Computer History: The Amazing Design of the UNIVAC's UNISERVO METAL TAPE DRIVES 1951

Computer History: The 1951 UNIVAC UNISERVO Metal Tape Drive, the first use of digital magnetic tape reel devices on computers. Tapes were made of a Nickel-Bronze alloy and weighed 4 pounds each! This film describes the drives in detail and shows the UNISERVOs in operation. An educational presentation from the Computer History Archives Project (CHAP). Narration: David Melvin.

Topics Include:
Vintage Computers
UNIVAC, UNISERVO
Magnetic Storage
Digital Tape
Magnetic Tape Reels
Data Processing
Business Computing
Eckert-Mauchly Computer Co.
Remington Rand UNIVAC
Binary Data Encoding
** - See For Related References:
UNISERVO Tape Reader Recorder (1952, Welsh, Lukof)
https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceed...
UNIVAC Scientific Magnetic Tape System 1956
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers...
Basic Programming UNIVAC 1 (1958, 1959) Pg. 122
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers...


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