Remington Rand's Univac computer was big and expensive. But it built its reputation quickly as a predictor of presidential elections. Photo: U.S. Army View Slideshow __1952: __Television makes its ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA -- For two of the men who worked on UNIVAC, the world's first commercial computer, the idea that their legacy would spawn a revolution didn't occur to them at the time. James McGarvey, 77 ...

In 1952, a UNIVAC (universal automatic computer) I mainframe computer was used to predict the result of the US presidential election. After inventing the ENIAC and BINAC, J Presper Eckert and John ...

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 ...

These pages are early versions of documentation for training programmers on a solid-state Univac computer known variously as the New Univac Computer, the UNIVAC Solid-State 80 (with an eighty-column ...

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 ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. __1952: __Television makes its first foray into predicting a presidential election based on computer analysis of early returns. The Univac computer makes an ...

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 ...