Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same duo who invented ENIAC, went on to design another major figure in computer history: UNIVAC. UNIVAC was a line of stored-program computers first used by ...

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.

the computer has touched nearly every part of human life. And for decades Minnesota was the global epicenter of computing as birthplace of the supercomputer and home to Univac, Control Data ...