Conference Paper, The UNIVAC System
date: label: Date made
content: 12.10.1951
notes: label: Description
content: This brown binder contains a copy of a paper entitled "THE UNIVAC SYSTEM" presented by James R. Weiner on December 10, 1951, at an AIEE-IRE Conference held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The co-authors were J. Presper Eckert, Weiner, H. Frazer Welsh, and Herbert F. Mitchell of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation Division of Remington Rand Inc. The paper discusses the organization of the UNIVAC system, its applications to scientific, statistical, commercial and logistical problems, its performance record, and an evaluation of UNIVAC design after a period of eight months. According to the concluding sentence on page 20 of the document, "the UNIVAC becomes the realization of a hope which has long been in the minds of its designers: An economical, completely reliable commercial computer for performing the routine mental work of the world much as automatic machinery has taken over the routine mechanical work of the manufacturer."
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Sperry-Univac
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1974.312206.04
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content: 312206.04
label: accession number
content: 312206
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Documentation, Computer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .4 cm x 23 cm x 9.2 cm; 5/32 in x 9 1/16 in x 3 5/8 in