Sperry Univac--side business "New Holland"; Letriever files; copiers

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Author: hanc...
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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