• The UNIVAC Solid State was a magnetic drum-based solid-state computer announced by Sperry Rand in December 1958 as a response to the IBM 650. It was one...
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    existing UNIVAC I programs for both code and data. The UNIVAC II also added some instructions to the UNIVAC I's instruction set. The UNIVAC Solid State was...
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  • quinary bit. The machine was sold in the two models UNIVAC 60 and UNIVAC 120. The UNIVAC Solid State uses four bits: one bi bit (5), three binary coded...
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    with semiconductor memory in 1975. The UNIVAC 1107 was the first solid-state member of Sperry Univac's UNIVAC 1100 series of computers, introduced in...
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  • [circular reference] UNIVAC 40 UNIVAC 60 UNIVAC 120 UNIVAC I UNIVAC 1101 UNIVAC 1102 UNIVAC 1103 UNIVAC 1104 UNISERVO tape drive UNIVAC High speed printer...
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    decimal), introduced in 1959, addressed the lower end of the market. The UNIVAC Solid State (a two-address computer, signed 10-digit decimal words) was announced...
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    The UNIVAC 1103 or ERA 1103, a successor to the UNIVAC 1101, is a computer system designed by Engineering Research Associates and built by the Remington...
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  • Reference Library. IBM. 1962. GA22-7003-6. Retrieved May 8, 2024. UNIVAC® Solid-state 80 Computer (PDF). Sperry Rand Corporation. 1959. U1742.1r3. Retrieved...
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    A solid-state drive (SSD) is a type of solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuits to store data persistently. It is sometimes called semiconductor...
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    The UNIVAC LARC, short for the Livermore Advanced Research Computer, is a mainframe computer designed to a requirement published by Edward Teller in order...
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  • Newsletter. 11 (3): 1. Jul 1959. "Univac Solid State 80/90 Magnetic Amplifier and Experimental Board" Scarrott See UNIVAC Solid State for one example. Gordon Scarrott...
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  • reached the market, the best known examples being the mostly-magnetic UNIVAC Solid State (1959) and the mostly transistorized English Electric KDF9 (1964)...
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    Only one large-scale mag amp machine was put into production, the UNIVAC Solid State, but a number of contemporary late-1950s/early-1960s computers used...
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    decimal include the ENIAC, IBM NORC, IBM 650, IBM 1620, IBM 7070, UNIVAC Solid State 80. In these machines, the basic unit of data was the decimal digit...
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    inspired almost every Japanese computer company. Electrologica X1 TX-2 UNIVAC Solid State (partially transistorized) Philco Transac S-1000 scientific computer-...
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    Research Foundation and Remington Rand came to an agreement to install a Univac Solid State 80 allowing Purdue to be the first university to schedule its students'...
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    the use of magnetic tape to store large volumes of data in compact form (UNIVAC I) and the introduction of random access secondary storage (IBM RAMAC 305)...
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  • magnetic amplifiers for computer use. The US Air Force later contracted Univac, who had purchased ERA, to build the same basic architecture using transistors...
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    number of applications, typically in aerospace. It was used in the UNIVAC 1110 and UNIVAC 9000 series computers, the Viking program that sent landers to Mars...
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  • range of 670 nanoseconds, but was very expensive to produce. In 1962, the UNIVAC 1107, intended for the civilian marketplace, used thin-film memory only...
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  • L-90 series (silicon planar epitaxial semiconductor IC) 1963 UNIVAC 1824 Autonetics D37 (Solid Circuit, Texas Instruments) 1965 Apollo Guidance Computer...
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    memory (ROM) for computers. It was used in the UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) and the UNIVAC II, developed by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation...
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    sensitive components by then the computer systems manufacturer, Sperry Univac. Field repairs to and handling of ESD printed circuit boards (PCBs) were...
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  • areal density and capacity per device. The first magnetic tape drive, the Univac Uniservo, recorded at the density of 128 bit/in on a half-inch magnetic...
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    They were eventually purchased by Remington Rand and merged into their UNIVAC department. Many of the company founders later left to form Control Data...
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  • time-sharing mainframe computers. Some of such earlier examples include UNIVAC, MULTICS, and UNIX. Punched tape Punched card Magnetic tape Floppy disk...
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  • AN/TSQ-96 Bomb Directing Central (category 1965 establishments in New York (state))
    the conical scan Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central and had a solid state Univac 1219B computer with punch tape reader (Mark 152 fire control computer)...
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    secondary storage as for example various IBM drum storage drives and the UNIVAC FASTRAND series of drums. Drums were displaced as primary computer memory...
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    hardware starting at 1960 is marked by the conversion from vacuum tube to solid-state devices such as transistors and then integrated circuit (IC) chips. Around...
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  • Eckert in the mid-1940s for use in computers such as the EDVAC and the UNIVAC I. Eckert and John Mauchly applied for a patent for a delay-line memory...
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