Much of the UNIVAC system was housed in a cabinet big enough for a person to walk in. There were more than 5,000 vacuum tubes and tanks of mercury where data was stored as sound waves for memory. Some ...

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 ...

In the 1950s, businessman and machines manufacturer Remington Rand introduced America to the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer made in the United States. This particular television commercial ...

The Univac 1004 Card Processor was designed and developed in the 1960's. Its physical size and processor speed along with its peripheral devices (card reader, printer and card punch) was at the time, ...

Grace Murray Hopper Collection, 1944-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning ...

Kaivac’s new UniVac is a smaller, more versatile version of the company’s award-winning Dispense-and-Vac cleaning system. Built for cleaning floors in restrooms, commercial kitchens, entrance ways, ...

Some milestone moments in journalism converged 60 years ago on election night in the run between Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower and Democratic Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson. It was the first coast-to ...