The UNIVAC I was used by the Census Bureau to predict the outcome of the 1952 presidential election.
A UNIVAC I computer was accepted by the Bureau in 1951
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UNIVAC™ in 1951, when Remington Rand sold the first UNIVAC I to the US Census Bureau.
On March 31, 1951, the Census Bureau accepted delivery of the first UNIVAC computer. The final cost of constructing the first UNIVAC was close to one million dollars. Forty-six UNIVAC computers were built for both government and business uses.
The Remington Rand UNIVAC, it correctly predicted the 1952 presidential election on TV.
The first commercial computer, UNIVAC, was purchased by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1951. The nature of their work involved processing vast amounts of data for the national census, which required efficient data management and analysis — tasks that computers could perform much faster and more accurately than manual methods. This made the UNIVAC an ideal solution for handling the complexity and volume of census data.
1951 - UNIVAC I by the US Census Bureau. Prior to this computers were custom designed on contract as one of a kind machines.
The UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC. Design work was begun by their company, Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, and was completed after the company had been acquired by Remington Rand. (In the years before successor models of the UNIVAC I appeared, the machine was simply known as "the UNIVAC".) The first UNIVAC was delivered to the United States Census Bureau on March 31, 1951, and was dedicated on June 14 that year.[1] The fifth machine (built for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) was used by CBS to predict the result of the 1952 presidential election. With a sample of just 1% of the voting population it correctly predicted that Dwight Eisenhower would win. The UNIVAC I computers were built by Remington Rand's UNIVAC-division (successor of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, bought by Rand in 1950).
The Census got S/N 1.
In the US the first UNIVAC I was sold to the Census Bureau for about 1/10 of what it cost to build, in 1951. Prior to this computers were not "sold" as products, but built as one of a kind machines on "cost + fixed fee" contracts.
Remington Rand made the first commercial computer called the UNIVAC in 1951. There first customer was the U.S. Census Bureau. It had over 50 thousand vacuum tubes (transistors were not yet invented).
It's IBM (AKA Lenovo), But I don't know the software.