Univac computer console and IBM equipment, October 1956. Lawrence Livermore accepted delivery of its first computer—a Univac—in 1952, the year of the Laboratory's founding. Image courtesy of ...

In 1952, the computer predicted Eisenhower's victory over Stevenson, and, for a while, UNIVAC was synonymous with "computer." UNIVAC I machines were in use until the early 1960s. See delay line ...

In days gone by, a common retail hack used by some of the less honorable of our peers was the price tag switcheroo. You’d ...

Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, who had developed ENIAC, one of the earliest computers. Their new product was Univac, a computer that recorded information on high-speed magnetic tape, an ...

They developed the specifications for a digital computer eventually known as the UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer); ...

there was a wonderful representation of small 8 and 16-bit home computers from the 80s, an awful lot of PDP and VAX-based minicomputers, and even some very big iron in the form of a UNIVAC and a Cray.

A computer that used vacuum tubes as switching elements; for example, the UNIVAC I. See computer generations. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

Learn more about our history here. A recent LinkedIn social media post about the Univac 1110 mainframe computer used by students in the 1970s and 1980s prompted a number of alumni to share their ...