History

Innovations FAQs

When was UNIVAC I installed at the U.S. Census Bureau?

UNIVAC I was delivered to the Census Bureau's Suitland, MD, headquarters in March 1951.

A Census Bureau employee using a Hollerith tabulator in 1908 (above) would have been able to compete with UNIVAC I's processing
speed 43 years later.
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress