List of UNIVAC products explained
This is a list of UNIVAC products. It ends in 1986, the year that Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys as a result of a hostile takeover bid[1] launched by Burrough's CEO W. Michael Blumenthal.[2]
The Remington Rand years (1950 to 1955)
Calculating devices
Computer systems
Peripherals
Storage
Display and print
Offline tape handling units
The Sperry Rand years (1955 to 1978)
Calculating devices
Computer systems
Embedded systems
Word machines
- UNIVAC 1106 (half-speed 1108)
- UNIVAC 1100/10 (1106 upgraded with semiconductor memory)
- UNIVAC 1100/20 (1108 upgraded with semiconductor memory)
- UNIVAC 1100/40 (1110 upgraded with semiconductor memory)
Variable word length machines
Byte machines
These machines implemented a variant of the IBM System/360 architecture
Peripherals
Storage
- FH-432 (Flying Head) drum
- FH-880 (Flying Head) drum
- FH-1782 (Flying Head) drum
- FASTRAND drum drive
- RANDEX drum drive[12]
- UNISERVO I tape drive
- UNISERVO II tape drive
- UNISERVO IIA tape drive
- UNISERVO III tape drive
- UNISERVO IIIC tape drive
- UNISERVO VI-C tape drive
- UNISERVO VIII-C tape drive
- UNISERVO 12 tape drive (1600 BPI)
- UNISERVO 16 tape drive (1600 BPI)
- UNISERVO 20 tape drive (1600 BPI)
- UNISERVO 30-36 tape drives (6250 BPI)(OEM from STK)
Display and print
Communication
- UNIVAC BP - Buffer Processor; used as communications front-end to 418 and 490
- UNIVAC CTMC - Communications Terminal Module Controller
- UNIVAC GCS - General Communications System
Software
Operating systems and system software
- BOSS III or Business Oriented Systems Supervisor was the operating system for the UNIVAC III
- EXEC I
- EXEC II
- EXEC 8
Utilities, languages, and development aids
This is too small a list.
Program | Code | Notes |
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| CALL | |
| CSHELL | |
| CTS | |
| ED | |
| FSED | |
| IPF | |
Logically Integrated FORTRAN Translator | LIFT | |
| SSG | |
| TOCED | Edits table of contents, privileged users can read the master file directory and interface with the print system. |
| TIP | |
| UEDIT | |
| UTS-400 | COBOL |
| MAPPER | 4GL[13] |
| PLUS | |
| MFD | |
| SX1100 | UNIX on Exec8, OS1100 and OS2200 |
| CS1100 | Communications Simulator |
| TCL | |
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Applications
The Sperry Corporation years (1978 to 1986)
External links
See main article: frames.
Notes and References
- http://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/28/business/persistence-pays-off-in-burroughs-deal.html Article regarding the hostile takeover in The New York Times
- [Sperry Corporation|Article on Wikipedia on the ''Sperry Corporation'']
- Book: J. E. Thornton . M. Macaulay . D. H. Toth . Proceedings of the May 6-8, 1958, western joint computer conference: Contrasts in computers on XX - IRE-ACM-AIEE '58 (Western) . The Univac® M-460 computer . 1958 . 70–74 . 10.1145/1457769.1457791 . http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/UNIVAC-M-640.html . 24 May 2019 . Association for Computing Machinery. 10278494 .
- Reservations Communications Utilizing a General Purpose Digital Computer . www.acm.org . 1958 . 10.1145/1457720.1457753 . 15 September 2023 . McAvoy . R. A. . 178–183 .
- The Univac Air Lines Reservations System: A Special-Purpose Application of a General- Purpose Computer . www.acm.org . 10.1145/1458043.1458075 . 15 September 2023.
- Web site: J. Presper Eckert and Pat Boone in front of Univac 422 102633139 Computer History Museum . www.computerhistory.org . 24 March 1965 . en . 2018-09-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180920195627/http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102633139 . 2018-09-20 . live .
- Web site: Bowie . Stephen . The monoliths: 17 supercomputers from the '60s . AUX . 26 May 2014 . 11. Technical Electronic Amplifier Code Handler (TEACH), The Patty Duke Show: "The Genius" (1963) . 2018-09-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180920195816/https://aux.avclub.com/the-monoliths-17-supercomputers-from-the-60s-1798269311 . 2018-09-20 . live . Contains link to video of the computer
- Web site: UNIVAC 422 . www.smecc.org . 2018-09-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170627230139/http://smecc.org/univac_422.htm . 2017-06-27 . live .
- Web site: UNIVAC 422 TRNG COMP. Weik. Martin H.. Jan 1964. ed-thelen.org. A Fourth Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems. 2018-09-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20180523210121/http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL64-u.html#UNIVAC-422-TRNG-COMP. 2018-05-23. live.
- Web site: K . Special . Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) - fly me to the Moon . TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND . 1 October 2008 . 2018-09-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180920195643/http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/2008/10/apollo-guidance-computer-agc-fly-me-to.html . 2018-09-20 . live .
- Web site: UNIVAC DIG TRNR. Weik. Martin H.. Jan 1964. ed-thelen.org. A Fourth Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems. 2018-09-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20180523210121/http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL64-u.html#UNIVAC-DIG-TRNR. 2018-05-23. live.
- Haga . Enoch J. . Understanding Automation: PREP FOR COMPUTER TRAINING . The Journal of Business Education . November 1962 . 38 . 2 . 70 . 10.1080/08832323.1962.10116580 . en . 0021-9444.
- Web site: CSDL IEEE Computer Society . 2018-05-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180513224210/https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/afips/1960/5057/00/50570189.pdf . 2018-05-13 . live .
- "MAPPER", Wikipedia, date