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UNIVAC I, as the first successful civilian computer, was a key part of the dawn of the computer age. Despite early delays, the UNIVAC program at the Census Bureau was a great success. The Bureau purchased a second UNIVAC I machine in the mid-1950's, and two UNIVAC 1105 [JPG] computers for the 1960 census. Further Information:
Mar 31, 2019 · On March 31st, 1951, Remington Rand delivered UNIVAC, the first commercial computer produced in the US, to the US Census Bureau. It competed with, and ultimately replaced, punch-card machines. It used about 5,000 vacuum tubes, weighed 16,686 pounds (7.5 tons), consumed 125 kW, and could perform abou
May 30, 2024 · J. Presper Eckert (born April 9, 1919, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died June 3, 1995, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was an American engineer and co-inventor of the first general-purpose electronic computer, a digital machine that was the prototype for most computers in use today. Eckert was educated at the Moore School of Electrical ...
UNIVAC I, as the first successful civilian computer, was a key part of the dawn of the computer age. Despite early delays, the UNIVAC program at the Census Bureau was a great success. The Bureau purchased a second UNIVAC I machine in the mid-1950's, and two UNIVAC 1105 [JPG] computers for the 1960 census. Further Information:
The UNIVAC LARC, short for the Livermore Advanced Research Computer, is a mainframe computer designed to a requirement published by Edward Teller in order to run hydrodynamic simulations for nuclear weapon design. It was one of the earliest supercomputers. [1]
Abstract: In March 1951, the first UNIVAC system formally passed its acceptance tests and was put promptly into operation by the Bureau of the Census. Since the UNIVAC is the first computer which can handle both alphabetic and numerical data to reach full-scale operation so far, its operating record and a review of the types of problems to which it has been applied provide an interesting ...
The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC) began development of a recorder that was introduced in 1951, after acquisition of the company by Remington Rand. The Uniservo 1 served as an input-output device to replace punched cards on the new Univac 1 computer. It used a 0.5 inch wide plated phosphor-bronze tape with a linear density of 128 ...
