Company History

1816

E. Remington company was founded by Eliphalet Remington as a manufacturer of firearms.

1856

Remington company becomes E. Remington & Sons when all three of Eliphalet Remington’s sons joined him as the company expanded its manufacturing capabilities across various industries.

1873

E. Remington & Sons introduces first commercially viable typewriter, the Model 1 Remington, that uses the QWERTY keyboard layout. The names comes from the first six keys on the top left letter row of the keyboard still used today.

1878

The Remington Standard 2 typewriter upstrike machine was produced and sold in considerable numbers with the major improvement of adding the ‘Shift’ key to type capital letters.

1886

American Arithmometer Company was founded in St. Louis, MI to manufacture and sell the first commercially viable adding and listing machine, invented by William Seward Burroughs and was later patented in 1892.

1888

Burroughs' granted patent for adding machine with nine-digit adding and printing mechanism, designed to record only the final result of the calculation.

1904

American Arithmometer Company renames itself Burroughs Adding Machine Company and moves to Detroit, beginning construction on a huge plant; company soon becomes the biggest adding machine company in America.

1909

Remington Typewriter Company introduces first "noiseless" typewriter.

1910

Sperry Gyroscope Company, founded by electrical inventor Elmer Ambrose Sperry, begins to manufacture and sell navigational equipment for ships and aircraft.

1911

Burroughs introduces first adding-subtracting machine.

1923

Burroughs introduces the direct-multiplication billing machine.

1925

Remington Typewriter introduces America's first electric typewriter.

1925

Burroughs introduces first portable adding machine, weighing 20 pounds.

1927

Rand Kardex, led by James Rand, Jr., merges with Remington Typewriter to form Remington Rand.

1928

Burroughs ships its one millionth adding machine.

1930

Working closely with Lt. James Doolittle, Sperry Gyroscope engineers develop the artificial horizon and the aircraft directional gyroscope. They quickly find their way aboard airmail planes and the aircraft of the fledgling commercial airlines.

1933

Sperry Corporation formed as a holding company for a number of smaller entities including the original Sperry Gyroscope, Ford Instrument Company, Intercontinental Aviation, Inc., and others.

1942-45

The Sperry S-1 precision bombsight becomes "standard" equipment when used in some U.S. Army Air Force bombers early in World War II.

1942-45

Burroughs manufactured Norden bombsight and Sperry bombsight prove instrumental in the winning air campaign against Axis powers in World War II.

1946

J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly develop Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC), the world's first large-scale, general-purpose digital computer, at the University of Pennsylvania; ENIAC is 100 times faster than any other previous computer.

1949

Remington Rand 409 designed as the world's first business computer. The 409 is later sold as the UNIVAC 60 and 120, and is the first computer used by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the first computer installed in Japan.

1950

Remington Rand acquires Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation.

John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert

1951

Remington Rand delivers UNIVAC, the first commercial computer, to the U.S. Census Bureau.

1952

The UNIVAC makes history by predicting the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as U.S. president before polls close.

Remington Rand's Harold E Sweeney and J Presper Eckert demonstrate UNIVAC for CBS' Walter Cronkite (L-R).

1953

Burroughs introduces first 10-key adding machine.

Remington Rand introduces UNIVAC 1103, marking the first commercial use of random access memory (RAM).

1955

Sperry and Remington Rand merge to form Sperry Rand and over the next decade introduce ~100 computer products for commercial and military use.

Remington Rand introduces UNIVAC 1103, marking the first commercial use of random access memory (RAM).

1956

U.S. government starts using the UNIVAC-1 weather forecasting.

Watch this Remington Rand commercial

1959

Burroughs pioneers use of magnetic ink character recognition (MICR).

The MICR encoding at the bottom of checks and vouchers allows MICR readers to scan and read the information directly into a data-collection device.

1960

Sperry Rand's Ship Inertial Navigation System (SINS) enables the USS Triton submarine to circumnavigate the world without surfacing.

1960

Grace Hopper's co-creation of the UNIVAC proves instrumental to the Apollo missions, which require a different form of communication than the Earth-orbiting Mercury. This Deep Space Tracking Network (DSTN) can be processed by the UNIVAC accepting a continuous 48kbps data stream from the Apollo spacecraft.

1960

U.S. Census Bureau purchases two UNIVAC 1105 computers for the 1960 census.

Sperry introduces the UNIVAC 1100 Series, forerunner of the 2200 Series.

1961

Burroughs introduces the B5000 Series, the first dual-processor and virtual memory computer.

One B5000 selling point is offering "higher level" programming languages (ALGOL and COBOL) as the human interface to the system.

1965

Sperry introduces the UNIVAC 1108, the first multiprocessor computer.

1976

A UNIVAC 1108, the first multiprocessor system, processes the 1970 United States Census.

1976

Sperry introduces first cache memory disk subsystem.

Cache memory, integral to the V77-800 (1024 bytes) and optional with the V77-600 (2048 bytes), can almost double processing speed in most typical applications.

1980

Burroughs golf scoring service first introduced at the 109th Open Championship in Muirfield, Scotland. Unisys scored major tournaments around the world for more than 20 years.

