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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1952, a UNIVAC (universal automatic computer) I mainframe computer was used to predict the result of the US presidential election. After inventing the ENIAC and BINAC, J Presper Eckert and John ...

“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 ...

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 ...