Sperry’s Univac division trails in some key areas; General Electric, for example, is well ahead in the promising “process control” computers that can run pipeline systems or steel mills.

Sitting next to the desk of CBS Anchor Walter Cronkite was a mockup of a huge gadget called a UNIVAC (UNIVersal Automatic Computer), which ... merged with the Sperry Corporation and became Sperry ...

The UNIVAC originated with the Remington Rand company, which had bought Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. Remington Rand later merged with the Sperry Corporation to become Sperry Rand.

In 1966, NASA quickly brought UNIVAC's programmers and its computers in to run the ... the late 1970s, Sperry ended the UNIVAC brand name, and in 1986 was acquired by another computer manufacturer ...