1951 UNIVAC 1 Computer Basic System Components First Mass Produced Computer in U.S.
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Your contribution greatly helps! Thank you! ~ CHAP. -- We created this explanatory, educational overview of the 1951 UNIVAC 1 to show in more detail many of its basic components. Intro segment includes higher quality images than are contained in the original 1953 film. The 1953 film begins at index 5:52, followed by brief photo gallery. UNIVAC was the first mass produced business computer in the U.S., and opened the door to a successful line of commercial computing machines. The historical data in the film is well worth preserving and the introductory images may help add some clarity. Compilation by the Computer History Archives Project.
* A large number of dedicated individuals have done a great deal to preserve the history of these early machines and those that followed. For more information, please visit some of the following excellent resources.
Sincere thanks to the following individuals and organizations.
Tony Buglione, Manager Ext. Communications, Media Relations, UNISYS
“Large Scale Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,” (George Michael & others); Sam Coleman & others www.computer-history.info/
Alan Reiter’s UNIVAC history univac1.0catch.com/
Al Kossow’s Online Software Archive www.Bitsavers.org
VIPClubMN.org, (former employees of Unisys & predecessor companies), Lowell A. Benson, director/editor; Harvey Taipale, President; Ronald Smith, Historian, www.VIPClubMN.org and UNIVAC articles at vipclubmn.org/BlueBell.html
Ed Thelen, Computer Historian ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/
The Computer History Museum, Mountainview, CA
www.computerhistory.org
Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications & Computation (SMECC), Ed Sharpe Archivist , www.smecc.org/
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (“NASA”) archives
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (“LLNL”)
UA-cam film Index:
0:06 Dedication
0:10 Prologue, Introduction
01:32 Introduction - Remington-Rand
02:15 Narration & Images - Supervisory Control Unit, Oscilloscope, Central Processing Unit,
Uniservo, Unityper, Uniprinter, Mercury Delay Line Memory, Vacuum tube circuits, Card-to-Tape Unit, High Speed Printer
05:47 Acknowledgments & Resources
05:52 Original Remington Rand Film 1953
23:25 Photo Gallery & Resources
24:26 Copyright Notice
24:29 Acknowledgements
24:41 Deleted Scene
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Original (1950's) UNIVAC material copyright by Unisys - Наука та технологія
In the 1950s, I worked for Univac on one of these computers, first in their factory testing them and then at a military installation.
Hi Lawrence, that sounds awesome. Which factory site did you work at? ~ Mark
Hi Mark, I worked in the St. Paul, Minnesota plant after spending 4 years in the Navy. Then in the 1980s, I had a business building and selling IBM clone computers.
Hi Lawrence, sounds like a good career path! I bet you have lots of good stories to tell. (If it interests you, check out or BINAC video, some fascinating pre-Univac info there too.) Thanks for sharing your background! ~ Mark
Computer History Archives Project Thanks again Mark.
I did have a very interesting career which started when I took a correspondence course from the National Radio Institute when I was a freshman in high school. I ran a radio repair business all while I was in high school. I ran seven different businesses, received multiple patents, traveled all over the world for my work, now at the age of 83, I have just got involved with shooting video, and have built up two cinema camera systems with all the lighting, audio, etc. I am starting a view project this coming Wednesday.
We are always taught about UNIVAC in school in a very boring way. I'm glad I searched it on UA-cam
Hi Pratishtha, thank you for the kind words. I am happy you liked this detailed look at the UNIVAC components. Most people don't get to see the real insides of this early machine. We are glad we had the chance to bring this to you. Keep well! ~ Victor, at CHAP
I confidently predict that by the year 2030, every major city in the USA will have a UNIVAC.
We have come SO FAR from those early days... and I know where are JUST beginning. ♥
Brought a tear to my eye that did !
If you find a dictionary that was written before the 1940s, look up the word, "Computer", you'll find that it's a person who does calculations for a living. Prior to the electronic computers, business calculations were an expensive time consuming process.
same goes for "data" which used to be the plural of "date" and "processor" was another job
I still think "Univac" is an awesome name for a computer!
