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UNIVAC 494
Manufacturer | UNIVAC
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Identification,ID | 494
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Date of first manufacture | -
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Number produced | -
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Estimated price or cost | -
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location in museum | -
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donor | -
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Photo
UNIVAC 494 Console
from John Knapp -
"... use as you please....", August 7, 2003
It is the Console of System 3, with Univac 1004 on left .
Picture was taken for an ad. (I'm the dude on the right..)
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Placard
UNIVAC 494 Operator's Console, 1966
On-line transaction processing was enjoying high growth in the
mid-1960s with most major U.S. corporations installing some
type of data communications network across their organization
sometime during the decade. The UNIVAC computer here was
used by Traveller's Insurance as a central component of one of
these early systems. This console was used for maintenance
and testing purposes.
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Architecture
from John Knapp -
August 7, 2003
The 494 Contained 262K Words (30 Bits) of 750ns core memory, it completed
most instructions 1 every 375ns and
ran a Nationwide Network of CRT and Paper Tape / Printing Terminals for the
Travelers Ins Co. The principle was you could NOT call two Travelers
field offices and report the same accident twice.
They had 3 systems, Realtime, Production / Backup and a Test /
Development system for a 3rd application (don't remember name)
The systems (3) were finally removed in 1978-9 timeframe. and Travelers
became a "pure" IBM shop.
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