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UNIVAC
UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation. After capturing the public imagination with the use of the UNIVAC I during the 1952 US Presidential election, it was decided to extend the branding to all machines made by the other computing divisions of the Remington Rand company (Engineering Research Associates and the Norwalk Laboratory of Remington Rand).
After the merger of Remington Rand with the Sperry Corporation (under name of Sperry Rand) in 1955, it was decided to merge all three divisions along with Remington Rand’s tabulator division into one unified organization under the name of the Univac division.1 This name persisted until the mid-1980s when it was renamed to the Sperry Computer Systems Division;2 the last UNIVAC-badged system was the UNIVAC 1100/90, which was announced in 1982 and first shipped in late 1983.3
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“The Sperry Rand Corporation Announces the Formation of Remington Rand Univac” (PDF). World Radio History. Electronics Magazine. January 1956. pp. 47–49. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 31, 2023. Retrieved February 15, 2024. ↩
Purdum, Todd S. (October 27, 1985). “Sperry’s strategist; A new chief pushes to keep his company independent”. The New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2024. ↩
Sanger, David E. (July 15, 1982). “UNIVAC introduces large computers”. The New York Times. Retrieved September 2, 2025. ↩
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