Remington Rand Univac

Remington Rand Univac (usually referred to simply as Univac) was the name adopted by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, after it had been taken over as a division of Remington Rand, in 1950; the name was almost certainly was taken from the well-known UNIVAC I, the first American commercial computer, which had been created by Eckert-Mauchly. After Engineering Research Associates was acquired by Remington Rand in 1951, it too was folded (somewhat turbulently) into the Univac division. Only after the merger into Sperry Rand, in 1955, was some rationality introduced.

Further reading

• Arthur Lawrence Norberg; Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand; MIT Press, Cambridge, 2005
• David E. Lundstrom, A Few Good Men from Univac, MIT Press, July 1987 - excellent work which covers the entire story, from the ERA side

External links

• Univac - documentation at Bitsavers
  • Univac Products - St. Paul - survey of all the Univac products, including those created by ERA
  • Large Scale Digital Computers: An Annotated Bibliography - a thorough listing of contemporary publications prepared by Remington Rand Univac in 1956
• VIP Club - Information Technology (IT) Pioneers - contains a wealth of Univac-related content
  • Univac Computers I Have Known - interesting first-person history
  • UNIVAC® Memories - index to a vast amount of material, particularly UNIVAC 1100 series