Summary: 1951 - It was the first commercial general-use computer. The UNIVAC I was unveiled in Washington DC. It was developed for the US census bureau. It stood 8 foot high and used magnetic tape at 10,000 characters a second.UNIVAC is an acronym for the Universal Automatic Computer. The computer itself was delivered to the United States Census Bureau on March 31st, 1951. UNIVAC I was also used to predict the result of the 1952 Presidential election. UNIVAC I cost around 1.2 million to build, which was a lot larger than their estimated price of $159,000. 46 units were built and delivered. 5,200 vacuum tubes were used to run UNIVAC I. It performed 1,905 operations per second. Want more info on UNIVAC? Check out A Few Good Men From Univac (History of Computing) on Amazon Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for June 14 1938 - The First Superman comic 1985 - Apple lays off 1,200 employees 1997 - Tamapittchi, a cellular phone with a Tamagotchi built into it, is released in Japan 2006 - Google Maps for Enterprise 2009 - #CNNFail
