Remington Rand's Univac computer was big and expensive. But it built its reputation quickly as a predictor of presidential elections. Photo: U.S. Army View Slideshow __1952: __Television makes its ...

The Univac during the 1950s The company that invented the first commercial computer apologized on the eve of its 50th anniversary for any "unintended consequences" of its use. Unisys Corporation ...

It was November 4, 1952, and Americans huddled in their living rooms to follow the results of the Presidential race between General Dwight David Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, Governor of Illinois.

Computer memories were once far more exotic than today’s neat, tiny rows of chips. There was, for example, the principle internal storage system for the Univac 1 which consisted of tubes of mercury 22 ...