Word: univacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...involved more than 4,000,000 bits for each picture. The poky equipment on Mariner 4 needed 81 hours to make a less detailed picture. After being picked up by NASA's huge, 210-ft. Goldstone radio "ear" in the Mojave Desert, the signals were translated by a Univac 1219 computer back into light and shadow, line by vertical line...
Lewis B. Ward, professor of Business Research and head of the Faculty Committee for the Computing Center, said that the Committee chose the machine which was most economical. The Committee also considered the Univac 1108 and the Control Data Corporation...
...Including Sperry Rand (Univac) with 5.8% of the $5.91 million computer market in 1967, Honeywell with 5.4%, General Electric with 4.1%, RCA with 3%, NCR with 2.4% and Burroughs with 1.8%. Control Data was in fifth place with 3.4%, while IBM held an overwhelming lead with...
...quickly and easily available. And since almost half of those who turned in their ballots will be eligible to vote in November, CHOICE 68 could hardly be dismissed by losers as one more insignificant election on the campus. Indeed, Dr. Carl Hammer, director of scientific and computer services for Univac, saw the exercise as a preview of election techniques of the near future...
Meantime McCarthy could cheer himself with the results of "Choice 68," a computerized presidential-preference poll of U.S. college students. Sponsored by Time Inc. and Sperry Rand's Univac Division, the poll was the largest nationwide pre-election sampling ever taken, with more than 1,000,000 students voting on 1,450 of the nation's campuses. Last week, after computers tabulated results, McCarthy won, with 285,988 votes, followed by Kennedy with 213,832 and Nixon with 197,167. Rockefeller, who was not an active candidate at the time of the voting late last month, collected...