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[td]During the 1960's Univac was involved in work on automating Air Traffic Control, the first trial system of the [[Common_ARTS#History|"Automated Radar Terminal System" (ARTS-I)]] was installed in Atlanta, followed by ARTS-IA system in New York, both of these systems were built around a UNIVAC 418 minicomputer. In 1969 the [[Federal Aviation Administration]] awarded a fixed-price multi-year contract to Univac Federal Systems Division for the installation of 64 ARTS III systems. Each installation consisted of three subsystems, namely the Data acquisition subsystem, the Data processing subsystem and the Data Entry and display subsystem. [[Burroughs Corporation]] received the subcontract for the Data acquisition subsystem, while the Data Entry and Display subsystem was subcontracted to [[Texas Instruments]]. The Data processing system was built around the 30-bit Univac 8303 IOP (I/O Processor) which could be configured in a multiprocessor configuration, depending on the specific Air traffic control site (New York had the largest)<ref name="artsiii">{{cite journal |last1=Walther |first1=W. |title=Multiprocessor self diagnosis, surgery, and recovery in air terminal traffic control |journal=ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review |date=1 January 1973 |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=38–44 |doi=10.1145/957195.808047 |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/957195.808047 |access-date=18 November 2023 |issn=0163-5980}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=ARTS III |url=https://www.gao.gov/products/092650 |publisher=U.S. Government Accountability Office |access-date=30 August 2025 |ref=GAO |date=1 February 1973}}</ref> These systems would continue in service well into the 1990's.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Savage |first1=J.A. |title=New FAA systems in holding pattern |url=https://books.google.ie/books?id=MCpDDSWgeZEC&pg=PA8 |access-date=30 August 2025 |work=Computerworld |volume=XXV |issue=22 |publisher=IDG Enterprise |date=3 June 1991 |page=8 |language=en}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]In 1977, Sperry Rand purchased [[Varian Data Machines]] so as to enter the [[minicomputer]] market. Varian would be renamed as the Sperry UNIVAC Minicomputer Operation, operating as part of the Sperry UNIVAC division.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sperry Univac V77 Family Communications Capabilities |url=http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/datapro/communications_processors/C13-877_Sperry_V77.pdf |website=BitSavers.org |publisher=DATAPRO RESEARCH CORPORATION |access-date=28 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Sperry Plans to Buy Varian Data Machines |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/05/24/archives/sperry-plans-to-buy-varian-data-machines.html |access-date=28 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=24 May 1977}}</ref> Sperry UNIVAC would continue to market the V77 but never made a significant dent in the minicomputer market.[/td]
[td]In 1977, Sperry Rand purchased [[Varian Data Machines]] so as to enter the [[minicomputer]] market. Varian would be renamed as the Sperry UNIVAC Minicomputer Operation, operating as part of the Sperry UNIVAC division.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sperry Univac V77 Family Communications Capabilities |url=http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/datapro/communications_processors/C13-877_Sperry_V77.pdf |website=BitSavers.org |publisher=Datapro Research Corporation |access-date=28 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Sperry Plans to Buy Varian Data Machines |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/05/24/archives/sperry-plans-to-buy-varian-data-machines.html |access-date=28 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=24 May 1977}}</ref> Sperry UNIVAC would continue to market the V77 but never made a significant dent in the minicomputer market.[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]To assist "corporate identity" the name was changed to Sperry Univac, along with Sperry Remington, [[New Holland Agriculture|Sperry New Holland]], etc. In 1978, Sperry Rand, a conglomerate of various divisions (computers, typewriters, office furniture, hay balers, manure spreaders, gyroscopes, avionics, radar, electric razors), decided to concentrate solely on its computing interests and all of the unrelated divisions were sold. The company dropped the ''Rand'' from its title and reverted to Sperry Corporation. By 1981 Sperry Univac was the largest of Sperry's operating divisions, in that year it brought in revenues of $2.7 billion.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Finance |first1=United States Congress House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and |title=Telecommunications Act of 1982: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session on H.R. 5158 .... |date=1982 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4WYjAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA95 |language=en}}</ref> Subsequently the distinct Sperry UNIVAC branding was dropped and the division was renamed as the Sperry Computer Systems Division.<ref name="NYT-Kroger">{{cite news |last1=Purdum |first1=Todd S. |title=Sperry's strategist; A new chief pushes to keep his company independent |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/27/...f-pushes-to-keep-his-company-independent.html |access-date=12 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=27 October 1985}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=John A. N. |last2=Lee |first2=J. A. N. |title=International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers |date=1995 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-884964-47-3 |page=274 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocx4Jc12mkgC&pg=PA274 |language=en}}</ref> In 1986, Sperry Corporation merged with [[Burroughs Corporation]] to become [[Unisys]].[/td]
