List of UNIVAC products
This is a list of UNIVAC products. It ends in 1986, the year that Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys as a result of a hostile takeover bid[1] launched by Burrough's CEO W. Michael Blumenthal.[2][circular reference]
The Remington Rand years (1950 to 1955)
[edit]Calculating devices
[edit]Computer systems
[edit]Peripherals
[edit]Storage
[edit]Display and print
[edit]- UNIVAC High speed printer 600 line/min printer
Offline tape handling units
[edit]- UNIPRINTER 10 char/s printer with tape drive
- UNITYPER keyboard with tape drive
- UNIVAC Tape to Card converter card punch with tape drive
- UNIVAC Card to Tape converter card reader with tape drive
- UNIVAC Paper Tape to Tape converter paper tape reader with tape drive
The Sperry Rand years (1955 to 1978)
[edit]Calculating devices
[edit]Computer systems
[edit]Embedded systems
[edit]- AN/USQ-17 – the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) or M-460[3]
- AN/USQ-20 – updated NTDS, aka UNIVAC 1206 or G-40
- AN/UYK-5 18-bit (octal) digital CPU Military System (Navy/Marines) used for logistics/pay/maintenance management (Navy Shipboard, Marines Portable)
- AN/UYK-7 – multiprocessor for Aegis. 32-bit replacement for the Naval Tactical Data System, derived from UNIVAC 1108
- AN/UYK-8 – dual processor version of the Naval Tactical Data System
- AN/UYK-20
- AN/UYK-43 – replaced and shared its instruction set with the AN/UYK-7
- AN/UYK-44 – replaced and shared its instruction set with the AN/UYK-20
- UNIVAC 1218 – real-time computer
- UNIVAC 1230 – later, faster (2×) version of the AN/USQ-20 (memory size and I/O were identical)
Word machines
[edit]- LARC
- UNIVAC File Computer - Used by Eastern Air Lines in an early Reservation system. [4] [5]
- UNIVAC Solid State
- UNIVAC II
- UNIVAC III
- UNIVAC 418 – real-time computer
- UNIVAC 418-II – real-time computer
- UNIVAC 418-III – real-time computer
- UNIVAC 422[6][7][8] - Univac Digital Trainer,[9][10] part of the Programmed Educational Package (Prep)[11]
- UNIVAC 490 – commercial adaptation of AN/USQ real-time system
- UNIVAC 492
- UNIVAC 494
- UNIVAC 494-MAPS – The first Multi-Associated Processor System - not made available commercially
- UNIVAC 1103A
- UNIVAC 1104
- UNIVAC 1105
- UNIVAC 1100/2200 series:
- UNIVAC 1106 (half-speed 1108)
- UNIVAC 1107
- UNIVAC 1108
- UNIVAC 1110
- UNIVAC 1100/10 (1106 upgraded with semiconductor memory)
- UNIVAC 1100/20 (1108 upgraded with semiconductor memory)
- UNIVAC 1100/40 (1110 upgraded with semiconductor memory)
- UNIVAC 1100/82A
- UNIVAC 1100/181
Variable word length machines
[edit]Byte machines
[edit]These machines implemented a variant of the IBM System/360 architecture
- UNIVAC 9000 series
- UNIVAC 9200
- UNIVAC 9300
- UNIVAC 9400
- UNIVAC 9480
Peripherals
[edit]Storage
[edit]- FH-432 (Flying Head) drum
- FH-880 (Flying Head) drum
- FH-1782 (Flying Head) drum
- FASTRAND drum drive
- RANDEX drum drive[12]
- UNISERVO I tape drive
- UNISERVO II tape drive
- UNISERVO IIA tape drive
- UNISERVO III tape drive
- UNISERVO IIIC tape drive
- UNISERVO VI-C tape drive
- UNISERVO VIII-C tape drive
- UNISERVO 12 tape drive (1600 BPI)
- UNISERVO 16 tape drive (1600 BPI)
- UNISERVO 20 tape drive (1600 BPI)
- UNISERVO 30-36 tape drives (6250 BPI)(OEM from STK)
Display and print
[edit]Communication
[edit]- UNIVAC BP - Buffer Processor; used as communications front-end to 418 and 490
- UNIVAC CTMC - Communications Terminal Module Controller
- UNIVAC GCS - General Communications System
Software
[edit]Operating systems and system software
[edit]- BOSS III or Business Oriented Systems Supervisor was the operating system for the UNIVAC III
- EXEC I
- EXEC II
- EXEC 8
Utilities, languages, and development aids
[edit]This is too small a list.
