Essays Tagged: "UNIVAC"

American computer Industry

had been made in several aspects of advanced programming. This group of machines includedEDVAC and UNIVAC, the first commercially available computers (Hazewindus, 102).The UNIVAC was developed by Joh ... oration,AmericaÕs first computer company in the 1940Õs. During the development of the UNIVAC, they began to run short on funds and sold their company to the largerRemington-Rand Corporat ...

(10 pages) 274 2 2.7 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

First generation of computers

le computer was delivered to theBureau of the Census by the Eckert Mauchly Computer Corporation. TheUNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was the first computer which wasnot a one-of-a-kind laboratory ... Automatic Computer) was the first computer which wasnot a one-of-a-kind laboratory instrument. The UNIVAC became ahousehold word in 1952 when it was used on a televised newscast to projectthe winner ...

(1 pages) 40 0 3.4 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

History of computers in America

had been made in several aspects of advanced programming. This group of machines included EDVAC and UNIVAC, the first commercially available computers (Hazewindus, 102).The UNIVAC was developed by Joh ... Computer Corporation, America s first computer company in the 1940's. During the development of the UNIVAC, they began to run short on funds and sold their company to the larger Remington-Rand Corpora ...

(10 pages) 212 1 4.6 Feb/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

History of Computers

had been made in several aspects of advanced programming. This group of machines included EDVAC and UNIVAC, the first commerciallyavailable computers (Hazewindus, 102).The UNIVAC was developed by John ... Computer Corporation, America's first computer company in the 1940's. During the development of the UNIVAC, they began to run short on funds and sold their company to the larger Remington-Rand Corpora ...

(10 pages) 176 0 4.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

History of the Computer Industry in America

had been made in several aspects of advanced programming. This group of machines included EDVAC and UNIVAC, the first commercially available computers (Hazewindus, 102).The UNIVAC was developed by Joh ... Computer Corporation, America's first computer company in the 1940's. During the development of the UNIVAC, they began to run short on funds and sold their company to the larger Remington-Rand Corpora ...

(11 pages) 170 0 3.2 Oct/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Book: Bill Gates Author: Adam Woog

h. He got interested in computers when he visited the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle where he saw the Univac mainframe computer.During his childhood, Bill was good in tennis and water-skiing. He was als ...

(3 pages) 24 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Secondary Disk Storage

eir initial intention was to introduce this form of magnetic storage technology on Remington-Rand's UNIVAC I computer. As the computer industry developed over the next ten years, nearly all computers ...

(4 pages) 67 0 0.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Computers in society.

extremely noisy.The beginning of the commercial computer age was in June of 1951. This was when the UNIVAC (universal automatic computer) was delivered to a client. The client was the U.S. bureau of t ...

(3 pages) 40 0 3.8 Dec/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Types Of Computers

the Seven Dwarfs": Burroughs, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and UNIVAC. IBM's dominance grew out of their development of the 360 series mainframes; this basic archi ... of the latter companies were also often referred to as "The BUNCH" from their initials (Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, CDC, Honeywell).Notable manufacturers outside the USA were Siemens and Telefunken in Ge ...

(19 pages) 201 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Computers: Past, Present, and Future

had been made in several aspects of advanced programming. This group of machines included EDVAC and UNIVAC, the first commercially available computers (Hazewindus, 102).The UNIVAC was developed by Joh ... Computer Corporation, America's first computer company in the 1940's. During the development of the UNIVAC, they began to run short on funds and sold their company to the larger Remington-Rand Corpora ...

(11 pages) 128 1 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science