The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer design for business application produced in the...
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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...
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The UNIVAC 1100/2200 series is a series of compatible 36-bit computer systems, beginning with the UNIVAC 1107 in 1962, initially made by Sperry Rand. The...
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[circular reference] UNIVAC 40 UNIVAC 60 UNIVAC 120 UNIVAC I UNIVAC 1101 UNIVAC 1102 UNIVAC 1103 UNIVAC 1104 UNISERVO tape drive UNIVAC High speed printer...
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The UNIVAC II computer was an improvement to the UNIVAC I that the UNIVAC division of Sperry Rand first delivered in 1958. The improvements included the...
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EXEC I is UNIVAC's original operating system developed for the UNIVAC 1107 in 1962. EXEC I is a batch processing operating system that supports multiprogramming...
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Grace Hopper (section UNIVAC)
Mark I team, led by Howard H. Aiken. In 1949, she joined the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation and was part of the team that developed the UNIVAC I computer...
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(Algebraic Translator 3) compiler, an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II. MATH-MATIC was written beginning around 1955 by a team led by...
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first English-like data processing language. It was developed for the UNIVAC I at Remington Rand under Grace Hopper from 1955 to 1959, and helped shape...
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the use of magnetic tape to store large volumes of data in compact form (UNIVAC I) and the introduction of random access secondary storage (IBM RAMAC 305)...
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Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, which led to GE's installation of a UNIVAC I computer and printer, believed to be the first commercial use of a computer...
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Remington Rand (section UNIVAC)
typewriter manufacturer and in a later incarnation the manufacturer of the UNIVAC line of mainframe computers. Formed in 1927 following a merger, Remington...
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The UNIVAC III, designed as an improved transistorized replacement for the vacuum tube UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II computers. The project was started by the...
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general-purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States. Together, Mauchly...
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memory (ROM) for computers. It was used in the UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) and the UNIVAC II, developed by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation...
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Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation (section UNIVAC)
work at his company again; by then the UNIVAC was seriously behind schedule. The programming to allow the UNIVAC I to be used in predicting the outcome...
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The ERA 1101, later renamed UNIVAC 1101, was a computer system designed and built by Engineering Research Associates (ERA) in the early 1950s and continued...
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The UNISERVO tape drive was the primary I/O device on the UNIVAC I computer. It was the first tape drive for a commercially sold computer. The UNISERVO...
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The UNIVAC 1103 or ERA 1103, a successor to the UNIVAC 1101, is a computer system designed by Engineering Research Associates and built by the Remington...
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Phosphor bronze (section UNIVAC computer)
tape was first used to record computer data in 1951 on the Eckert-Mauchly UNIVAC I. The UNISERVO drive recording medium was a thin metal strip of 0.5-inch...
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computers, written by Grace Murray Hopper in 1951 and 1952 originally for the UNIVAC I. The A-0 functioned more as a loader or linker than the modern notion of...
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financial troubles and was acquired by Remington Rand Corporation. The UNIVAC I was finished on December 21, 1950. In 1968, "For pioneering and continuing...
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Eckert in the mid-1940s for use in computers such as the EDVAC and the UNIVAC I. Eckert and John Mauchly applied for a patent for a delay-line memory system...
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theory "ARC - Assembler for Booth". hopl.info. Retrieved 11 October 2022. UNIVAC conference, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. 171-page...
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Ferranti Mark 1 (redirect from Ferranti Mark I)
I". The first machine was delivered to the Victoria University of Manchester in February 1951 (publicly demonstrated in July) ahead of the UNIVAC I which...
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Baldwin, one of the show's directors, the name "WABAC" is a reference to the UNIVAC I. Mid-century, large-sized computers often had names that ended in "AC"...
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use of electronic computers for the 1950 United States Census, using a UNIVAC I system, delivered in 1952. The term data processing has mostly been subsumed...
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Picture award and five others. March 31 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. April 11 U.S. President Harry...
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John Mauchly approached the bureau about early funding for UNIVAC development. A UNIVAC I computer was accepted by the bureau in 1951. Historically, the...
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Computer (section Input/output (I/O))
called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [sic] read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that...
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