List of UNIVAC products

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This is a list of UNIVAC products. It ends in 1986, the year that Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys as a result of a hostile takeover bid[1] launched by Burrough's CEO W. Michael Blumenthal.[2][circular reference].

The Remington Rand years (1950 to 1955)[]

Calculating devices[]

  • UNIVAC 60
  • UNIVAC 120

Computer systems[]

Peripherals[]

Storage[]

Display and print[]

Offline tape handling units[]

  • UNIPRINTER 10 char/s printer with tape drive
  • UNITYPER keyboard with tape drive
  • UNIVAC Tape to Card converter card punch with tape drive
  • UNIVAC Card to Tape converter card reader with tape drive
  • paper tape reader with tape drive

The Sperry Rand years (1955 to 1978)[]

Calculating devices[]

  • UNIVAC 1004
  • UNIVAC 1005

Computer systems[]

Embedded systems[]

Word machines[]

  • UNIVAC 1106 (half-speed 1108)
  • UNIVAC 1107
  • UNIVAC 1108
  • UNIVAC 1110
  • UNIVAC 1100/10 (1106 upgraded with semiconductor memory)
  • UNIVAC 1100/20 (1108 upgraded with semiconductor memory)
  • UNIVAC 1100/40 (1110 upgraded with semiconductor memory)

Variable word length machines[]

Byte machines[]

These machines implemented a variant of the IBM System/360 architecture

Peripherals[]

Storage[]

  • FH-432 (Flying Head) drum
  • FH-880 (Flying Head) drum
  • FH-1782 (Flying Head) drum
  • FASTRAND drum drive
  • drum drive[10]
  • UNISERVO I tape drive
  • tape drive
  • tape drive
  • tape drive
  • tape drive
  • tape drive
  • tape drive
  • tape drive (1600 BPI)
  • tape drive (1600 BPI)
  • tape drive (1600 BPI)
  • tape drives (6250 BPI)(OEM from STK)

Display and print[]

Communication[]

  • UNIVAC BP - Buffer Processor; used as communications front-end to 418 and 490
  • UNIVAC CTMC - Communications Terminal Module Controller
  • UNIVAC GCS - General Communications System

Software[]

Operating systems and system software[]

  • or Business Oriented Systems Supervisor was the operating system for the UNIVAC III
  • EXEC I
  • EXEC II
  • EXEC 8

Utilities, languages, and development aids[]

This is too small a list.

Program Code Notes
CALL
CSHELL
CTS
Univac Text Editor ED
FSED
IPF
Logically Integrated FORTRAN Translator LIFT
Symbolic Stream Generator SSG
TOCED Edits table of contents, privileged users can read the master file directory and interface with the print system.[11]
TIP
UEDIT
UTS-400 COBOL
MAPPER (Software) MAPPER 4GL[12]
PLUS
MFD
SX1100 UNIX on Exec8, OS1100 and OS2200
CS1100 Communications Simulator
TCL

Applications[]

The Sperry Corporation years (1978 to 1986)[]

  • UNIVAC 90/25
  • UNIVAC 90/30
  • UNIVAC 90/40
  • UNIVAC 90/60
  • UNIVAC 90/70
  • UNIVAC 90/80

References[]

  1. ^ Article regarding the hostile takeover in The New York Times
  2. ^ Article on Wikipedia on the Sperry Corporation
  3. ^ J. E. Thornton; M. Macaulay; D. H. Toth (1958). "The Univac M-460 computer". Proceedings of the May 6–8, 1958, Western Joint Computer Conference: Contrasts in Computers. Association for Computing Machinery: 70–74. doi:10.1145/1457769.1457791. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  4. ^
  5. ^ "UNIVAC 422". www.smecc.org. Archived from the original on 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  6. ^ Weik, Martin H. (Jan 1964). "UNIVAC 422 TRNG COMP". ed-thelen.org. A Fourth Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems. Archived from the original on 2018-05-23. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  7. ^ K, Special (1 October 2008). "Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) - fly me to the Moon". TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND. Archived from the original on 2018-09-20. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  8. ^ Weik, Martin H. (Jan 1964). "UNIVAC DIG TRNR". ed-thelen.org. A Fourth Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems. Archived from the original on 2018-05-23. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  9. ^ Haga, Enoch J. (November 1962). "Understanding Automation: PREP FOR COMPUTER TRAINING". The Journal of Business Education. 38 (2): 70. doi:10.1080/08832323.1962.10116580. ISSN 0021-9444.
  10. ^ "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2018-05-13.
  11. ^ "A Collection of Utility Processors and Libraries for Unisys 2200 ClearPath Mainframes". Leist. Archived from the original on 30 July 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  12. ^ "MAPPER", Wikipedia, date

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