UNIVAC
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UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation. After capturing the public imagination with the use of the UNIVAC I during the 1952 US Presidential election it was decided to extend the branding to all machines made by the other computing divisions of the Remington Rand company (Engineering Research Associates and the Norwalk Laboratory of Remington Rand).
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Vinony's link graph records 275 inbound references to UNIVAC, and connects out to Sperry Corporation, United States Census Bureau and mainframe computer.
It is catalogued under topics including 1946 establishments in Pennsylvania, 1978 disestablishments in Pennsylvania and American companies disestablished in 1978.
Vinony links it to 25 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Computing device.discontinued
- 1986
- Computing device.logo
- UNIVAC wordmark.svg
- Computing device.successor
- Unisys 2200 series
- Computing device.predecessor
- ENIAC
- Computing device.image
- Univac I Census dedication.jpg
- Computing device.caption
- The UNIVAC I in use at the United States Census Bureau in 1951
- Computing device.aka
- Universal Automatic Computer
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- computer
- Manufacturer
- Sperry Corporation
- Image
- Univac I Census dedication.jpg
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- different from
- Multivac
- discoverer or inventor
- John Mauchly
- Commons category
- UNIVAC
- inception
- 1946-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History and structure
- Models
- Operating systems
- Trademark
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation. After capturing the public imagination with the use of the UNIVAC I during the 1952 US Presidential election it was decided to extend the branding to all machines made by the other computing divisions of the Remington Rand company (Engineering Research Associates and the Norwalk Laboratory of Remington Rand).
Subsequently after the merger of Remington Rand with the Sperry Corporation (under name of Sperry Rand) in 1955, it was decided to merge all three divisions along with Remington Rand's tabulator division into one unified organization under the name of the Univac division. This name would persist until the mid 1980's when it would be renamed to the Sperry Computer Systems Division, the last UNIVAC-badged system was the UNIVAC 1100/90 which was announced in 1982 and first shipped in late 1983.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “UNIVAC” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.