IT'S NICE TO KNOW A BRIEF HISTORY OF STUFF.
I had always heard about pulse memory, but had never realized it was actually soundwaves in a mercury tank! Wow, we have come a long way.
Hi Bert, yes, its amazing how far we've come. Reading the UNIVAC 1 Maintenance Manual was a real eye-opener for me on how much technical knowledge and detailed understanding the early computer operators had to have. Today's software does almost everything for us. Back in the 50's and 60's, and even 70's, one had to know what the computer was actually doing with the data and how to format and understand the input and output. You had to be very good at math too. ~ Thanks for watching and thanks very much for your comments!
The advertisement is amazing, I just picked up one the Remington Rand UNIVAC lab coats.
I love the narrators of back then.
The grandfather of all electronics and software we use now started here with this revolutionary machine.
Computers were designed to solve problems, which didn't exist before computers were designed. :) Anyway this is a mind-blowing masterpiece of engineering. The giant microchip from 1951, which could predict election results after just 6 years from WWII. Isn't that fantastic? As always thank you for saving (potentially for hundreds of years, because they are now digital) these old films and photos. Great work!
Hi Oleg, as always, thanks very much for your comments! Glad you like the videos. Happy to have the opportunity to share. UNISYS Corporate is nice enough to allow use of some material. Wish someone had kept all the original 16 mm films from the 1950's, but alas... seems not. Thanks for watching! (Is that a cream soda you have in your photo?)
Actually, this is a bottle of beer.. :)
Actually, Eniac was built specifically to solve a problem which very much existed before computers…the very mathematically intense problem of calculating shell trajectories. It took human computers (people were called computers before the machines were) weeks to make a firing table and the Army wanted a faster method.
Geez! What a machine. And how far we have come. From that massive computer to holding one in our hands. (Cell phones) And a laptop. Woh..
How long before we ARE the computer; becoming cyborg data banks where circuitry motivates the body, logic rules the mind, and love is deemed non-sequeter?
thanks for sharing the past with us . i came in on the tail end of this in 1976 and later . almost all gone now.
Glad you enjoyed it
We still use the original terminology for many components of computers. Only now they are collected in a space as small as a human hand!
I have one of those Tektronix oscilloscopes siting next to me wright now!
Awesome! They were really built to last. : )
Wreally?
oooooooh , I'm jealous! :)
1940- I wish i had 0.77 mb ram ccomputer
2021- I wish I had a 32 gb ram computer
laughs in 128gb
Interesting to see the history of computer. Now computer is like pocket-sized device. Thanks to past founders
No-one back then even considered or dreamed that computers could, (or would), be used for recreation or entetainment.
Good infomation. thanks!
Super interesting! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Hi Gloria, thank you for the great feedback. Glad you enjoyed it! ~ Victor
I wish I had one of these giants in my room! :)
Look Up Tommy Flowers He designed and built the first electronic semi programmable Computer in 1943 and was known as Colossus to break the German Cypher codes at Blechley Park in WW2
Such a cool film!
IT promotional material sure has changed since the 50's :V
Those magnetic tape reel systems, have a piercing stare!
And they're yelling too!
I read this recently - that the computer is to computer science what the telescope is to astronomy .
Interesting analogy! Thanks!
This is an excellent marketing video for Univac that I wish I was exposed to when I was a kid in the sixties! It is amazing how much is similar to computers today.
Thanks Jim. The early designers had to come up with all the basic infrastructures and then build on top of that. You are right, lots of those basics are similar to what we have today. Thanks for watching.
I’d like to go back there and hook up my phone to it.
Thank you for teaching me about UNIVAC, even though I have been familiar with IBM, as a keypunch operator, since 1972. I am pleased I saw that the first UNIVAC had a typewriter-like keyboard. I guess that it was used to keyboard instruction programs into the central processing unit. Now I know that the UNIVAC was tape-based. This computer system required lots of real estate to be put into proper place. It seems as though the microcomputer (PC) was the only computer that superseded the UNIVAC.
