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 very hostile takeover bid [1] launched by Burrough's CEO W. Michael Blumenthal[2].

The Remington Rand years (1950 to 1955)

Calculating devices

Computer systems

Storage

Display and print

Offline tape handling units

The Sperry Rand years (1955 to 1978)

Calculating devices

Embedded systems

Word machines

Variable word length machines

Byte machines

These machines implemented a variant of the IBM System/360 architecture

Storage

  • FH-432 (Flying Head) drum
  • FH-880 (Flying Head) drum
  • FH-1782 (Flying Head) drum
  • FASTRAND drum drive
  • RANDEX drum drive[10]
  • 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 (6250BPI)(OEM from STK)

Display and print

Communication

  • UNIVAC BP - Buffer Processor; used as communications front-end to 418 and 490
  • UNIVAC CTMC - Communications Terminal Module Controller
  • UNIVAC GCS - General Communications System

Operating systems and system software

  • 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

This is too small a list.

Program Code Notes
CALL Macro ProcessorCALL
CSHELL Command ShellCSHELL
Conversational TimeSharingCTS
Univac Text EditorED
Full-Screen EditorFSED
Interactive Processing FacilityIPF
Logically Integrated FORTRAN TranslatorLIFT
Symbolic Stream GeneratorSSG
Table of Contents EditorTOCEDEdits table pf contents, privileged users can read the master file directory and interface with the print system.[11]
Transaction Interface PackageTIP
UEDITUEDIT
Client Server DevelopmentUTS-400COBOL
MAPPER (Software)MAPPER4GL [12]
Programming Language for UNISYS SystemsPLUS
Master File DirectoryMFD
SX1100SX1100UNIX on Exec8, OS1100 and OS2200
CS1100CS1100Communications Simulator
Traffic Control LanguageTCL

Applications

The Sperry Corporation years (1978 to 1986)

  • UNIVAC 90/25
  • UNIVAC 90/30
  • UNIVAC 90/40
  • UNIVAC 90/60
  • UNIVAC 90/70
  • UNIVAC 90/80
  • UNIVAC Integrated Scientific Processor (ISP)

References

  1. Article regarding the hostile takeover in The New York Times
  2. Article on Wikipedia on the Sperry Corporation
  3. 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. Association for Computing Machinery: 70–74. doi:10.1145/1457769.1457791. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  4. "UNIVAC 422". www.smecc.org. Archived from the original on 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2018-05-13.
  10. "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.
  11. "MAPPER", Wikipedia, date
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