univac computer for the office. Of course, Univac’s sheer size is what hits viewers used to notebook computers and ...

Like in flour and lumber milling, Minnesota companies once dominated the field of supercomputing. Firms like Univac, Control Data and Cray Research built some of the fastest computers in the world.

A taut election, a fraught vote count, a blown result call. It’s all so very now. But it also happened back in 1960 when the principals were John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, and the prognosticator ...

A taut election, a fraught vote count, a blown result call. It’s all so very now. But it also happened back in 1960 when the principals were John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, and the prognosticator ...