E xactly 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 ...

In the 1950s, the UNIVAC mainframe became synonymous with the term "computer." For a generation of TV watchers in the 1950s, UNIVAC <i>was</i> America's first computer. But a recent biography of ...

On November 4, 1952, CBS News used a Remington Rand UNIVAC computer for its presidential election night coverage. Although some predicted a close race between Republican Dwight Eisenhower and ...

In 1952, a UNIVAC (universal automatic computer) I mainframe computer was used to predict the result of the US presidential election. After inventing the ENIAC and BINAC, J Presper Eckert and John ...

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 first computer was mechanical, and it started a revolution. The computer has been around for a long time, ... By the 1960s, UNIVAC was one among seven other large computer companies, ...

In 1954, GE Appliance Park in Louisville became the first private business in the U.S. to buy a UNIVAC I computer. The 30-ton computer, which was first used by the federal government, cost $1.2 ...

On the eve of Election Day, we revisit the 1952 election, when CBS used the groundbreaking UNIVAC computer to accurately forecast Dwight D. Eisenhower's victory. It was a turning point in election ...

UNIVAC, short for Universal Automatic Computer, was put into service 60 years ago this week. Just 46 of them were built, costing about $1 million each. The Air Force, General Electric and ...

UNIVAC, originally started as the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, was the descendant of the namesake founders' works on the ENIAC, the first stored-program digital computer which went online ...

Frances "Betty" Snyder Holberton, the software pioneer who programmed the groundbreaking ENIAC digital computer for the Army in the 1940s and later helped create the COBOL and FORTRAN languages ...

In the 1950s, the UNIVAC mainframe became synonymous with the term "computer." For a generation of TV watchers in the 1950s, UNIVAC <i>was</i> America's first computer. But a recent biography of ...