Proven Performance
Written on October 20th, 2025 by Tech Ads
[expand]
Page 1
For more than forty years Remington Rand has been a
source of numerous significant machine developments for
business. Univac Fac-Tronic System — latest in a long line
—is the first universal electronic system for processing
both numeric and alphabetic data without special coding.
The system is flexible enough to fit any record-
PROVEN LEADERSHIP keeping application from comprehensive sta-
tistical problems of the U.S. Census Bureau to complex
mathematical problems and huge records-analysis prob-
lems of industrial organizations. The forerunners of
Univac—electronic computers Eniac and Binac—provided
a testing ground for the techniques and equipment adapted
DEVELOPMENT for use in Univac. With production lines in operation,
SELLING Univac orders are being solicited and deliveries made.
MANUFACTURING
RESEARCH
REMINGTON RAND Inc.
ECKERT MAUCHLY DIVISION
also
Engineering Research Associates
(subsidiary)
—
Four hundred five-item shipments priced, extended,
totalled and prepared for printing (including name and
address) in thirty-five minutes. Performance
standards were exceeded when the computer
—after the programming unit had been checked out—ran for
29 hours of continuous computation without interruption
of any kind. At another time, covering 20 successive test
units, 780 million pulses were read without interruption.
OUTPUT PROVEN PERFORMANCE
INPUT
STORAGE
MATRIX ALGEBRA
MULTIPLICATION
[ ORDER ‘SQ. X COL. INVERSION
BALANCED PERFORMANCE
50 1 min. 1 hr.
loc 7.5 mins. 8 hrs.
200 30 mins. 57 hrs.
300 1 hr. 200 hrs.
oe
The First Name in Business Electronics Maecraeiregtore. Whearcl
[/expand]
‘Proven Performance’
Remington Rand’s Univac Fac-Tronic System was a commercial mainframe computer from the early 1950s. The Fac-Tronic was capable of storing 1,000 12 character words via mercury-based memory system. A selection of peripherals - including tape storage, a printer, a control console, and a punch card to tape digitiser - were also available. The installation location requirements were around 25 feet by 50 feet by 10 feet.
The technical relationship between the Univac Fac-Tronic and the Univac 1 is quite cloudy.
A marketing pamphlet for the Univac Fac-Tronic System can be fount at the Internet Archive. A January 1953 Programmers Guide for the Univac Fac-Tronic System can be found at BitSavers.
Taken from: The Computing Machinery Field - Volume 1, No. 4 (October 1952)