Geek Fact for December 9th

By Judy Novotny / 12/09/2012 / 2 Comments / Geek Facts

In 1960, the Sperry Rand Corporation unveiled the Univac 1107.

The Univac 1107 was the first computer to use thin film magnetic memory technology. This technology employed a four millionths of an inch thick layer of iron-nickel alloy on glass plates.

Learn more at http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-u2.html.

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Judy Novotny

Judy is a computer veteran with 30 years of experience. She has owned everything from a TRS-80, Apple IIe and various Windows-based PCs. She is currently living in her Apple ecosystem at home consisting of an iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBook, Apple TV, iPod nano and two Time Capsules. She is a fan of all things mobile since she got her first Palm Pilot in 1999. Check out her iPad app, Number Wizard, in the App Store. Follow her on Twitter @junovotech or at Junovo.com.

2 thoughts on “Geek Fact for December 9th”

Wes Goodwin
12/10/2012 at 3:02 pm

It’s what started our modern computer age. It’s funny, but we still get requests to convert old media such as this (well maybe mot quite this old, lol) into current media forms.
1. Judy Novotny
  12/10/2012 at 10:08 pm
  
  Thanks for sharing, Wes. It seems that some old media formats (among other things) just simply refuse to die. 🙂

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