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This year marks 75 years since one of the most important machines in computing history was switched on for the very first time. On June 14, 1951, the UNIVAC I, short for Universal Automatic Computer, ...

On November 4, 1952 UNIVAC became an overnight TV star when it correctly predicted the outcome of the US presidential elections, proving the pundits wrong. The headlines the next day read "Machine ...

As we head into Super Tuesday, this month's look back at the history of cybersecurity and computing examines when a computer predicted some unbelievable results for the 1952 presidential election.

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 ...

In 1954, GE Appliance Park in Louisville became the first private business in the U.S. to buy a UNIVAC I computer. The 30-ton computer, which was first used by the federal government, cost $1.2 ...

On March 30th, 1951, the US Census Bureau took delivery of the first UNIVAC I computer, the world's first commercially available computer. Although it was put to work with immediate effect at the ...

Democrat Adlai Stevenson had the 1952 election all but in the bag. This was the common assumption, anyway, before that year’s Election Day, and even as early poll returns began trickling in.

Univac computer console and IBM equipment, October 1956. Lawrence Livermore accepted delivery of its first computer—a Univac—in 1952, the year of the Laboratory's founding. Image courtesy of Lawrence ...