Unisys – A History of Excellence

 

The 133-year history of Unisys is one of creative, technically excellent, tenacious people – people helping businesses and governments apply information technology to achieve new levels of competitiveness and success.

 

ENIACInnovation Timeline: Explore over a century of technical excellence through our interactive archive.

 

 
   
2006

ES7000/one Enterprise Server gives clients a foundation for achieving a Real-Time Enterprise. Based on Intel Xeon MP and Itanium 2 technology, the ES7000/one lets enterprises run Windows and Linux in their data centers.

 

Security Unleashed debuts, a fresh way for organizations to view security.  Rather than a defensive measure, security is a way for our clients to achieve growth and enable trust in dealing with their clients.
 
2004

3D Blueprinting is introduced – a new way of seeing the inner workings of an organization that makes predicting the outcome of change more a matter of analysis than of guesswork.
 
2001

Customers are entering into long-term contracts with Unisys, resulting in outsourcing business with organizations such as Lloyds TSB, Northwest Airlines, Air Canada, California State University Systems, BMW Bank, HSBC, and GE Capital Bank.

 
2000

Unisys begins shipping ES7000 servers – the first  in the market to take advantage of Windows 2000 Datacenter Server's support for 32-processor scalability. We launched iPSL, Intelligent Processing Solutions Limited, positioning the company as one of the major providers of outsourced financial services in the world.

 
1998 Unisys launches initiative to bring enterprise-class capabilities to Windows NT environments. As part of this plan, we announced Cellular Multi-Processing (CMP), which will bring such enterprise-class capabilities as high-speed I/O, partitioning, and cross-bar architecture to Intel-based Windows NT servers.
 
1997 Unisys Windows NT servers lead industry in price/performance.
 
1995 Unisys introduces ClearPath Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP), enabling customers to integrate A Series and 2200 Series applications and databases with UnixWare and Windows NT applications and databases on a single platform.
 
1994 Services and solutions become the company's single largest business.
 
1993 Unisys introduces 2200/500, the first mainframe based on complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology.
 
1992 Unisys forms unit to deliver IT services.
 
1989 Unisys introduces Micro A, the first desktop, single-chip mainframe.
 
1986 Sperry and Burroughs merge to form Unisys Corporation. Sperry introduces 2200 Series, forerunner of the current ClearPath HMP IX system.
 
1984 Burroughs introduces A Series, forerunner of the current ClearPath HMP NX system.
 
1980

Burroughs golf scoring service first introduced at the 109th Open Championship Muirfield, Scotland.

 
1976 Sperry introduces first cache memory disk subsystem.
 
1965 Sperry introduces the 1108, the first multiprocessor computer.
 
1961 Burroughs introduces the B5000 Series, the first dual-processor and virtual memory computer.
 
1960 Sperry introduces the 1100 Series, forerunner of the 2200 Series.
 
1959 Burroughs pioneers use of magnetic ink character recognition (MICR).
 
1955 Sperry and Remington Rand merge to form Sperry Rand.
 
1953 Burroughs introduces first 10-key adding machine. Remington Rand introduces UNIVAC 1103, the first commercial use of random access memory (RAM).
 
1952 UNIVAC makes history by predicting the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as U.S. president before polls close.
 
1951 Remington Rand delivers UNIVAC computer to the U.S. Census Bureau.
 
1950 Remington Rand acquires Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp.
 
1949

Remington Rand produces 409, the worlds first business computer. The 409 was later sold as the UNIVAC 60 and 120 and was the first computer used by the Internal Revenue Service and the first computer installed in Japan. 

  
1946 ENIAC, the world's first large-scale, general-purpose digital computer, developed at the University of Pennsylvania by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.
 
1933 Sperry Corp. formed.
 
1930

Working closely with Lt. James Doolittle, Sperry Gyroscope engineers developed the artificial horizon and the aircraft directional gyro – which quickly found their way aboard airmail planes and the aircraft of the fledgling commercial airlines.  TWA was the first commercial buyer of these two products.
 
1928 Burroughs ships its one millionth adding machine.
 
1927 Remington Typewriter and Rand Kardex merge to form Remington Rand.
 
1925 Burroughs introduces first portable adding machine, weighing 20 pounds. Remington Typewriter introduces America's first electric typewriter.
 
1923 Burroughs introduces direct multiplication billing machine.
 
1911 Burroughs introduces first adding-subtracting machine.
 
1910 Sperry Gyroscope Co. founded to manufacture and sell navigational equipment.
 
1909 Remington Typewriter Co. introduces first "noiseless" typewriter.
 
1905 American Arithmometer renamed Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
 
1886 American Arithmometer Co. founded to manufacture and sell first commercially viable adding and listing machine, invented by William Seward Burroughs.
 
1873 E. Remington & Sons introduces first commercially viable typewriter.
 
Unisys History Newsletter Fascinating online articles about Unisys, its history and predecessor companies.
Rowayton Historical Society Learn more about the Remington Rand 409, the first computer designed specifically for business applications, and early UNIVAC models.