Proper noun
UNIVAC
Acronym of Universal Automatic Computer.
UNIVAC a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons. Dave Barry
COBOL Grace Murray Hopper at the UNIVAC keyboard, c. 1960 In the spring of 1959, a two-day conference known as the Conference on Data Systems Languages ( CODASYL ) brought together computer experts from industry and government. Source: Internet
March March 29 : The Rosenbergs sentenced to death March 31 : Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer. Source: Internet
It was developed for the UNIVAC I at Remington Rand during the period from 1955 until 1959. Source: Internet
First commercial computers The first programmable computers for commercial sale, such as the UNIVAC I and the IBM 701 citation included features to make their operation simpler. Source: Internet
In the 1970s, UNIVAC produced the Real-Time Basic (RTB) system to support large-scale time sharing, also patterned after the Dartmouth BC system. Source: Internet