计算突然成为流行文化，与UNIVAC（通用自动计算机）可以说是密不可分，它在当时可以说是家喻户晓的名字。它首开了用同一设计方案生产多台计算机的先河，并从一开始设计就充分考虑了企业应用问题。 尽管Univac不是人类拥有的第一台计算机，但是它确实称得 ...

The UNIVAC had already predicted the 1952 Presidential election. But Remington Rand, the company behind the machine, had bigger things in mind. Like the weather. And making money. The UNIVAC was one ...

It was November 4, 1952, and Americans huddled in their living rooms to follow the results of the Presidential race between General Dwight David Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, Governor of Illinois.

首个UNIVAC I是在1951年的6月14日交付。从1951年到1958年，总共交付了46台UNIVAC I计算机。说起UNIVAC，其实还有段历史。它的名字来源于1947年John Mauchly，选择Universal Automatic Computer作为其公司产品的名字。 UNIVAC I一开始被用于美国人口普查，它是使用晶体管的计算机 ...

Exactly 65 years ago, on Mar. 31, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau signed a contract for the first commercial computer in the U.S. and thus entered a new era. When UNIVAC—the Universal Automatic ...

__1952: __Television makes its first foray into predicting a presidential election based on computer analysis of early returns. The Univac computer makes an amazingly accurate projection that the ...

The trucks rolled up to the brand-new, ultramodern factory in Louisville, Ky., one day in January 1954. Now, 47 years later, no one seems to remember the exact date. There wasn’t any hoopla: No ...

“The white ones are the men and the yellow ones are the women” is the tag line on this odd ad for Univac’s experiemental photochromatic technology. Odd because it was 1969 and drugs were the new ...

This article was initially written in 2009. Sending men to the Moon was not just about building gigantic Saturn V rockets and shooting them off into space. While it was the critical component of the ...

In response to the June 15 Associated Press article discussing UNIVAC's 50th anniversary: I'm a very mature "data processing person" (a seldom-used term in the PC time frame; in fact, most current ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Engineers J. Presper Eckert and John ...