Labels:battery | book | bottle | bulletin board | fountain | windowpane OCR: THE COMPUTEP INDUSTRY HISTORY, CAREERS AND ETHICS 491 GENERATIONS OF COMPUTERS What was the first commercially successful computer? A com- puter called the UNIVAC is considered by most historians to be the first commercially successful digital computer The UNIVAC computer was constructed under the auspices of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp By the time the first UNIVAC was completed in 1951 the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. had fallen into financial distress and been acquired by Remington Rand one of IBM's chief rivals in the business machine arena. Forty-six UNIVAC computers were delivered to Remington Rand's cus- tomers between 1951 and 1958. At 14.5 feet long 7.5 feet high, and 9 feet wide UNIVAC was physically smaller than ENIAC but more powerful UNIVAC could read data at the rate of ...
