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.

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 ...

There are two UNIVAC 1219B computers that have survived since the 1960s and one of them is even operational. [Nathan Farlow] wanted to run a Minecraft server on it, so he did. After a lot of work, ...

SHORELINE — In its heyday, Shoreline Univac was feared. Its football teams won Seattle city championships and some of its players went on to college or NFL careers. The once great Shoreline-based ...

PHILADELPHIA -- For two of the men who worked on UNIVAC, the world's first commercial computer, the idea that their legacy would spawn a revolution didn't occur to them at the time. James McGarvey, 77 ...

Even if you aren’t a Disney fan, you probably know about EPCOT — Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow — a Disney attraction that promised a glimpse of the future. [ErnieTech] takes a glimpse ...

LAKE FOREST PARK — As people filed into the Lake City Elks Lodge, old friends greeted each other and memories flooded back. About 100 people gathered Aug. 12 for a reunion dinner to celebrate the 50th ...

The 1969 Neiman Marcus catalog included a futuristic product called the Honeywell Kitchen Computer. The red and white trapezoidal machine came equipped with an H316 minicomputer, a pedestal, a cutting ...

“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 ...

__1952: __Television makes its first foray into predicting a presidential election based on computer analysis of early returns. The Univac computer makes an amazingly accurate projection that the ...