"In the months that followed, 'UNIVAC' gradually became the generic term for a computer." That's putting it mildly. By the late 1950s the UNIVAC and its cousin, the ENIAC, had inspired a generic ...

Advances in computer technology during the Second ... TIME explained the promise of the not-yet-released UNIVAC in Nov. 1950: Allen N. Scares, vice president and general manager of Remington ...

"People actually typed key punch cards, and then those cards were entered into a UNIVAC computer." The 1950 census was the first time the UNIVAC computer was used for a non-military project.

Remington Rand bought the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. in 1950 and sold the first Univac to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1951. The eight-ton, walk-in computer was the size of a one-car garage and ...

That event in 1952 helped usher in the computer age, but it wasn't exactly love at first sight. The 'Electronic Brain' CBS' Charles Collingwood was the reporter assigned to UNIVAC, one of the ...

IBM's involvement in the US Space program dates back prior to the 1950s, where a number ... be familiar with the trademark, UNIVAC was a household name for computers during the 1960s, much like ...

On November 4, 1952, CBS News used a Remington Rand UNIVAC computer for its presidential election night coverage. Although some predicted a close race between Republican Dwight Eisenhower and ...

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 ...