UNIVAC I

The first computer sold as a product rather than built as a project — the machine that made computing a business.

Core Principles & Analysis

• Eckert and Mauchly, ENIAC's builders, commercialized it in 1951.
• Its CBS forecast of the 1952 Eisenhower landslide made computers publicly famous.
• Remington Rand sold 46 units, at about a million dollars each.