Technology: First commercial computer UNIVAC turns 50
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/26868p-478549c.html
Unisys
Center for the History of Information Technology at the University of
Minnesota
By JOANN LOVIGLIO, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (June 14, 2001 08:24 p.m. EDT) - For two of the men who helped
build UNIVAC, the world's first commercial computer, the idea that their
work would spawn a revolution didn't occur to them at the time. Original team member James McGarvey, 77, of Oreland, said workers didn't
realize the impact their work would have - or that they would be viewed as
high-tech pioneers. "I don't think anybody had any idea where we were going to go with
computers," he said, then laughed. "It was by accident; we were looking for
work and we found it - for $40 a week."
Fifty years later, computers are ubiquitous, but nowhere near the size - nor
the price - of UNIVAC, which was first used June 14, 1951....
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