ON THIS DAY
In 1951, Univac I, the world's first commercial computer, designed for the U.S. Census Bureau, was introduced.

On June 14, 1951, Remington Rand delivered its first computer, UNIVAC I, to the U.S. Census Bureau. It weighed 16,000 pounds, used 5,000 vacuum tubes, and could perform about 1,000 calculations per second.

UNIVAC, the first commercially produced digital computer, is ...

https://www.history.com › this-day-in-history › univac-computer-dedicated

1951 | Timeline of Computer History | Computer History Museum

https://www.computerhistory.org › timeline › 1951

First Univac 1 delivered to US Census Bureau ... J. Lyons & Company introduce LEO-1 ... and was performing useful work before any other commercial computer system in the world. ... Engineer Raymond Stuart-Williams turned Bennet's design into an actual machine that debuted at the Festival on April 12th, 1951. Ferranti ...

UNIVAC and the First Census Bureau Computer: A Brief History

https://time.com › History › Technology

Mar 31, 2016 - The Remington Rand Univac was the first commercial computer produced in ... 31, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau signed a contract for the first ... Advances in computer technology during the Second World War made for faster ...

The UNIVAC Computer History and Development - ThoughtCo

https://www.thoughtco.com › Inventions › Famous Inventions

Mar 5, 2019 - The UNIVAC computer was the first commercially available computer ... proceeded badly, and it was not until 1948 that the actual design and ... On March 31, 1951, the Census Bureau accepted delivery of the first UNIVAC computer. ... the first American manufacturers of a commercial computer system.