What is UNIVAC?
Universal Automatic Computer unveiled the first commercially viable computer in 1951 that was mass-built. There were more than 40 systems sold. The memory in the UNIVAC I consisted of 5,000 vacuum tubes, weighed close to eight tonnes, and contained 1,000 12-digit values stored in mercury-filled acoustic delay lines. Magnetic tape reels with a 1MB data capacity and a 128 cpi density were used for storage.
When the computer projected Eisenhower would defeat Stevenson in 1952, UNIVAC became associated with computers. It was used up to the early 1960s with UNIVAC I machines. See early memory and delay line memory.
What Is the Full Form of UNIVAC?
UNIVAC stands for Universal Automatic Computer, T he first computer in history and the first to be used for commerce. It used transistorized circuitry. It was based on the same principles but used vacuum tubes for computing instead of transistors, led a group of engineers from the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC) that developed it.