Seventy five years ago – on June 14, 1951 – the UNIVAC I was officially put into service by the U.S. Census Bureau. The ...

Even if you aren’t a Disney fan, you probably know about EPCOT — Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow — a Disney attraction that promised a glimpse of the future. [ErnieTech] takes a glimpse ...

Remington Rand's Univac computer was big and expensive. But it built its reputation quickly as a predictor of presidential elections. Photo: U.S. Army View Slideshow __1952: __Television makes its ...

This year marks 75 years since one of the most important machines in computing history was switched on for the very first ...

PHILADELPHIA -- For two of the men who worked on UNIVAC, the world's first commercial computer, the idea that their legacy would spawn a revolution didn't occur to them at the time. James McGarvey, 77 ...

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 ...

These pages are early versions of documentation for training programmers on a solid-state Univac computer known variously as the New Univac Computer, the UNIVAC Solid-State 80 (with an eighty-column ...

There are two UNIVAC 1219B computers that have survived since the 1960s and one of them is even operational. [Nathan Farlow] wanted to run a Minecraft server on it, so he did. After a lot of work, of ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. __1952: __Television makes its first foray into predicting a presidential election based on computer analysis of early returns. The Univac computer makes an ...