The most famous Univac product was the UNIVAC Imainframe computer of 1951. It came into the limelight with a bang when it predicted the outcome of the U.S. presidential election the following year.
In 1953 or 1954 Remington Rand merged their tabulating machine division in Norwalk, Connecticut, the Engineering Research Associates "scientific" computer division, and the Univac "business" computer division into a single division under the Univac name.
In 1955 Remington Rand merged with Sperry Corporation to become Sperry Rand. The Univac division of Remington Rand was renamed Sperry Univac.
In 1978 Sperry Rand decided to concentrate on its computing interests and unrelated divisions were sold. The company dropped the Rand from its title and reverted back to Sperry Corporation.
In 1978SperryRand, an old fashioned conglomerate of disharmonious divisions (computers, typewriters, office furniture, hay balers, manure spreaders, gyroscopes, avionics, radar, electric razors), decided to concentrate on its computing interests and unrelated divisions were sold.
When SperryRand replaced the core memory with semiconductor memory in 1975, the same machine was released as the UNIVAC 1100/10.
When SperryRand replaced the core memory with semiconductor memory in 1975, the same machine was released as the UNIVAC 1100/20.
Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century.
Sperry also was the creator of the Ball Turret Gun that was mounted under the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, made famous by the Memphis Belle.
The takeover came about even after SperryRand used a "poison pill" in the form of a major share price hike to dissuade the hostile bid, as a result of which Burroughs had to borrow much more from the banks than was anticipated in order to complete the bid.
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