UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation.

The UNIVAC I was designed as a commercial data-processing computer, intended to replace the punched-card accounting machines of the day. It could read 7,200 decimal digits per second (it did …

Jun 14, 2025 · Short for Universal Automatic Computer, the UNIVAC, a trademark of the Unisys corporation, is an electrical computer containing thousands of vacuum tubes. It used punch cards …

Jul 20, 2010 · On June 14, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC, the first commercially produced electronic digital computer in the United States.

As the first commercially available computer and the first to store data on magnetic tape, the UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer) attracted substantial public interest and was a commercial success.

Computing burst into popular culture with UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer), arguably the first computer to become a household name. A versatile, general-purpose machine, UNIVAC was the …

Jul 23, 2025 · UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) is the first computer that was used for commercial purposes for the first time. It was developed by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer …