UNIVAC II Main Console (Working!)

In the Philadelphia area at UNISYS Tredyffrin Executive Briefing Center front lobby, there is a working UNIVAC II main console, with Winky Blinky lights and all:



The UNIVAC 1 is a machine with important historical significance to the computer industry because it was the first mass-produced computer to be sold to corporations. It's also the computer that has the distinction of being the one that Walter Cronkite used to correctly predict the outcome of the 1952 Presidential Election.

UNIVAC later on was purchased by Sperry (just following its purchase of Remington Rand) which later on merged with Burroughs and became UNISYS in 1986. The console depicted above in the lobby of UNISYS Tredy is actually a UNIVAC II, an improved version of the original utilizing transistorized components that was released in 1958, a few years after the Sperry merger.