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Remington Rand Superseded

Remington Rand
KindCompany
Founded1927
Defunct1955
StatusSuperseded
FoundersJames Rand Jr.
FieldBusiness machines
Sourcebitsavers.org ↗

The office-machine giant that bought Eckert–Mauchly's little startup in 1950 and shipped UNIVAC — then merged with Sperry in 1955.

Succeeded by Sperry Rand
Acquisitions Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation

James Rand Jr.'s 1927 merger made Remington Rand the largest US office-machine company — typewriters, Kardex files, tabulators. Its 1950 purchase of EMCC for $250,000 plus royalty obligations gave it the first American commercial computer, the UNIVAC I.

Merged with Sperry Corporation in 1955 to form Sperry Rand, which ran UNIVAC as a division for three decades.

Sources

  1. bitsavers.org/pdf/univac/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Rand