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, 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 ...

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 ...

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.