UNIVAC Computer Nameplate
date: label: date made
content: 1950s
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a nameplate from a UNIVAC computer. The UNIVAC (later known as the UNIVAC I) was the first successful commercial computer sold in the United States. It initially was designed by the Eckert-Mauchly Corporation in Philadelphia, which in 1950 became a subsidiary of Remington Rand. The firm used the name Eckert-Mauchly Division of Remington Rand for a short time in the early 1950s - it would be known under a variety of other names, and is a forerunner of the present firm of Unisys.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John K. Swearingen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0491.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0491.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Computer Name Plate
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer name plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: .5 cm x 6.1 cm x 1.52 cm; 3/16 in x 2 13/32 in x 19/32 in