| Program | Code | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| CALL Macro Processor | CALL | |
| CSHELL Command Shell | CSHELL | |
| Conversational TimeSharing | CTS | |
| Univac Text Editor | ED | |
| Full-Screen Editor | FSED | |
| Interactive Processing Facility | IPF | |
| Logically Integrated FORTRAN Translator | LIFT | |
| Symbolic Stream Generator | SSG | |
| Table of Contents Editor | TOCED | Edits table of contents, privileged users can read the master file directory and interface with the print system.[13] |
| Transaction Interface Package | TIP | |
| UEDIT | UEDIT | |
| Client Server Development | UTS-400 | COBOL |
| MAPPER (Software) | MAPPER | 4GL[14] |
| Programming Language for UNISYS Systems | PLUS | |
| Master File Directory | MFD | |
| SX1100 | SX1100 | UNIX on Exec8, OS1100 and OS2200 |
| CS1100 | CS1100 | Communications Simulator |
| Traffic Control Language | TCL |
Applications
[edit]The Sperry Corporation years (1978 to 1986)
[edit]- UNIVAC 1100/60
- UNIVAC 1100/70
- UNIVAC 1100/80
- UNIVAC 1100/90
- UNIVAC 90/25
- UNIVAC 90/30
- UNIVAC 90/40
- UNIVAC 90/60
- UNIVAC 90/70
- UNIVAC 90/80
References
[edit]- ^ Article regarding the hostile takeover in The New York Times
- ^ Article on Wikipedia on the Sperry Corporation
- ^ J. E. Thornton; M. Macaulay; D. H. Toth (1958). "The Univac® M-460 computer". Proceedings of the May 6-8, 1958, western joint computer conference: Contrasts in computers on XX - IRE-ACM-AIEE '58 (Western). Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 70–74. doi:10.1145/1457769.1457791. S2CID 10278494. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- ^ McAvoy, R. A. (1958). "Reservations Communications Utilizing a General Purpose Digital Computer". www.acm.org: 178–183. doi:10.1145/1457720.1457753. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
- ^ "The Univac Air Lines Reservations System: A Special-Purpose Application of a General- Purpose Computer". www.acm.org. doi:10.1145/1458043.1458075. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
- ^
- "J. Presper Eckert and Pat Boone in front of Univac 422 | 102633139 | Computer History Museum". www.computerhistory.org. 24 March 1965. Archived from the original on 2018-09-20. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
- Bowie, Stephen (26 May 2014). "The monoliths: 17 supercomputers from the '60s". AUX. 11. Technical Electronic Amplifier Code Handler (TEACH), The Patty Duke Show: "The Genius" (1963). Archived from the original on 2018-09-20. Retrieved 2018-09-20. Contains link to video of the computer
- ^ "UNIVAC 422". www.smecc.org. Archived from the original on 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
- ^ Weik, Martin H. (Jan 1964). "UNIVAC 422 TRNG COMP". ed-thelen.org. A Fourth Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems. Archived from the original on 2018-05-23. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
- ^ K, Special (1 October 2008). "Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) - fly me to the Moon". TO THE MOON, MARS, AND BEYOND. Archived from the original on 2018-09-20. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
- ^ Weik, Martin H. (Jan 1964). "UNIVAC DIG TRNR". ed-thelen.org. A Fourth Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems. Archived from the original on 2018-05-23. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
- ^ Haga, Enoch J. (November 1962). "Understanding Automation: PREP FOR COMPUTER TRAINING". The Journal of Business Education. 38 (2): 70. doi:10.1080/08832323.1962.10116580. ISSN 0021-9444.
- ^ "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2018-05-13.
- ^ "A Collection of Utility Processors and Libraries for Unisys 2200 ClearPath Mainframes". Leist. Archived from the original on 30 July 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ "MAPPER", Wikipedia, date
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