PHILADELPHIA -- For two of the men who worked on UNIVAC, the world's first commercial computer, the idea that their legacy would spawn a revolution didn't occur to them at the time. James McGarvey, 77 ...

The UNIVAC had already predicted the 1952 Presidential election. But Remington Rand, the company behind the machine, had bigger things in mind. Like the weather. And making money. The UNIVAC was one ...

Today is the anniversary of a major development in computing history — and it happened right here in Philadelphia. “The ENIAC was intended exclusively for military use,” Adam T. Veres wrote in 2010 ...

In the 1950s, businessman and machines manufacturer Remington Rand introduced America to the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer made in the United States. This particular television commercial ...

The Univac during the 1950s The company that invented the first commercial computer apologized on the eve of its 50th anniversary for any "unintended consequences" of its use. Unisys Corporation ...

This article was initially written in 2009. Sending men to the Moon was not just about building gigantic Saturn V rockets and shooting them off into space. While it was the critical component of the ...