UNIVAC 490 computer operators, 1960s. The computer model being used here is the UNIVAC 490, used by organisations such as NASA, the US Air Force, and

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UNIVAC 490 computer operators, 1960s. The computer model being used here is the UNIVAC 490, used by organisations such as NASA, the US Air Force, and several major US industrial companies. The UNIVAC 490 Real-Time System shown here was used by several US airlines. UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was a series of computers built from 1951 onwards, with UNIVAC models demonstrating key advances in computing made in the 1950s and 1960s. The name UNIVAC was used by a number of computing companies. This photograph is from the UNIVAC Division of the Sperry Rand Corporation. The use of the name UNIVAC was discontinued in the 1980s. Photographed in around 1961.

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