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n2ize
03-30-2011, 03:45 PM
A TV spot advertising the state of the art modern Remington-Rand UNIVAC computer.

UNIVAC Ad (http://www.archive.org/details/Univac_Commercial_Classic_Old_Vintage)
NQ6U
03-30-2011, 03:52 PM
Wow! 2K FLOPS! What blazing speed!

(The cell phone in my pocket can do better than that by a wide margin.)
n2ize
03-30-2011, 06:02 PM
Wow! 2K FLOPS! What blazing speed!

(The cell phone in my pocket can do better than that by a wide margin.)

Yeah, but by 1950's standards 2K was blazing.
NA4BH
03-30-2011, 09:41 PM
Rudy built it
NQ6U
03-30-2011, 10:17 PM
Rudy built it

Out of old Motorola radio parts? Where did he put the APU?
kb2vxa
03-31-2011, 04:34 PM
It's in the vacuum cleaner between the crystal holder and tuning capacitor.