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Early Computer Customers Information from Ron Q. Smith printed 2/22/2008 Table of Contents UNIVAC I Deliveries ................................................................................................................................................1 Datatron Deliveries.................................................................................................................................................3 UNIVAC II Deliveries.............................................................................................................................................5 UNIVAC 1101, 1102, 1103, and 1105 Deliveries...................................................................................................6 UNIVAC 1107 Deliveries ........................................................................................................................................7 UNIVAC III Deliveries............................................................................................................................................8 UNIVAC I Deliveries S/N Customer Location Delivered 1 Census Bureau Washington DC March 1951 2 Air Force Comptroller, later Arlington, VA - then March Air University Maxwell AFB, AL 1952/1958 Washington DC 3 Army Map Service Bethesda, MD Apr 1952 4 Atomic Energy Commission New York, NY Nov 1952 NYU 5 Atomic Energy Commission Berkeley, CA Nov 1952 later: David Taylor Model Bethesda, MD Basin 6 David Taylor Model Basin Bethesda, MD Apr 1953 7 Remington Rand Service New York, NY Oct 1953 Bureau 8 General Electric Louisville, KY Jan 1954 9 Metropolitan Life New York, NY Apr. 1954 10 Air Materiel Command Dayton, OH May 1954 11 U.S. Steel Pittsburgh, PA Jul 1954 12 Dupont Wilmington, DE Sep 1954 13 Census Bureau Suitland. MD Oct 1954 14 U.S. Steel Gary, IN Nov 1954 15 Franklin Life Insurance Springfield, IL Jan 1955 16 Remington Rand St. Paul, MN Jan 1955 17 Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Los Angeles, CA Aug 1955 18 Westinghouse Electric Pittsburgh, PA Sep 1955 19 Remington Rand Service Los Angeles, CA Nov 1955 Bureau 20 Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Cleveland, OH Feb 1956 21 Consolidated Edison New York, NY Jan 1956 22 Consolidated Edison later: New York, NY Feb 1956 Commonwealth of Harrisburg, PA Pennsylvania 23 John Hancock Insurance Boston, MA Dec 1955 later: Alcoa Pittsburgh, PA 24 Life & Casualty of Tennessee Nashville, TN Apr. 1956 25 Navy Bureau of Ships (DTMB) Bethesda, MD Feb 1956 A Legacy Project Document file: CommlCustomers.DOC Page 1 of 8 Information from Ron Q. Smith printed 2/22/2008 26 Sylvania Camillus, NY Mar 1956 27 Metropolitan Life New York, NY May 1956 later: Alcoa Davenport, IA 28 Metropolitan Life New York, NY May 1956 29 Sperry Gyroscope Great Neck, NY Jun 1956 30 Air Materiel Command, Dayton, OH Jul 1956 Gentilly 31 European Service Bureau Frankfurt, Germany Aug 1956 32 Harvard University later: Cambridge, MA Aug 1956 Systemetrics Mountainside, NJ 33 Carborundum Niagara Falls, NY Oct 1956 34 Air Materiel Command Sacramento, CA Oct 1956 McClellan Warren, MI later: Dodge Truck Division 35 Great Northern Railroad St. Paul. MN Nov 1956 36 Arizona Public Service Phoenix, AZ Nov 1956 37 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Feb 1957 later: Life & Casualty of Nashville, TN 1963 Tennessee 38 Remington Rand Accounting Buffalo, NY Apr 1957 39 U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Kansas City, MO Aug 1957 40 Franklin Institute Philadelphia, PA Jan 1957 41 Case Institute of Technology Cleveland, OH Oct 1957 42 University of Chicago Chicago, IL Nov 1957 43 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Pittsburgh, PA Sep 1958 44 Remington Rand Factory Philadelphia 45 Remington Rand Factory Philadelphia 46 Remington Rand Factory Philadelphia Notes:Consolidated Edison eventually rejected its machines. A Legacy Project Document file: CommlCustomers.DOC Page 2 of 8 Information from Ron Q. Smith printed 2/22/2008 Datatron Deliveries Customer Location When Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cal Tech Pasadena, CA Jun 1954 Purdue University Lafayette, IN Oct 1954 Allstate Insurance Skokie, IL Dec 1954 USAF Wright Air Development Center Dayton, OH Dec 1954 American Bosch ARMA Corp. Eglin AFB, FL Dec 1954 Mobil Oil (Socony) Paulsboro, NJ Dec 1954 U.S. Navy Ordnance Laboratory Corona, CA Dec 1954 Mobil Oil Dallas, TX Mar 1955 NASA Moffett, CA Mar 1955 Shell Oil Emeryville, CA Jun 1955 United Gas Corporation Shreveport, LA Nov 1955 Convair (General Dynamics) Pomona, CA Dec 1955 American Bosch ARMA Corp. Garden City, NY Jan 1956 Arthur D. Little Inc. Cambridge, MA Jan 1956 General Insurance Company Seattle, WA Jan 1956 Naval Air Station Patuxent, MD Jan 1956 USAF Technical Intelligence Center Dayton, OH Jan 1956 Babcock & Wilcox Lynchburg, VA Mar 1956 University of Dayton Dayton, OH Mar 1956 McDonnell Aircraft St. Louis, MO Apr 1956 Dow Chemical Freeport, TX May 1956 NASA Moffett, CA May 1956 Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory