UNIVAC, short for Universal Automatic Computer, was put into service 60 years ago this week. NPR librarian Kee Malesky says librarians have a... Now that we have handheld devices to do everything for ...

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 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 ...

Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the introduction of UNIVAC I, the world’s first commercial computer. Unisys Corp., an e-business solutions company whose roots go back to UNIVAC, yesterday ...

Technicians evaluate the UNIVAC computer system in 1951, which took up 352 square feet of floor space and ran at a then-astronomical rate of 2.25 megahertz. Getty In the 1957 film Desk Set, Katherine ...

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 ...