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 ...

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 Democrat ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exactly 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 one ...

The UNIVAC had already predicted the 1952 Presidential election. But Remington Rand, the company behind the machine, had bigger things in mind. Like the weather. And making money. The UNIVAC was one ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The first UNIVAC I computer was sent ...