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 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 one ...
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In the 1950s, businessman and machines manufacturer Remington Rand introduced America to the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer made in the United States. This particular television commercial ...
Technicians evaluate the UNIVAC computer system in 1951, which took up 352 square feet of floor space and ran at a then-astronomical rate of 2.25 megahertz. Getty In the 1957 film Desk Set, Katherine ...