Friday, March 30, 2012

On This Day in 1951

Remington Rand sells the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. 5,200 vacuum tubes, weighed 29,000 lbs (13 metric tons), consumed 125 kW in electric. The 'Geek Squad' used shopping carts filled with vacuum tubes to keep the thing running back in the day.
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