UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation.

The UNIVAC I was designed as a commercial data-processing computer, intended to replace the punched-card accounting machines of the day. It could read 7,200 decimal digits per second (it did …

Jun 14, 2025 · Short for Universal Automatic Computer, the UNIVAC, a trademark of the Unisys corporation, is an electrical computer containing thousands of vacuum tubes. It used punch cards …

Mar 5, 2019 · The Universal Automatic Computer or UNIVAC was a computer milestone achieved by Dr. Presper Eckert and Dr. John Mauchly, the team that invented the ENIAC computer.

Computing burst into popular culture with UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer), arguably the first computer to become a household name. A versatile, general-purpose machine, UNIVAC was the …

Dec 6, 2019 · UNIVAC, the UNIVersal Automatic Computer, was the first computer built for general commercial use and used magnetic tape, rather than punch cards, to input and store data. John …

Jul 20, 2010 · On June 14, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC, the first commercially produced electronic digital computer in the United States.

Sep 18, 2011 · In the 1950s, the UNIVAC mainframe became synonymous with the term "computer.” It was November 4, 1952, and Americans huddled in their living rooms to follow the results of the …

Dec 10, 2025 · After leaving the Moore School, Eckert and Mauchly struggled to obtain capital to build their latest design, a computer they called the Universal Automatic Computer, or UNIVAC.

The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer for business applications produced in the United States.