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  UNIVAC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The UNIVAC division of Remington Rand was renamed the Univac division of Sperry Rand.
The UNIVAC 1103 was a successor to the UNIVAC 1101 introduced in 1953.
The UNIVAC 1105 was the successor to the 1103A, and was introduced in 1958.
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 UNIVAC 1103A
The UNIVAC 1103A was an upgraded version of the UNIVAC 1103 introduced by Sperry Rand in March, 1956.
The UNIVAC 1103A had up to 12,288 words of 36 bit magnetic core memory, in one to three banks of 4,096 words each.
Fixed point numbers had a 1 bit sign and a 35 bit value, with negative values represented in one's complement format.
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 UNIVAC 1105 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The UNIVAC 1105 was a follow-on computer to the UNIVAC 1103A introduced by Sperry Rand in September, 1958.
The UNIVAC 1105 had either 8,192 or 12,288 words of 36 bit magnetic core memory, in two or three banks of 4,096 words each.
The UNIVAC 1105 used 21 types of vacuum tubes, 11 types of diodes, 10 types of transistors, and 3 types of cores.
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 UNIVAC 1103 - ExampleProblems.com
The UNIVAC 1103 or ERA 1103, a successor to the UNIVAC 1101, was a computer system designed by Engineering Research Associates and built by the Remington Rand corporation in October, 1953.
The UNIVAC 1103 had 1024 words of 36 bit Williams tube memory (first commercial computer to use random access memory).
The successor machine was the UNIVAC 1103A or Univac Scientific, which improved upon the design by replacing the unreliable Williams tube memory with magnetic core memory, adding hardware floating point instructions, and a hardware interrupt feature.
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 OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : HISTORY / detailed info
The Univac Real-Time System made it possible for the first time for management to monitor the course of actual events continuously, to compare this course with expected trends, and to correct to meet the up-to-date minute situation.
She went back and forth among institutions in the military, private industry, business, and academe, and in all these places she was regarded as one of the most incisive strategic "futurists" in the world of computing.
At that time she was housed in the pentagon and we worked together obtaining small Univac test computers for her Navy Research Lab.
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The Univac 120 may be adjusted at the time of installation to operate from 208, 220, or 230 volts, alternating current, providing the regulation of the power source can be held to plus or minus 5,% of any of the above voltages.
The air conditioner is included in the Electronic Computing Unit of the Univac 120 to assist in maintaining that unit at the most desirable operating temperature.
Univac 1105 Computing System MANUFACTURER Remington Rand Univac Division Sperry Rand Corporation Photo by Remington Rand Univac APPLICATIONS Manufacturer System is used for both scientific and commercial applications, for example, satellite tracking and trajectory calculations, linear programming, logictic scheduling, inventory control, and census.
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 Univac_1103 info here at en.getsearchinformation.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
El UNIVAC ten a una memoria de palabras de bits cada una implementada f sicamente con tubos de Williams.
The UNIVAC had words of bit Williams tube memory.
Content type text html random number is The UNIVAC had words of bit Williams tube memory.
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 Univac - Dusty Decks » Blog Archive » Overdrive for UNIVAC I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Encyclopedia subject: 'UNIVAC 1103A' The UNIVAC 1103A or Univac Scientific was an upgraded version of the UNIVAC 1103 UNIVAC 1103 quick summary:
UNIVAC (from computer) After leaving the Moore School, Eckert and Mauchly struggled to obtain capital to build their latest design, a computer they called
It announced on June 14, 1951, the sale of UNIVAC I to the Census Bureau.
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 The Machine Room :: Univac :: UNIVAC 1103A :: Technical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The UNIVAC 1103A was a 36 bits binary computer, using one's complement arithmetic.
The UNIVAC 1103A ran on a 500 KHz clock.
Both the core and drum memories were directly addressable: addresses 0 through 027777 were in core memory and 040000 through 077777 were on the drum.
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 OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : HISTORY / detailed info
The UNIVAC 1103A Scientific Computer was the first computer to have such a memory.
The UNIVAC 1107 Computer was the first to use thin film storage for the ultra-high speed portion of its memory.
The discussion so far has dealt largely with improvements in the hardware, but there are other approaches to increasing the efficiency and general usefulness of a computer.
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 Use, Inc. Records
Four prospective users of UNIVAC 1103A computers and Sperry-UNIVAC representatives met in Los Angeles in December 1955 to form UNIVAC Scientific Exchange (USE), a user's group for large scale UNIVAC scientific computers.
