UNIVAC 1 – 1951

UNIVAC-1. The first commercially successful electronic computer, UNIVAC I, was
also the first general purpose computer - designed to handle both numeric and textual
information. It was designed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. The
implementation of this machine marked the real beginning of the computer era.
Remington Rand delivered the first UNIVAC machine to the U.S. Bureau of Census in
1951. This machine used magnetic tape for input.
first successful commercial computer
design was derived from the ENIAC (same developers)
first client = U.S. Bureau of the Census
$1 million
48 systems built