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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 ...
UNIVAC was quickly picked up by the US Census Bureau in a $300,000 contract, which was followed by another deal via the National Bureau of Standards.
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 ...
UNIVAC also had an external magnetic tape memory, as well as magnetic tapes used in input and output. Users of UNIVAC played an important role in the development of programming languages. This model ...
The Univac I processor was the size of a 25- by 50-ft. room—technicians actually walked inside to work on it—and had more than 5,000 vacuum tubes.
1. “A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things.” — Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (pictured), the U.S. Navy’s oldest active-duty officer at ...
History Dept. The First Time America Freaked Out Over Automation. It was the late 1950s, and the problem was solved quickly. But the same strains beneath the surface still haunt us.
In the 1950s, the UNIVAC mainframe became synonymous with the term "computer." For a generation of TV watchers in the 1950s, UNIVAC was America's first computer. But a recent biography of one of ...