In 1964, the term "UNIVAC Large-Scale Scientific Computers" was adopted to refer to a general type of computer rather than a specific model (the 1103A).
USE cooperated with the UNIVAC User's Association (UUA) [UUA later became America's UNIVAC User's Association] on several joint conferences in the mid-1960s.
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These documents have been accumulated from 30 years of working with Univac, Sperry Univac and Unisys.
Most were saved from being trashed (or from the trash) during the frequent office moves that any large bureaucracy seems to generate and the associated pressure on the movees to get rid of their 'old junk'.
After leaving Durham in 1980, my only regret is that I didn't return and buy the stacks of old IBM manuals which were lying around in a disorganised heap.
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 Development, round II
Short-code (which would by today's standards be classified as a type of assembler) was available for UNIVAC machines by October 1952 thanks to Logan, Schmit, and Tonik.
By 1955 she released A2 - which was popular on UNIVAC computers.
John Backus (et al.) at IBM developed: 1] Speedcoding in 1953 for the 701 2] FORTRAN starting in 1954 (which took 18 person years to develop, and was released as Fortran I in 1956/57) 3] served on the international committee that developed Algol (starting in 1959 but continuing through the 60s).
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 List of Univac products - Internet-Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Find list of univac products and more at Lycos Search.
Read about list of univac products in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
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 The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages
In December of 1955 the desire was expressed by several 1103A purchasers to form a cooperative organization of 1103A users.
Investigations of existing routines were initiated to determine the value of adapting such routines to the 1103A.
In December 1955, four prospective users of UNIVAC 1103A computers and company representatives met in Los Angeles to organize the userandquot;s group for large-scale UNIVAC scientific computers, UNIVAC Scientific Exchange, or USE.
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 UNISYS-History
Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were the designers and builders of the ENIAC (1946) and UNIVAC (1951), two of the most famous names in early digital computers.
The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, now absorbed by Remington Rand, became its "UNIVAC Division." For a while, the whole company was promoted in advertisements as "Remington Rand UNIVAC" since the name "UNIVAC" had become synonymous with computers.
UNIVAC 1 - At the Census Bureau (1951)
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 Learn more about List of Univac products in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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 Programming
Atlas is an emulator for the Univac Scientific 1103A.
The emulator runs as an interactive, command line program and interprets binary 1103A machine code stored in simulated core/drum memory.
Facilities provided by the emulation include direct entry of machine code in octal form, breakpoints, disassembly, and manual step debugging.
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 Dusty Decks » Simulators
“The UNIVAC I was the first commercially available computer, and I programmed it between 1957 and 1963.
Leif Jon Harcke developed the Atlas emulator for the Univac Scientific 1103A.
Paul Pierce developed this simulator for the IBM 709 and 7090 computers.
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 sci.crypt: Re: C vs. fortran or C++ vs. Ada
tree goes from the Univac 1103A to the CDC1604,...
Re: Question about the history of EXEC 8, OS 1100, OS 2200, etc.
Earlier in this string someone made reference to A history of Univac...
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 Engineering Research Associates (ERA) - Remington Rand - Sperry Rand Records
Burrell was involved in such projects as the ERA 1101, ERA 1103, the UNIVAC File Computer, NIKE-X, and XU-71.
In 1956, Hill was placed in charge of the UNIVAC project.
Kershaw left Sperry Univac to work in management for Control Data Corporation and later for Control Data's subsidiary, Control Data Worldtech.
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 Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
Energy Citations Database (ECD) Document #4112837 - FANTASIA AND TRIPRODSHIELDING CODES FOR THE 1103A UNIVAC.
Codes were developed for the 1103A Univac (FANTASIA).
FANTASIA computes neutron transmission through laminated slab shields and slowing down density within the shields by Monte Carlo methods.
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Warren P. Burrell's files document his activities and involvement in many projects, including the ERA 1101, ERA 1103, the UNIVAC File Computer, and NIKE-X. The majority of the materials consist of technical reports, blueprints, notes, and correspondence.
Jay A. Kershaw's files include day files and memoranda related to his work as peripherals manager on the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) at Sperry Univac as well as documentation of his work on other projects at Sperry Univac in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The event was organized by and held at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, on September 9 and 10, 1986.
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 The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages
Interpretive package for UNIVAC 1103A by Lockheed MSD
Bemer, R. "The Status of Automatic Programming for Scientific Problems" view detailsAbstract: A catalogue of automatic coding systems that are either operational or in the process of development together with brief descriptions of some of the more important onesExtract: Summary
Klaus G. Saur and the staff of Verlag Dokumentation for their publishing work.
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