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Written on October 20th, 2025 by Tech Ads
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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))