Word: univacs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...together glorious empires. Ling could do all that and make it sound different and better. When making presentations to potential merger partners, he would take a piece of chalk or a felt pen and sketch marvelous projections of future earnings. He sounded like a cross between an evangelist and Univac. Not even the financial experts fully grasped how Ling intended to meet his predictions, but they were eager to advance him money. They wanted to believe...
...salesmen last year wrote more orders for new computers than two of its larger rivals, Honeywell and Univac. It has the industry's second highest profit margin, behind IBM, and on one front Burroughs is even advancing faster than IBM. In a strong market for computer stocks, Burroughs shares last week reached a new high of 208, having climbed 30% so far this year, compared with a 17% increase in IBM's shares...
Equally important, however, has been Norris' penchant to spend money faster than CDC could earn it. Norris, a 60-year-old former Univac general manager, has been determined not to pinch pennies in his drive to challenge IBM. Last year, in order to attract more business, he built six data centers at a cost of $10 million each. When financial aides advised him to build only one center at a time, Norris branded their counsel "chicken-hearted." He has maintained an inventory of more than $300 million worth of computers and peripherals, about twice what the company...
VIETNAMESE who trooped faithfully to the polls across South Viet Nam last week had in many cases to make choices that might have left a Univac smoking. No fewer than 1,297 candidates were vying for 159 seats in the often rambunctious Lower House of the National Assembly. In one Saigon district, for example, voters had to sift through a sheaf of 81 ballots, each printed with a candidate's photograph and symbol, and choose five to seal in a little brown envelope, which then was dropped in a ballot box. In a number of areas, moreover, voters...
...parts of computer technology are "over my head," but in the early 1950s he and Tom Jr. strenuously argued, against the elder Watson's opposition, that IBM's punch-card equipment would soon be outdated by electronic computers, an innovation then dominated by Sperry-Rand's Univac. The younger guard won out, and IBM poured vast resources into its own computer designs. After the corporation introduced the 700 series of computers, its tough-selling teams made those machines and their successors the runaway leaders in a market that grew from infancy to a $9 billion industry over...