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A UNIVAC I at the United States Census Bureau in 1951 UNIVAC I operator's console UNIVAC I at Franklin Life Insurance Company. The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer design for business application produced in the United States.
Unlike the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II, it was a binary machine as well as maintaining support for all UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II decimal and alphanumeric data formats for backward compatibility. This was the last of the original UNIVAC machines. The UNIVAC 418 (aka 1219), first shipped in 1962, was an 18-bit word core memory machine. Over the three ...
This is a list of UNIVAC products. It ends in 1986, the year that Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys as a result of a hostile takeover bid [ 1 ] launched by Burrough's CEO W. Michael Blumenthal.
John William Mauchly (/ ˈ m ɔː k l i / MAWK-lee; August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.
UNIVAC II: 1958 An improved, fully compatible version of the UNIVAC I. UNIVAC 1105: 1958 3: A follow-up to the UNIVAC 1103 scientific computer. AN/FSQ-7: 1958 52: Largest vacuum tube computer ever built. 52 were built for U.S Project SAGE. ZEBRA: 1958 55: Designed in Holland and built by Britain's Standard Telephones and Cables. [17] Burroughs ...
EDSAC was designed specifically to form part of the Mathematical Laboratory's support service for calculation. [22] Ronald Fisher , in collaboration with Wilkes and Wheeler, used EDSAC to solve a differential equation relating to gene frequencies; this represented the first application of a computer to research in biology .
The UNISERVO tape drive was the primary I/O device on the UNIVAC I computer. It was the first tape drive for a commercially sold computer. The UNISERVO used metal tape: a 1 ⁄ 2-inch-wide (13 mm) thin strip of nickel-plated phosphor bronze (called Vicalloy) 1200 feet long. These metal tapes and reels were very heavy with a combined weight of ...
Ferranti Mark 1; History of IBM#1946–1959: Postwar; IBM 700/7000 series; Bull Gamma 3, one of the main competitors to the IBM 650; LEO (computer) List of vacuum-tube computers; Short Code; UNIVAC I; UNIVAC Solid State announced by Sperry Rand in December 1958 as a response to the IBM 650. In June 1959, Remington Rand announced that it had ...