List of UNIVAC products

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

The Remington Rand years (1950 to 1955)

Calculating devices

Computer systems

Peripherals

Storage

Display and print

  • UNIVAC High speed printer 600 line/min printer

Offline tape handling units

  • UNIPRINTER 10 char/s printer with tape drive
  • UNITYPER keyboard with tape drive
  • UNIVAC Tape to Card converter card punch with tape drive
  • UNIVAC Card to Tape converter card reader with tape drive
  • UNIVAC Paper Tape to Tape converter paper tape reader with tape drive

The Sperry Rand years (1955 to 1978)

Calculating devices

Computer systems

Embedded systems

  • AN/USQ-17 – the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) or M-460[3]
  • AN/USQ-20 – updated NTDS, aka UNIVAC 1206 or G-40
  • AN/UYK-5 18-bit (octal) digital CPU Military System (Navy/Marines) used for logistics/pay/maintenance management (Navy Shipboard, Marines Portable)
  • AN/UYK-7 – multiprocessor for Aegis. 32-bit replacement for the Naval Tactical Data System, derived from UNIVAC 1108
  • AN/UYK-8 – dual processor version of the Naval Tactical Data System
  • AN/UYK-20
  • AN/UYK-43 – replaced and shared its instruction set with the AN/UYK-7
  • AN/UYK-44 – replaced and shared its instruction set with the AN/UYK-20
  • UNIVAC 1218 – real-time computer
  • UNIVAC 1230 – later, faster (2×) version of the AN/USQ-20 (memory size and I/O were identical)

Word machines

  • LARC
  • UNIVAC File Computer - Used by Eastern Air Lines in an early Reservation system. [4] [5]
  • UNIVAC Solid State
  • UNIVAC II
  • UNIVAC III
  • UNIVAC 418 – real-time computer
  • UNIVAC 418-II – real-time computer
  • UNIVAC 418-III – real-time computer
  • UNIVAC 422[6][7][8] - Univac Digital Trainer,[9][10] part of the Programmed Educational Package (Prep)[11]
  • UNIVAC 490 – commercial adaptation of AN/USQ real-time system
  • UNIVAC 492
  • UNIVAC 494
  • UNIVAC 494-MAPS – The first Multi-Associated Processor System - not made available commercially
  • UNIVAC 1103A
  • UNIVAC 1104
  • UNIVAC 1105
  • UNIVAC 1100/2200 series:
  • UNIVAC 1106 (half-speed 1108)
  • UNIVAC 1107
  • UNIVAC 1108
  • UNIVAC 1110
  • UNIVAC 1100/10 (1106 upgraded with semiconductor memory)
  • UNIVAC 1100/20 (1108 upgraded with semiconductor memory)
  • UNIVAC 1100/40 (1110 upgraded with semiconductor memory)
  • UNIVAC 1100/82A
  • UNIVAC 1100/181

Variable word length machines

  • UNIVAC 1050

Byte machines

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

Peripherals

Storage

  • FH-432 (Flying Head) drum
  • FH-880 (Flying Head) drum
  • FH-1782 (Flying Head) drum
  • FASTRAND drum drive
  • RANDEX drum drive[12]
  • 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 (6250 BPI)(OEM from STK)

Display and print

  • Uniscope

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

Software

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 Processor CALL
CSHELL Command Shell CSHELL
Conversational TimeSharing CTS
Univac Text Editor ED
Full-Screen Editor FSED
Interactive Processing Facility IPF
Logically Integrated FORTRAN Translator LIFT
Symbolic Stream Generator SSG
Table of Contents Editor TOCED Edits table of contents, privileged users can read the master file directory and interface with the print system.[13]
Transaction Interface Package TIP
UEDIT UEDIT
Client Server Development UTS-400 COBOL
MAPPER (Software) MAPPER 4GL[14]
Programming Language for UNISYS Systems PLUS
Master File Directory MFD
SX1100 SX1100 UNIX on Exec8, OS1100 and OS2200
CS1100 CS1100 Communications Simulator
Traffic Control Language TCL

Applications

The Sperry Corporation years (1978 to 1986)

  • UNIVAC 1100/2200 series:
  • UNIVAC 1100/60
  • UNIVAC 1100/70
  • UNIVAC 1100/80
  • UNIVAC 1100/90
  • UNIVAC Integrated Scientific Processor (ISP)
  • UNIVAC Series 90:
  • UNIVAC 90/25
  • UNIVAC 90/30
  • UNIVAC 90/40
  • UNIVAC 90/60
  • UNIVAC 90/70
  • UNIVAC 90/80

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 on XX - IRE-ACM-AIEE '58 (Western). Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 70–74. doi:10.1145/1457769.1457791. http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/UNIVAC-M-640.html. Retrieved 24 May 2019. 
  4. "Reservations Communications Utilizing a General Purpose Digital Computer". https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1457720.1457753. 
  5. "The Univac Air Lines Reservations System: A Special-Purpose Application of a General- Purpose Computer". https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1458043.1458075. 
  6. "UNIVAC 422". https://www.smecc.org/univac_422.htm. 
  7. Weik, Martin H. (Jan 1964). "UNIVAC 422 TRNG COMP". http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL64-u.html#UNIVAC-422-TRNG-COMP. 
  8. K, Special (1 October 2008). "Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) - fly me to the Moon". http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/2008/10/apollo-guidance-computer-agc-fly-me-to.html. 
  9. Weik, Martin H. (Jan 1964). "UNIVAC DIG TRNR". http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL64-u.html#UNIVAC-DIG-TRNR. 
  10. Haga, Enoch J. (November 1962). "Understanding Automation: PREP FOR COMPUTER TRAINING" (in en). The Journal of Business Education 38 (2): 70. doi:10.1080/08832323.1962.10116580. ISSN 0021-9444. 
  11. "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/afips/1960/5057/00/50570189.pdf. 
  12. "A Collection of Utility Processors and Libraries for Unisys 2200 ClearPath Mainframes". http://cgibin.rcn.com/leistlc/cgi-bin/indexbld.pl. 
  13. "MAPPER", Wikipedia, date

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