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wow, well i thought it was rather cool

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Sidebar: Facts About UNIVAC I, Comparisons to Today's
State-of-the-Art Technology

	UNIVAC I	Unisys e-@ction  Enterprise Server ES7000	Ratio
Add:	120 microseconds	0.556 nanoseconds	216,000:1
Multiply:	1800 microseconds	20 nanoseconds	90,000:1
Divide:	3600 microseconds	78 nanoseconds	46,000:1
Memory:	9,000 bytes	64 gigabytes	1:7.6 million
Dimensions:	952 cubic feet	52 cubic feet	18.4:1
Weight:	29,000 lbs	1,200 lbs	24:1
Power:	125 kilowatts	6.76 kilowatts	18.5:1
Processors:	1 @ 0.008 MHz	32 @ 900 MHz	1:3,600,000

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A microsecond is one millionth of a second; a nanosecond is one billionth of a second.
A gigabyte is one billion bytes
 

• The UNIVAC I was so large that it was built in a cube with a hollow core and had doors to walk inside. Customer engineers frequently put a desk and chair inside and used it as an air-conditioned office.
   
• UNIVAC I was water-cooled and required a constant source of chilled water flowing through its pipes to keep the vacuum tubes from overheating. One UNIVAC was cooled with water from the local river and failed from overheating. The cause was traced to a fish blocking one of the pipes. The screen on the intake pipe had come loose creating the first computer-fish failure (rather than a bug).

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