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{{Short description|First general-purpose computer designed for business application (1951)}} [[File:Univac I Census dedication.jpg|thumb|A UNIVAC I at the [[United States Census Bureau]] in 1951]] [[File:Museum of Science, Boston, MA - IMG 3163.JPG|thumb|UNIVAC I operator's console]] [[Image:UNIVAC-I-BRL61-0977.jpg|thumb|UNIVAC I at Franklin Life Insurance Company]] The '''UNIVAC I''' ('''Universal Automatic Computer I''') was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer design for business application produced in the [[United States]]. It was designed principally by [[J. Presper Eckert]] and [[John Mauchly]], the inventors of the [[ENIAC]]. Design work was started by their company, [[Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation]] (EMCC), and was completed after the company had been acquired by [[Remington Rand]] (which later became part of [[Sperry Corporation|Sperry]], now [[Unisys]]). In the years before successor models of the UNIVAC I appeared, the machine was simply known as "the '''UNIVAC'''".<ref name="Johnson, L.R. pp.32,42">Johnson, L.R., "Coming to grips with Univac," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 32, 42, April–June 2006. {{doi|10.1109/MAHC.2006.27}}</ref> The first UNIVAC was accepted by the [[United States Census Bureau]] on March 31, 1951, and was dedicated on June 14 that year.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/14/computing.anniversary/ Reference: CNN's feature on the 50th anniversary of the UNIVAC].</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-f7NIGeIU2EC&q=univac+1951&pg=PA190|title=Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946–1957|last=Norberg|first=Arthur Lawrence|date=2005|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262140904|pages=190, 217|language=en}}</ref> The fifth machine (built for the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|U.S. Atomic Energy Commission]]) was used by [[CBS]] to predict the result of the [[U.S. presidential election, 1952|1952 presidential election]]. With a sample of a mere 5.5% of the voter turnout, it famously predicted an [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] landslide.<ref name="Lukoff_1979">{{cite book |author-last=Lukoff |author-first=Herman |author-link=Herman Lukoff |title=From Dits to Bits: A personal history of the electronic computer |date=1979 |publisher=Robotics Press |location=Portland, Oregon |isbn=0-89661-002-0 |lccn=79-90567 |pages=127–131}}</ref>
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