[td]To assist "corporate identity" the name was changed to Sperry Univac, along with Sperry Remington, [[New Holland Agriculture|Sperry New Holland]], etc. In 1978, Sperry Rand, a conglomerate of various divisions (computers, typewriters, office furniture, hay balers, manure spreaders, gyroscopes, avionics, radar, electric razors), decided to concentrate solely on its computing interests and all of the unrelated divisions were sold. The company dropped the ''Rand'' from its title and reverted to Sperry Corporation. By 1981 Sperry Univac was the largest of Sperry's operating divisions, in that year it brought in revenues of $2.7 billion.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Finance |first1=United States Congress House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and |title=Telecommunications Act of 1982: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session on H.R. 5158 .... |date=1982 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4WYjAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA95 |language=en}}</ref> Subsequently the distinct Sperry UNIVAC branding was dropped and the division was renamed as the Sperry Computer Systems Division.<ref name="NYT-Kroger">{{cite news |last1=Purdum |first1=Todd S. |title=Sperry's strategist; A new chief pushes to keep his company independent |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/27/...f-pushes-to-keep-his-company-independent.html |access-date=12 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=27 October 1985}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=John A. N. |last2=Lee |first2=J. A. N. |title=International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers |date=1995 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-884964-47-3 |page=274 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocx4Jc12mkgC&pg=PA274 |language=en}}</ref> In 1986, Sperry Corporation merged with [[Burroughs Corporation]] to become [[Unisys]].[/td]
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[td]During the 1960's Univac was involved in work on automating Air Traffic Control, the first trial system of the [[Common_ARTS#History|"Automated Radar Terminal System" (ARTS-I)]] was installed in Atlanta, followed by ARTS-IA system in New York, both of these systems were built around a UNIVAC 418 minicomputer. In 1969 the [[Federal Aviation Administration]] awarded a fixed-price multi-year contract to Univac Federal Systems Division for the installation of 64 ARTS III systems. Each installation consisted of three subsystems, namely the Data acquisition subsystem, the Data processing subsystem and the Data Entry and display subsystem. [[Burroughs Corporation]] received the subcontract for the Data acquisition subsystem, while the Data Entry and Display subsystem was subcontracted to [[Texas Instruments]]. The Data processing system was built around the 30-bit Univac 8303 IOP (I/O Processor) which could be configured in a multiprocessor configuration, depending on the specific Air traffic control site (New York had the largest)<ref name="artsiii">{{cite journal |last1=Walther |first1=W. |title=Multiprocessor self diagnosis, surgery, and recovery in air terminal traffic control |journal=ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review |date=1 January 1973 |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=38–44 |doi=10.1145/957195.808047 |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/957195.808047 |access-date=18 November 2023 |issn=0163-5980}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=ARTS III |url=https://www.gao.gov/products/092650 |publisher=U.S. Government Accountability Office |access-date=30 August 2025 |ref=GAO |date=1 February 1973}}</ref> These systems would continue in service well into the 1990's.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Savage |first1=J.A. |title=New FAA systems in holding pattern |url=https://books.google.ie/books?id=MCpDDSWgeZEC&pg=PA8 |access-date=30 August 2025 |work=Computerworld |volume=XXV |issue=22 |publisher=IDG Enterprise |date=3 June 1991 |page=8 |language=en}}</ref>[/td]Revision as of 01:01, 3 September 2025
[/td][td]During the 1960's Univac was involved in work on automating Air Traffic Control, the first trial system of the [[Common_ARTS#History|"Automated Radar Terminal System" (ARTS-I)]] was installed in Atlanta, followed by ARTS-IA system in New York, both of these systems were built around a UNIVAC 418 minicomputer. In 1969 the [[Federal Aviation Administration]] awarded a fixed-price multi-year contract to Univac Federal Systems Division for the installation of 64 ARTS III systems. Each installation consisted of three subsystems, namely the Data acquisition subsystem, the Data processing subsystem and the Data Entry and display subsystem. [[Burroughs Corporation]] received the subcontract for the Data acquisition subsystem, while the Data Entry and Display subsystem was subcontracted to [[Texas Instruments]]. The Data processing system was built around the 30-bit Univac 8303 IOP (I/O Processor) which could be configured in a multiprocessor configuration, depending on the specific Air traffic control site (New York had the largest)<ref name="artsiii">{{cite journal |last1=Walther |first1=W. |title=Multiprocessor self diagnosis, surgery, and recovery in air terminal traffic control |journal=ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review |date=1 January 1973 |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=38–44 |doi=10.1145/957195.808047 |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/957195.808047 |access-date=18 November 2023 |issn=0163-5980}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=ARTS III |url=https://www.gao.gov/products/092650 |publisher=U.S. Government Accountability Office |access-date=30 August 2025 |ref=GAO |date=1 February 1973}}</ref> These systems would continue in service well into the 1990's.