2013年10月10日存储在线翻译：接之前翻译的文章《追溯磁带的历史：一场OOXX的游戏（一）》。面向数据记录的磁质磁带的商业应用始于1951年的Remington Rand UNIVAC。UNIVAC有自己的基于数据记录系统的磁带，称为Uniservo。这个系统是由J Presper Eckert和John Mauchly设计的。

计算突然成为流行文化，与UNIVAC（通用自动计算机）可以说是密不可分，它在当时可以说是家喻户晓的名字。它首开了用同一设计方案生产多台计算机的先河，并从一开始设计就充分考虑了企业应用问题。 尽管Univac不是人类拥有的第一台计算机，但是它确实称得 ...

The UNIVAC had already predicted the 1952 Presidential election. But Remington Rand, the company behind the machine, had bigger things in mind. Like the weather. And making money. The UNIVAC was one ...

70 年前的UNIVAC I 实际上是第二台商用计算机；它有一个液态水银延迟线存储器，可存储1000个字的12个字母数字字符。它以低 ...

首个UNIVAC I是在1951年的6月14日交付。从1951年到1958年，总共交付了46台UNIVAC I计算机。说起UNIVAC，其实还有段历史。它的名字来源于1947年John Mauchly，选择Universal Automatic Computer作为其公司产品的名字。 UNIVAC I一开始被用于美国人口普查，它是使用晶体管的计算机 ...

This article was initially written in 2009. Sending men to the Moon was not just about building gigantic Saturn V rockets and shooting them off into space. While it was the critical component of the ...

BLUE BELL, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Fifty years ago -- on June 14, 1951 -- the U.S. Census Bureau officially put into service what it calls the world's first commercial computer, known as UNIVAC I.

“The white ones are the men and the yellow ones are the women” is the tag line on this odd ad for Univac’s experiemental photochromatic technology. Odd because it was 1969 and drugs were the new ...

Remington Rand's Univac computer was big and expensive. But it built its reputation quickly as a predictor of presidential elections. Photo: U.S. Army View Slideshow __1952: __Television makes its ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Engineers J. Presper Eckert and John ...