"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 ...

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 ...

The Univac during the 1950s The company that invented the first commercial computer apologized on the eve of its 50th anniversary for any "unintended consequences" of its use. Unisys Corporation ...

"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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...