Buffalo, NY Jun 1956 M.W. Kellogg New York, NY Jun 1956 Nuclear Development Corporation White Plains, NY Jun 1956 California Research Corp. Richmond, CA Jul 1956 Westinghouse Electric Pittsburgh, PA Jul 1956 U.S. Army Tank Command Detroit, MI Jul 1956 U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office Suitland, MD Jul 1956 Sears, Roebuck & Co. Chicago, IL Sep 1956 Ohio Oil Co. Littleton, CO Oct 1956 Great Lakes Pipeline Co. Kansas City, MO Nov 1956 Mobil Oil Corporation Los Angeles, CA Nov 1956 Atomic Energy of Canada Ontario Dec 1956 Certified Grocers of California Los Angeles, CA Dec 1956 Canadair Limited Montreal Jan 1957 C.F. Braun & Co. Alhambra, CA Jan 1957 Union Carbide Niagara Falls, NY Jan 1957 USAF Norton AFN California Jan 1957 Atlantic Mutual Insurance New York, NY Apr 1957 Louis Allis Co. Milwaukee, WI Apr 1957 Argonaut Underwriters Menlo Park, CA May 1957 Northern Natural Gas Corp. Omaha, NE Jun 1957 A Legacy Project Document file: CommlCustomers.DOC Page 3 of 8 Information from Ron Q. Smith printed 2/22/2008 Pacific Power and Light Co. Portland, OR Jun 1957 Avco Manufacturing Co. Lawrence, MA Jul 1957 McDonnell Aircraft St. Louis, MO Jul 1957 Shell Oil Midland, TX Jul 1957 Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance St. Paul, MN Aug 1957 U.S. Navy Mine Defense Laboratory Panama City, FL Aug 1957 Fluor Corporation Whittier, CA Oct 1957 General Electric Rome, GA Oct 1957 Arthur D. Little Inc. Cambridge, MA Dec 1957 Celanese Corp. Corpus Christi, TX Dec 1957 USAF Rome Air Development Center Rome, NY Dec 1957 National Farmers Union Service Corp. Denver, CO Jan 1958 Shell Oil Tulsa, OK Jan 1958 U.S. Navy Underwater Sound New London, CT Apr 1958 Laboratory U.S. Navy Radiological Defense Lab San Francisco, CA May 1958 U.S. Army Chemical Center Edgewood, MD Jun 1958 Babcock & Wilcox Alliance, OH Jul 1958 University of Denver Denver, CO Jul 1958 University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT Jul 1958 U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency (3) Huntsville, AL Jul 1958 Boston Naval Shipyard Boston. MA Aug 1958 U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency Cape Canaveral, FL Aug 1958 Ralph M. Parsons Co. Los Angeles, CA Oct 1958 Behr Manning Troy, NY Nov 1958 Allstate Insurance Menlo Park, CA Jan 1959 Citizens Coke and Gas Indianapolis, IN Jan 1959 Schering Corp. Bloomfield, NJ May 1959 Delhi-Taylor Oil Corp. Corpus Christi, TX Jun 1959 American Cyanamid Corp. Stamford, CT Jul 1959 Kaiser Steel Corp. Fontana, CA Jul 1959 Linde Corp. Tonawanda, NY Jul 1959 University of Missouri Columbia, MO Jul 1959 University of Vienna Austria Jul 1959 ITT Labs Nutley, NJ Aug 1959 USAF Wright Air Development Division Fairborn, OH Aug 1959 Bio-Science Information Exchange Washington, DC Sep 1959 Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil Sep 1959 Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Cleveland, OH Sep 1959 Sanlam (Insurance) South Africa Oct 1959 U.S. Steel Corp. Monroeville, PA Oct 1959 Boston Insurance Company Boston, MA Dec 1959 Burroughs Corporation Detroit, MI Dec 1959 Security First National Bank Los Angeles, CA Jan 1960 USAF Itazuke AFB Japan Feb 1960 University of Portland Portland, OR Mar 1960 A Legacy Project Document file: CommlCustomers.DOC Page 4 of 8 Information from Ron Q. Smith printed 2/22/2008 Western Electric North Andover, MA Mar 1960 National Aeronautical Laboratory Osaka, Japan Apr 1960 Allstate Insurance Atlanta, GA Jun 1960 Allstate Insurance Sacramento, CA Jun 1960 Cleveland Graphite Bronze Cleveland, OH Jun 1960 Sylvania Corporation Waltham, MA Jun 1960 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Boston, MA Jun 1960 University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE Jun 1960 Eaton Manufacturing Co. Cleveland, OH Jul 1960 Commercial Shearing and Stamping Co. Youngstown, OH Aug 1960 Burroughs Corporation Detroit, MI Sep 1960 Los Angeles Board of Education Los Angeles, CA Sep 1960 Phillips Petroleum Co. Sweeny, TX Oct 1960 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA Nov 1960 UNIVAC II Deliveries S/N Customer Location When 0 UNIVAC (Prototype) St. Paul, MN Nov 1957 1 Ontario Hydro Toronto, Ontario Apr 1958 2 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. New York, NY Apr 1958 3 Sun Life Assurance Co. Montreal, Quebec May 1958 4 Navy Electronic Supply Office Chicago, IL Apr 1958 5 John Hancock Life Insurance Boston, MA Nov 1957 6 Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Philadelphia, PA Mar 1958 7 Reader’s Digest Pleasantville, NY May 1958 8 Parke Davis Detroit, MI May 1958 9 Harris Trust & Savings Bank Chicago, IL Jul 1958 10 Pacific Mutual Insurance Co. Los Angeles, CA Aug 1958 11 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. New York, NY Aug 1958 12 John Hancock Life Insurance Co. Boston, MA Oct 1958 13 Boston Edison Boston, MA Nov 1958 14 London Life Insurance Co. London, Ontario Sep 1958 15 Remington Rand Service Bureau Toronto, Ontario Dec 1958 16 U.S. Steel Pittsburgh,
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