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

Like and subscribe. This is an archive channel, i'm not the owner of the content, check the link in the end. 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/proceedings/afips/1952/5041/00/50410047.pdf
UNIVAC Scientific Magnetic Tape System 1956
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_univac1103ug56_3513053
Basic Programming UNIVAC 1 (1958, 1959) Pg. 122
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_univacunivng1959_9057395

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