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UNIVAC
1951
John
Mauchly and J Presper Eckert started their own computer
company after leaving the Moore School of Engineering
at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1946 they were given
money by the US Census Bureau to develop a computer to
deal with the US population explosion happening at the
time. But in 1950 they were in financial difficulty and
were given money by the electric razor manufacturers,
Remington Rand Inc - the “Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation”
became the “Univac Division of Remington Rand”. The Universal
Automatic Computer (UNIVAC) was delivered to the US Census
Bureau in 1951. This was the first computer to be produced
commercially in the United States and was the successor
to the ENIAC, with a total of 46 UNIVACs being built.
The UNIVAC was a direct competitor with computers made
by IBM for the business market. One of the major advances
that the UNIVAC introduced was an ability to handle both
numerical and alphabetical information with equal success. |
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