List of UNIVAC products

Summary

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) edit

Calculating devices edit

Computer systems edit

Peripherals edit

Storage edit

Display and print edit

Offline tape handling units edit

The Sperry Rand years (1955 to 1978) edit

Calculating devices edit

Computer systems edit

Embedded systems edit

Word machines edit

Variable word length machines edit

Byte machines edit

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

Peripherals edit

Storage edit

  • FH-432 (Flying Head) drum
  • FH-880 (Flying Head) drum
  • FH-1782 (Flying Head) drum
  • FASTRAND drum drive
  • RANDEX drum drive[12]
  • UNISERVO I tape drive
  • UNISERVO II tape drive
  • UNISERVO IIA tape drive
  • UNISERVO III tape drive
  • UNISERVO IIIC tape drive
  • UNISERVO VI-C tape drive
  • UNISERVO VIII-C tape drive
  • UNISERVO 12 tape drive (1600 BPI)
  • UNISERVO 16 tape drive (1600 BPI)
  • UNISERVO 20 tape drive (1600 BPI)
  • UNISERVO 30-36 tape drives (6250 BPI)(OEM from STK)

Display and print edit

Communication edit

  • 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 edit

Operating systems and system software edit

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

Utilities, languages, and development aids edit

This is too small a list.

Program Code Notes
CALL Macro Processor CALL
CSHELL Command Shell CSHELL
Conversational TimeSharing CTS
Univac Text Editor ED
Full-Screen Editor FSED
Interactive Processing Facility IPF
Logically Integrated FORTRAN Translator LIFT
Symbolic Stream Generator SSG
Table of Contents Editor TOCED Edits table of contents, privileged users can read the master file directory and interface with the print system.[13]
Transaction Interface Package TIP
UEDIT UEDIT
Client Server Development UTS-400 COBOL
MAPPER (Software) MAPPER 4GL[14]
Programming Language for UNISYS Systems PLUS
Master File Directory MFD
SX1100 SX1100 UNIX on Exec8, OS1100 and OS2200
CS1100 CS1100 Communications Simulator
Traffic Control Language TCL

Applications edit

The Sperry Corporation years (1978 to 1986) edit

  • UNIVAC Integrated Scientific Processor (ISP)
  • UNIVAC 90/25
  • UNIVAC 90/30
  • UNIVAC 90/40
  • UNIVAC 90/60
  • UNIVAC 90/70
  • UNIVAC 90/80

References edit

  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 on XX - IRE-ACM-AIEE '58 (Western). Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 70–74. doi:10.1145/1457769.1457791. S2CID 10278494. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Reservations Communications Utilizing a General Purpose Digital Computer". www.acm.org. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  5. ^ "The Univac Air Lines Reservations System: A Special-Purpose Application of a General- Purpose Computer". www.acm.org. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  6. ^
    • "J. Presper Eckert and Pat Boone in front of Univac 422 | 102633139 | Computer History Museum". www.computerhistory.org. 24 March 1965. Archived from the original on 2018-09-20. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
    • Bowie, Stephen (26 May 2014). "The monoliths: 17 supercomputers from the '60s". AUX. 11. Technical Electronic Amplifier Code Handler (TEACH), The Patty Duke Show: "The Genius" (1963). Archived from the original on 2018-09-20. Retrieved 2018-09-20. Contains link to video of the computer
  7. ^ "UNIVAC 422". www.smecc.org. Archived from the original on 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2018-05-13.
  13. ^ "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.
  14. ^ "MAPPER", Wikipedia, date

External links edit

  • A history of Univac computers and Operating Systems
  • UNIVAC CPU Timeline (1950-1980)