Remington-Rand Presents the Univac

lancetexas999 Says:

Oct 24, 2008 - wonder if it will run pacman

oviwolf Says:

Oct 30, 2008 - Ohhh,thanks for this AWESOME video! This computer is such an amazing machine! GREAT!

clydesight Says:

Nov 1, 2008 - FABULOUS video! Our computers history explained. I love these old 50's films. Wouldn't it be cool to see a TV ad, "HI, I'm a MAC and I'm A UNIVAC"? Thanks for the video!

gman4dx266 Says:

Nov 7, 2008 - Nice...Tanks of Mercury! I bet the EPA is all like 'OMG SWEET!'

drl0ve105 Says:

Dec 7, 2008 - Thanks for this video. In the 8th grade(1958) my dad brought home a brochure on the new UNIVAC that the USDA was getting in KC, MO. That brochure and the real thing hooked me - look at all those dials and switches!! I never got to program it, but got to see it in operation while I was programming AUTOCODER on 1401s amd 7074s. We worked in a 3-story building and I was on the 3rd floor. We always new when UNIVAC crashed; the circuit breakers would trip and the lights would dim. Thanks again!

trewlert44 Says:

Dec 13, 2008 - EPA was created in 1970. In the '50's, you could've dumped that mercury in the river nobody could've held you responsible for the damage

WetlandsRemediation Says:

Feb 13, 2009 - He's a UNISMOKER.

n0c1lue Says:

Feb 18, 2009 - this video is amazing because its thesis of furthering mankind's endeavor is thoroughly explained and argued.

ragemanchoo82 Says:

Feb 27, 2009 - Apparently the first Univac had a pricetag of $1 million. o_o

driveinmovienights Says:

Mar 31, 2009 - Excelent video! There is an exibit for UNIVAC at the Boston Museum of Science. I was there recently.

virokill132 Says:

Apr 18, 2009 - i like my quad core

6364gg2 Says:

Apr 28, 2009 - Cool!

ANARCHYdashTVdotCOM Says:

May 1, 2009 - Remington Rand... I think my niece bought that trademark brand name off of ebay.... or was it RCA

Paradiddler45 Says:

May 29, 2009 - That's it? I expected much more...

micahelx28 Says:

Jun 9, 2009 - it was built for 150,000 but sold retail for 1.2 mil -- they sold about 50 of them --

ragemanchoo82 Says:

Jun 13, 2009 - I wonder how long it took to get one set up and running? :P

way2muchenergy Says:

Jun 14, 2009 - That thing's HUGE!!! Watching this in 2009, I want to laugh whenever they mention how "high-tech" it is

MerleOberon Says:

Jun 21, 2009 - In 60 years they'll probably think the same of our computers.....

msdos622wasfun Says:

Jun 26, 2009 - Very interesting video. We've come a long way since then, but the funny thing is we've probably got an even longer way yet to go.

hankCchinaski Says:

Jul 15, 2009 - We are going backwards, friends!

solidstate0 Says:

Jul 31, 2009 - It's interesting to see that the enthusiasm in software construction and planning has all but vanished these days

sebipayne Says:

Sep 30, 2009 - "The only requirement now: is that we tell our computer what to do" lol :D

iamandrewssoul Says:

Sep 30, 2009 - The lesson here, I think, is that however far we think we've advanced we'll still be laughably antiquated to the people who come after us.

shanehoustein Says:

Oct 28, 2009 - "univac is practically immune to error"... it must have been better than Windows Vista!

oostermanju Says:

Nov 5, 2009 - it still takes vista HOURS to do anything -_-