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Savage |first1=J.A. |title=New FAA systems in holding pattern |url=https://books.google.ie/books?id=MCpDDSWgeZEC&pg=PA8 |access-date=30 August 2025 |work=Computerworld |volume=XXV |issue=22 |publisher=IDG Enterprise |date=3 June 1991 |page=8 |language=en}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]In 1977, Sperry Rand purchased [[Varian Data Machines]] so as to enter the [[minicomputer]] market. Varian would be renamed as the Sperry UNIVAC Minicomputer Operation, operating as part of the Sperry UNIVAC division.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sperry Univac V77 Family Communications Capabilities |url=http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/datapro/communications_processors/C13-877_Sperry_V77.pdf |website=BitSavers.org |publisher=DATAPRO RESEARCH CORPORATION |access-date=28 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Sperry Plans to Buy Varian Data Machines |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/05/24/archives/sperry-plans-to-buy-varian-data-machines.html |access-date=28 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=24 May 1977}}</ref> Sperry UNIVAC would continue to market the V77 but never made a significant dent in the minicomputer market.[/td]
[td]In 1977, Sperry Rand purchased [[Varian Data Machines]] so as to enter the [[minicomputer]] market. Varian would be renamed as the Sperry UNIVAC Minicomputer Operation, operating as part of the Sperry UNIVAC division.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sperry Univac V77 Family Communications Capabilities |url=http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/datapro/communications_processors/C13-877_Sperry_V77.pdf |website=BitSavers.org |publisher=Datapro Research Corporation |access-date=28 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Sperry Plans to Buy Varian Data Machines |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/05/24/archives/sperry-plans-to-buy-varian-data-machines.html |access-date=28 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=24 May 1977}}</ref> Sperry UNIVAC would continue to market the V77 but never made a significant dent in the minicomputer market.[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]To assist "corporate identity" the name was changed to Sperry Univac, along with Sperry Remington, [[New Holland Agriculture|Sperry New Holland]], etc. In 1978, Sperry Rand, a conglomerate of various divisions (computers, typewriters, office furniture, hay balers, manure spreaders, gyroscopes, avionics, radar, electric razors), decided to concentrate solely on its computing interests and all of the unrelated divisions were sold. The company dropped the ''Rand'' from its title and reverted to Sperry Corporation. By 1981 Sperry Univac was the largest of Sperry's operating divisions, in that year it brought in revenues of $2.7 billion.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Finance |first1=United States Congress House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and |title=Telecommunications Act of 1982: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session on H.R. 5158 .... |date=1982 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4WYjAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA95 |language=en}}</ref> Subsequently the distinct Sperry UNIVAC branding was dropped and the division was renamed as the Sperry Computer Systems Division.<ref name="NYT-Kroger">{{cite news |last1=Purdum |first1=Todd S. |title=Sperry's strategist; A new chief pushes to keep his company independent |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/27/...f-pushes-to-keep-his-company-independent.html |access-date=12 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=27 October 1985}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=John A. N. |last2=Lee |first2=J. A. N. |title=International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers |date=1995 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-884964-47-3 |page=274 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocx4Jc12mkgC&pg=PA274 |language=en}}</ref> In 1986, Sperry Corporation merged with [[Burroughs Corporation]] to become [[Unisys]].[/td]
[td]To assist "corporate identity" the name was changed to Sperry Univac, along with Sperry Remington, [[New Holland Agriculture|Sperry New Holland]], etc. In 1978, Sperry Rand, a conglomerate of various divisions (computers, typewriters, office furniture, hay balers, manure spreaders, gyroscopes, avionics, radar, electric razors), decided to concentrate solely on its computing interests and all of the unrelated divisions were sold. The company dropped the ''Rand'' from its title and reverted to Sperry Corporation. By 1981 Sperry Univac was the largest of Sperry's operating divisions, in that year it brought in revenues of $2.7 billion.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Finance |first1=United States Congress House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and |title=Telecommunications Act of 1982: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session on H.R. 5158 .... |date=1982 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4WYjAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA95 |language=en}}</ref> Subsequently the distinct Sperry UNIVAC branding was dropped and the division was renamed as the Sperry Computer Systems Division.<ref name="NYT-Kroger">{{cite news |last1=Purdum |first1=Todd S. |title=Sperry's strategist; A new chief pushes to keep his company independent |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/27/...f-pushes-to-keep-his-company-independent.html |access-date=12 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=27 October 1985}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=John A. N. |last2=Lee |first2=J. A. N. |title=International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers |date=1995 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-884964-47-3 |page=274 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocx4Jc12mkgC&pg=PA274 |language=en}}</ref> In 1986, Sperry Corporation merged with [[Burroughs Corporation]] to become [[Unisys]].[/td]
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