The Franklin Life Insurance Co. had to tear out windows and walls to accommodate Springfield’s first computer. Then it had to hire a derrick to hoist the “electronic brain” five floors up. Franklin ...

Univac computer console and IBM equipment, October 1956. Lawrence Livermore accepted delivery of its first computer—a Univac—in 1952, the year of the Laboratory's founding. Image courtesy of Lawrence ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Unityper II, a modified Remington ...

A taut election, a fraught vote count, a blown result call. It’s all so very now. But it also happened back in 1960 when the principals were John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, and the prognosticator ...

"In contrast to Metropolitan Life, Franklin Life, the second insurance firm to take delivery of a Univac, was a medium-sized firm with roughly 1% the number of policies held by Metropolitan. Thus it ...