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UNIVAC
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Also known as Statistical EDVAC

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).

Key facts

Computing device.discontinued
1986
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UNIVAC wordmark.svg
Computing device.successor
Unisys 2200 series
Computing device.predecessor
ENIAC
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The UNIVAC I in use at the United States Census Bureau in 1951
Computing device.aka
Universal Automatic Computer

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  • 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.

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