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  • His work at the conventions in the summer of 1952 was so successful that afterward he hired an agent for the first time; that November he shared top billing for CBS election night coverage with a high-tech phenom called Univac, billed as an "all-electronic computer."

    Walter Cronkite, Broadcasting Legend, Dies at 92 2009

  • His work at the conventions in the summer of 1952 was so successful that afterward he hired an agent for the first time; that November he shared top billing for CBS election night coverage with a high-tech phenom called Univac, billed as an "all-electronic computer."

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2009

  • Walking in that door, on the fourth floor of the Student Center, I was an 18-year-old who had never actually composed on a typewriter in my life (this was the stone age, when computers were something called "Univac," which took up whole rooms and spit out strange punch cards that nobody on the planet understood, but some pretended they did).

    No Thanks, I'll Stick to Juicy Fruit 2006

  • Walking in that door, on the fourth floor of the Student Center, I was an 18-year-old who had never actually composed on a typewriter in my life (this was the stone age, when computers were something called "Univac," which took up whole rooms and spit out strange punch cards that nobody on the planet understood, but some pretended they did).

    November 2006 2006

  • I’ve done ads for Univac that said basically the same thing, trying to use the notion of Univac versus IBM, but not as well.

    From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010

  • I’ve done ads for Univac that said basically the same thing, trying to use the notion of Univac versus IBM, but not as well.

    From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010

  • I’ve done ads for Univac that said basically the same thing, trying to use the notion of Univac versus IBM, but not as well.

    From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010

  • But the credit for insight belonged to the political experts and mathematicians who told the Univac what to do.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The Univac certainly was a nicely wrought piece of engineering, one of the two or three fastest and most reliable then existing.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The Columbia Broadcasting System got into this peculiar business back in 1952, using a Remington Rand Univac.

    Boing Boing 2009

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