IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Engineers J. Presper Eckert and John ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This computer module has an aluminum ...
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 ...