Remington-Rand Presents the Univac
UNIVAC is one of the earliest commercial computers and was easily the most famous computer of the 1950s. This film, produced between 1950 and 1952, shows how the UNIVAC computer was used in business, defense and by the census. The film shows several of the important portions of the UNIVAC system at work, including the high-speed printer, the UNISERVO tape drive, the UNITYPER, card readers and the mercury delay line tanks that served as main memory. The programming process is fully discussed and a business problem is demonstrated. These films served a promotional film as well as a way to demystify computers to the average person.
Tagged with: Automation • computer • Documentary • Eckert-Mauchly • history • office • Programming • Remington-Rand • technology • UNIVAC
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Apparently the first Univac had a pricetag of $1 million. o_o
Excelent video! There is an exibit for UNIVAC at the Boston Museum of Science. I was there recently.
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Cool!
Remington Rand… I think my niece bought that trademark brand name off of ebay…. or was it RCA
That’s it? I expected much more…
it was built for 150,000 but sold retail for 1.2 mil — they sold about 50 of them –
I wonder how long it took to get one set up and running?
That thing’s HUGE!!! Watching this in 2009, I want to laugh whenever they mention how “high-tech” it is
In 60 years they’ll probably think the same of our computers…..
Very interesting video. We’ve come a long way since then, but the funny thing is we’ve probably got an even longer way yet to go.
We are going backwards, friends!
It’s interesting to see that the enthusiasm in software construction and planning has all but vanished these days
“The only requirement now: is that we tell our computer what to do” lol
The lesson here, I think, is that however far we think we’ve advanced we’ll still be laughably antiquated to the people who come after us.
“univac is practically immune to error”… it must have been better than Windows Vista!
it still takes vista HOURS to do anything -_-
in 60 years i doubt curriculum will occur at home with the implanted computers in our brains, technology is amazing.
bet that could run CRYSIS, because its a badass.
Witchcraft! it is witchcraft! burn the machine or it will rule our lives by means of World of Warcraft!
So univac was wire your own or it was a solution of Von Neumann machine ?
von Neumann. The last major hard-wired computer was ENIAC. EDVAC and UNIVAC were the first two major von Neumann machines.
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The beginning of unemployment!
tanks of mercury? yikes!