Hi @captainkeyboard1007, thanks very much for your interesting feedback, as always. -- However, I don't think I understood your last sentence though. "Superseded" the UNIVAC is what way? size-to-power ratio...?
Thanks~ Victor
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject Pleasant October, Victory Victor! I meant that things seem as though the microcomputer (PC) "replaced" the UNIVAC which consisted of tubes, similar to those that were in television sets and hi-fi music systems. Or, I meant that the personal computer with its integrated circuits replaced the bulky mainframe computer. I hope this comment will afford you the clarity you need.
Gradually transistorized units replaced some of the vacuum tube banks,then some of the transistorized units were miniaturized into printed and then integrated circuits ? More compact and efficient "memory" devices some of which could be retrofitted to Univac I machines?
Univac II ? Univac "1108" ? Did Cray develop his "supercomputer" after having worked as a designer of advanced Univacs ? Meanwhile von Neuman had taken secrets as to Univac internals to IBM ? I understand IBM made an important advance in lighter and cheaper/more efficient tape decks ?
many generations of computer developments and corresponding development of "languages" and "programming" which became software?
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I worked in Blue Bell, PA. My desk had an asset tag that said Eckert-Mauchly #37
That sounds very cool. By any chance, did you save the tag? : )
From the days when if your city had a computer, it was the *only* computer.
In early 50s Sweden, it was debated if we'd needed two or three computers.
(interestingly, when we couldn't buy a computer from the US, we managed to make our own!)
I’m watching this on a touchscreen cellphone about the size of my hand. Crazy
GuyX 1, it is quite a contrast, isn't it? ~ VK
I always thought 1950s supercomputers took all day, generating deadly heat, to tell you what 1+1 was.
Great machine made by human.
Leo was the first computer to be available for industrial use. See Lyons tea rooms!
An amazing machine. Should save my business loads on labour costs. Where do I get one?
Radio Shack.
ebay
I discovered as a facilities manager for a data center to IGNORE what the salesman said as far as power requirements and air conditioning loads. You took the figures they provided, doubled that and doubled that AGAIN and you MIGHT BE OK. Got into a lot of heated discussions in staff meetings with the sales reps and the GM and they INSISTED I follow what they gave us for power and A/C requirements. Needless to say I was proved right but had pre planned for expansion without telling them, so I was able to correct the issues without any lost time (but at a CONSIDERABLE EXPENSE NOT BUDGETED FOR). I can't imagine what those old monsters put out in heat especially with all the vacuum tubes. While we have come a long way, these things STILL suck up massive amounts of electricity and air conditioning.
Excellent points. Yes, the power and cooling requirements of many of these early machines was enormous. Something the sales people very often downplayed or, ignored. The annual cost must have been considerable. Thanks for sharing that info! ~ Victor
Even today's laptops put out hot air and especially some of the video cards eat up battery power ?
13:28 that tape data unit looks like it just saw a ghost.
15:48
"I'm in."
Mercury-vapor RAM? Cool
Wowzers. It's a calculator that takes up a city block yay 🙌
12:08 the keyboard of the "Unityper" looks not to different from the one I am using right now!
cherry mx ?
@@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim Yes, Actually! Mechanical KBs 4 Ever!
Ghow a 4bit machine changed the world.
A "programmer" ! ? wow
What is the univac
This is an individual called a programmer... Now we know what to call them..... LOL
It's about 70 years on, but to this day, I think "Univac" is still a "Bitchen'" name for a computer! To bad it was dropped in the 80s!
Today:
“Binary, because it’s neither male or female”
Actually Binary IS either Male or Female. The trend of the current "Tumblr" era is NON Binary, meaning NEITHER Male or Female.
1952: UNIVAC successfully predicts the presidential election
2016: The entire mainstream media, using far more powerful computers, predict Hillary Clinton will win in a landslide
uwu