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| 2006 | ES7000/one Enterprise Server gives clients a foundation for achieving a Real-Time Enterprise. Based on Intel Xeon MP and Itanium 2 technology, the ES7000/one lets enterprises run Windows and Linux in their data centers. Security Unleashed debuts, a fresh way for organizations to view security. Rather than a defensive measure, security is a way for our clients to achieve growth and enable trust in dealing with their clients.
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| 2004 | 3D Blueprinting is introduced – a new way of seeing the inner workings of an organization that makes predicting the outcome of change more a matter of analysis than of guesswork.
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| 2001 | Customers are entering into long-term contracts with Unisys, resulting in outsourcing business with organizations such as Lloyds TSB, Northwest Airlines, Air Canada, California State University Systems, BMW Bank, HSBC, and GE Capital Bank. |
| 2000 | Unisys begins shipping ES7000 servers – the first in the market to take advantage of Windows 2000 Datacenter Server's support for 32-processor scalability. We launched iPSL, Intelligent Processing Solutions Limited, positioning the company as one of the major providers of outsourced financial services in the world. |
| 1999 | Continued momentum of our business enables us to retire all 28.4 million shares of Unisys preferred stock, eliminating $106 million in annual dividend costs. Overall, we've cut our debt by $1.2 billion in less than two years.
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| 1998 | Unisys launches initiative to bring enterprise-class capabilities to Windows NT environments. As part of this plan, we announced Cellular Multi-Processing (CMP), which will bring such enterprise-class capabilities as high-speed I/O, partitioning, and cross-bar architecture to Intel-based Windows NT servers.
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| 1997 | Lawrence A. Weinbach named chairman, president, and CEO. Unisys Windows NT servers lead industry in price/performance.
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| 1995 | Unisys introduces ClearPath Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP), enabling customers to integrate A Series and 2200 Series applications and databases with UnixWare and Windows NT applications and databases on a single platform.
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| 1994 | Services and solutions become the company's single largest business.
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| 1993 | Unisys introduces 2200/500, the first mainframe based on complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology.
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| 1992 | Unisys forms unit to deliver IT services.
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| 1989 | Unisys introduces Micro A, the first desktop, single-chip mainframe.
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| 1986 | Sperry and Burroughs merge to form Unisys Corporation. Sperry introduces 2200 Series, forerunner of the current ClearPath HMP IX system.
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| 1984 | Burroughs introduces A Series, forerunner of the current ClearPath HMP NX system.
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| 1980 | Burroughs golf scoring service first introduced at the 109th Open Championship Muirfield, Scotland. |
| 1976 | Sperry introduces first cache memory disk subsystem.
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| 1965 | Sperry introduces the 1108, the first multiprocessor computer.
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| 1961 | Burroughs introduces the B5000 Series, the first dual-processor and virtual memory computer.
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| 1960 | Sperry introduces the 1100 Series, forerunner of the 2200 Series.
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| 1959 | Burroughs pioneers use of magnetic ink character recognition (MICR).
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| 1955 | Sperry and Remington Rand merge to form Sperry Rand.
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| 1953 | Burroughs introduces first 10-key adding machine. Remington Rand introduces UNIVAC 1103, the first commercial use of random access memory (RAM).
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| 1952 | UNIVAC makes history by predicting the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as U.S. president before polls close.
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| 1951 | Remington Rand delivers UNIVAC computer to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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| 1950 | Remington Rand acquires Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp.
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| 1949 | Remington Rand produces 409, the worlds first business computer. The 409 was later sold as the UNIVAC 60 and 120 and was the first computer used by the Internal Revenue Service and the first computer installed in Japan. |
| 1946 | ENIAC, the world's first large-scale, general-purpose digital computer, developed at the University of Pennsylvania by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.
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| 1933 | Sperry Corp. formed.
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| 1930 | Working closely with Lt. James Doolittle, Sperry Gyroscope engineers developed the artificial horizon and the aircraft directional gyro – which quickly found their way aboard airmail planes and the aircraft of the fledgling commercial airlines. TWA was the first commercial buyer of these two products.
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| 1928 | Burroughs ships its one millionth adding machine.
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| 1927 | Remington Typewriter and Rand Kardex merge to form Remington Rand.
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| 1925 | Burroughs introduces first portable adding machine, weighing 20 pounds. Remington Typewriter introduces America's first electric typewriter.
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| 1923 | Burroughs introduces direct multiplication billing machine.
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| 1911 | Burroughs introduces first adding-subtracting machine.
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| 1910 | Sperry Gyroscope Co. founded to manufacture and sell navigational equipment.
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| 1909 | Remington Typewriter Co. introduces first "noiseless" typewriter.
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| 1905 | American Arithmometer renamed Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
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| 1886 | American Arithmometer Co. founded to manufacture and sell first commercially viable adding and listing machine, invented by William Seward Burroughs.
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| 1873 | E. Remington & Sons introduces first commercially viable typewriter.
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