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7 unusual facts about Remington Rand


40Plus

40Plus was established in 1939 by Henry Simler, an executive with the Remington Rand company.

ARITH-MATIC

ARITH-MATIC was originally known as A-3, but was renamed by the marketing department of Remington Rand UNIVAC.

Heinz Nixdorf

In 1951 he was first exposed to computer technology whilst working at Remington Rand.

Herman Lukoff

He followed ENIAC co-inventors J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly to their newly formed Electronic Control Company, which became Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, then became part of Remington Rand in 1950 and Sperry Corporation in 1955.

Leslie Hubricht

Professionally, Leslie Hubricht worked as an assistant at the Missouri Botanical Gardens from 1936 to 1943, then, until 1973, he was employed by Remington Rand as a tabulating machine mechanic and as a UNIVAC repairman.

New York, Rio, and Buenos Aires Line

O'Neill soldiered on, however, in the belief that an airline could actually support itself by carrying passengers, and managed to obtain backing from James Rand, Jr., head of Remington Rand, and others, and NYRBA took to the skies.

Remington Rand

Initially produced by Remington Arms, the Remington Typewriters were the first to use the QWERTY keyboard layout.


UNIPRINTER

The UNIPRINTER read metal UNIVAC magnetic tape using a tape reader and typed the data at 10 characters per second using a modified Remington typewriter.


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Charles Katz

He received a BS in mathematics at Temple University in 1950 and an MS at the University of Pennsylvania in 1953, then went to work at Remington-Rand with Grace Hopper on the development of compilers for her Univac programming languages beginning with A-2, followed by MATH-MATIC and FLOW-MATIC.