Eckert Mauchly on Locodigitalhttps://locodigital.com.br/en/tags/eckert-mauchly/Recent content in Eckert Mauchly on LocodigitalHugoen-USSun, 14 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0300UNIVAC I at 75: the computer that called an election and was silencedhttps://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/univac-i-at-75-the-first-commercial-computer-1951/Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/univac-i-at-75-the-first-commercial-computer-1951/<p>Philadelphia, 14 June 1951. An object weighing 13 tonnes, with 5,200 vacuum tubes and 350 square feet of floor space, is formally handed over to the U.S. Census Bureau. The technicians call it the UNIVAC I — <em>UNIVersal Automatic Computer</em>. It was the first commercially produced computer in history. Today it turns 75.</p> <p>That date tends to get swallowed by the noise of smartphone launches and AI announcements. It shouldn't. The UNIVAC I is ground zero for everything that followed — the direct lineage that reaches the processor rendering these words right now.</p>