On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:01:46 -0400, RJ Keefer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>BLUE BELL, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Fifty years ago -- on June 14, 1951 -- the
>U.S. Census Bureau officially put into service what it calls the world's
>first commercial computer, known as UNIVAC I.


UNIVAC's failure was they never took advantage of the leadership they had in
the commercial mainframe market and let IBM pass them in public perception
and reality as "the" computer company within a decade. While Big Blue
innovated, UNIVAC was still using funny 90-column cards with round holes as
its main storage medium when I first worked on their machines in 1970.

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