UNIVAC I

The first UNIVAC I, built for the US Census Bureau and dedicated on June 14, 1951, with the operator's console in front and the rest of the system lined up along the walls. This is where computers stopped being one-off laboratory projects and became a product you could order. Remington Rand sold 46 of them at more than $1 million each, and UNIVAC was the first commercial computer to catch the wider public's attention, not just that of engineers and government labs.