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 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 ...

In 1954, GE Appliance Park in Louisville became the first private business in the U.S. to buy a UNIVAC I computer. The 30-ton computer, which was first used by the federal government, cost $1.2 ...

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 ...

The Franklin Life Insurance Co. had to tear out windows and walls to accommodate Springfield’s first computer. Then it had to hire a derrick to hoist the “electronic brain” five floors up. Franklin ...

Univac computer console and IBM equipment, October 1956. Lawrence Livermore accepted delivery of its first computer—a Univac—in 1952, the year of the Laboratory's founding. Image courtesy of Lawrence ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Life and Casualty Insurance Company ...