Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,254 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Univac

From Graces Guide

UNIVAC was the name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. UNIVAC is an acronym for UNIVersal Automatic Computer.

The BINAC, built by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, was the first general-purpose computer for commercial use. The descendants of the later UNIVAC 1107 continue today as products of the Unisys company.

Post-WWII The US Sperry Corporation expanded its interests in electronics and computing, producing the company's first digital computer, SPEEDAC, in 1953

The UNIVAC computer provided the basis for developments of further computers under the Univac brand.

Later the name was applied to a division of the Remington Rand company and successor organizations.

1962 The computer operations of Sperry Rand were separated from the Remington office products division, forming the Univac Division.


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