UNIVAC 120

The Remington Rand 409 plugboard programmed punch card calculator, designed in 1949, was sold in two models: the UNIVAC 60 (1952) and the UNIVAC 120 (1953). The model number referred to the number of decimal digits of vacuum tube memory storage provided for data. Download high resolution version (836x601, 89 KB)UNIVAC 120 Photo by Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines. ... Download high resolution version (836x601, 89 KB)UNIVAC 120 Photo by Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines. ... The punch card (or Hollerith card) is a recording medium for holding information for use by automated data processing machines. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... In electronics, a vacuum tube (American English) or (thermionic) valve (British English) is a device generally used to amplify, or otherwise modify, a signal. ...

The machine was designed in "The Barn", at 33 Highland Ave. in Rowayton, Connecticut, a building that currently houses the Rowayton Public Library and Community Center. Rowayton is a seaside village located in the city of Norwalk in Fairfield County, Connecticut. ...

These machines were discontinued when the UNIVAC 1004 was introduced. The UNIVAC 1004 was a plugboard-programmed punch card data processing system, introduced in 1962, by Univac. ...

Little more can be said on these machines as UNIVAC destroyed all the records on both the design and production of these machines. This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

See also

• List of UNIVAC products
• History of computing hardware

// The Remington Rand years (1950 to 1955) Calculating devices UNIVAC 60 UNIVAC 120 Computer systems UNIVAC I UNIVAC 1101 UNIVAC 1102 UNIVAC 1103 Peripherals Storage UNISERVO tape drive Display and print UNIVAC High speed printer 600 line/min printer Offline tape handling units UNIPRINTER 10 char/s printer with tape... Computing hardware has been an essential component of the process of calculation and data storage since it became useful for numerical values to be processed and shared. ...

External links

• Rowayton, Connecticut: Birthplace of the World's First Business Computer
• Rowayton Public Library Website
• Universal Automatic Computer Model 60 A Third Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems Report No. 1115, March 1961 by Martin H. Weik
• Universal Autometic Computer Model 120 A Third Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems Report No. 1115, March 1961 by Martin H. Weik