The UNIVAC was a "stored program" computer, one of the first. More than anything else, that made it different from the machines it was designed to replace.

The Computer History Museum has one of the few remaining original UNIVAC consoles on display. It's a large panel propped on top of a 1940s-era steel desk with a keyboard.

UNIVAC not only predicted elections, but the computer also helped report the weather. And if all this computer history wasn’t enough, here is Edward R. Murrow’s 1951 “See It Now” story ...

UNIVAC was a stored-program computer that had 5,400 vacuum tubes, could tabulate 4,000 items a minute, used alphanumeric characters, checked its own work and was “just” half the size of ENIAC ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1952, a UNIVAC I computer made history by successfully predicting the outcome of the presidential election, live on national television with legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite reading the results.

The 1969 Neiman Marcus catalog included a futuristic product called the Honeywell Kitchen Computer. The red and white trapezoidal machine came equipped with an H316 minicomputer, a pedestal, a ...

UNIVAC (1951) The EDVAC was used to calculate ballistic trajectories for the military, but its designers were also interested in creating computers for civilian use.