Today is Univac 1 Day!

Univac 1 was unveiled in Washington, DC, on this day in 1951. The Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC) was the first commercial computer produced in the United States. Designed for the Census Bureau, Univac was 8 feet high, 7-1/2 feet wide and 14-1/2 feet long. It had thousands of vacuum tubes that dimmed lights all over Washington when it cranked out information!
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Today's Inspirational Quote:
"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing."

~ Emo Philips

One of the developers of UNIVAC 1, Grace Hopper alias Grandma "COBOL", in 1959 standardized the COmmon Business Oriented Language and developed a compiler for the UNIVAC 1.

Hopper at the UNIVAC I console

Microsoft EDIT has been brought back from the ashes and updated!
Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built with Rust and simply called "Edit," works on Windows, macOS, and—in a twist that would have seemed unlikely three decades ago—Linux.

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Linux users can download Edit from the project's GitHub releases page or install it through an unofficial snap package. Oh, and if you're a fan of the vintage editor and crave a 16-bit text-mode for your retro machine that actually runs MS-DOS, you can download a copy on the Internet Archive.