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Article #621760Sperry Univac--side business "New Holland"; Letriever files; copiers
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Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 19:30
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 19:30
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When Remington Rand, owners of Univac, merged with Sperry to become, Sperry Rand, they had a number of businesses. One of them was "New Holland" which made farm and garden equipment, including tractors. Here is a 1973 ad for their garden tractor (two pages): https://books.google.com/books?id=htQDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA18&dq=sperry%20remington&pg=PA17#v=onepage&q&f=false (I don't think they had computer chips in the tractor.) Sperry Remington, the typewriter division, made something called a Lektriever, which was a high volume automated file drawer system. https://books.google.com/books?id=WUdwrsV16HkC&lpg=PA1061&dq=sperry%20remington&pg=PA1061#v=onepage&q&f=false Curiously, my local IBM branch office had one, with the Sperry logo prominently featured on it, to store manuals. Remington also made copiers: https://books.google.com/books?id=yTUEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA4&dq=sperry%20remington&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q&f=false In 1974 Sperry Rand consolidated Sperry Remington into the Sperry Univac division. A 1976 Computerworld article describes the performance of various divisions of Sperry Rand. (also an ad for the UTS 700 terminal). https://books.google.com/books?id=oLEYjJy98MsC&lpg=PA60&dq=sperry%20remington&pg=PA60#v=onepage&q=sperry%20remington&f=false
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