SHORELINE — In its heyday, Shoreline Univac was feared. Its football teams won Seattle city championships and some of its players went on to college or NFL careers. The once great Shoreline-based ...
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 ...
The UNIVAC 1 was the first-ever commercial computer, first shipped in 1951 by New York-based Remington Rand, also inventor of the electric razor. The UNIVAC 1 was monstrous by today’s standards. Its ...
Go to updated and illustrated post. __1952: __Television makes its first foray into predicting a presidential election based on computer analysis of early returns. The Univac computer makes an ...
Computer memories were once far more exotic than today’s neat, tiny rows of chips. There was, for example, the principle internal storage system for the Univac 1 which consisted of tubes of mercury 22 ...