1984

Burroughs introduces A Series, forerunner of the current ClearPath® Libra system.

1986

Sperry introduces 2200 Series, forerunner of the current ClearPath® Dorado system.

1986

Sperry and Burroughs merge to form Unisys Corporation.

1989

Unisys introduces Micro A, the first desktop, single-chip mainframe and the 2200/600, setting new standards for large mainframes.

1990

Unisys selected as the contractor to build the NEXRAD (Next-Generation Radar) system, called WSR-88D (Weather Surveillance Radar, 1988, Doppler), a network of high-resolution S-band Doppler radars to detect and forecast weather.

1992

Unisys forms unit to deliver IT services.

First installation of the WSR-88D for operational use in Sterling, Virginia.

1993

Unisys introduces 2200/500, the first mainframe based on complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology.

1998-95

Unisys launches the WeatherMAX Weather Data Center, providing value added services including:

1995

Services and solutions become the company's single largest business.

1995

Unisys introduces ClearPath® Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP), enabling clients to integrate A Series and 2200 Series applications and databases.

1996

Unisys launches a seven-year project for the U.S. Social Security Administration to install more than 1,700 LANS, 70,000 workstations and 4,000 servers at 1,500 locations in one of the largest IT deployments in the federal government.

1997

Unisys Windows NT servers lead industry in price/performance

1998

Unisys launches initiative to bring enterprise-class capabilities to Windows NT environments with Cellular Multi-Processing (CMP).

1999

Unisys develops a fingerprint ID system for South Africa that targets more than 40 million people, as well as the world's first large scale multi-application smart card for Malaysia.

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.

2001

The Unisys CS7802 ClearPath® Plus Server provides exceptional flexibility by allowing users to partition computing resources on the fly, adjusting to varying workloads.

2004

New Unisys 3D Blueprinting™ introduces 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.

2006

Unisys ES7000/one Enterprise Server gives clients a foundation for combining Windows and Linux applications in their data centers.

2007

Unisys Security Index goes global, measuring consumer opinion on various issues related to national, personal, financial and Internet security.

2007

Unisys opens a data center in Eagan, Minnesota with innovative "green" design - from energy-efficient servers to restoration of surrounding prairie lands.

2008

Unisys helps Beijing Airport prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games by serving as the master systems integrator for a brand new Terminal 3 to handle soaring traffic.

2009

Unisys completes security certification for 14 multi-client service centers worldwide to help clients maintain stringent security for business-critical information.

2009

Unisys refreshes its solution portfolio with innovative services and technologies, including Converged Remote Infrastructure Management, Smart On-site, and a range of new ClearPath® enhancements.

2009

Unisys announces new, focused strategy building on the company's strengths in growing markets of security, data center transformation and outsourcing, end user outsourcing and support services, and application modernization.

2010

Unisys launches the Unisys Hosted Secure Private Cloud Solution, giving clients the primary benefits of both provider-hosted clouds and private clouds.

2010

Unisys debuts secure partitioning (s-Par®), a Unisys-developed virtualization technology for Intel processor-based ClearPath® servers.

2011

Unisys Weather launches Weather Enthusiast Mobile application.

Unisys releases a new technology system called the Unisys NOAAPort Gateway, combining the Unisys satellite broadcast with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) service, providing unparalleled commercial weather data to supplement and complete the weather offered on NOAAPORT.

2011

Unisys rolls out its most powerful ClearPath® system to date - the Libra and Dorado 800 Series.

2011

Unisys unveils Stealth™ Solutions for Secure Virtual Terminal, a solution residing on a federal government-certified USB device to protect mobile users' data.

Unisys Stealth® solution for Networks achieves EAL-4+ certification from the National Security Agency as a secure solution for protection of data-in-motion.

2012

Application development services of Unisys Global Services, India, achieves CMMI-Dev version 1.3 Maturity Level 5.

2012

Unisys launches the ClearPath® Libra 6200 high-end server and other new members of the ClearPath family.

2013

Unisys announces availability of its Unisys Stealth® for Mobile solution using microsegmentation to address the major security concerns facing enterprises as growing numbers of their employees use consumer devices at work.

2013

Unisys announces its new Forward!™ enterprise computing platform - a breakthrough fabric-based solution that brings unmatched levels of mission-critical security, availability, scalability and predictable computing performance.

2014

Unisys debuts the first ClearPath® systems making use of an advanced fabric-based architecture that enables clients to run OS 2200 and MCP applications alongside Linux and Windows in the same Intel-based computing platform.

2015

Unisys expands the NOAAPort Gateway to begin receiving Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R), the most advanced fleet of geostationary weather satellites that orbit the Earth's equatorial plane at the speed matching the earth's rotation - allowing them to remain stationary with respect to a point on the ground from 22,300 miles above Earth.

2015

Unisys becomes a global managed services partner to ServiceNow to deliver integrated service management solutions that help clients in their digital business transformation.

2015

Unisys integrates the capabilities of the ClearPath® and Forward™ platforms to create the consolidated ClearPath Forward®

Unisys debuts the high-end ClearPath® Dorado 8300 Series, transitioning the ClearPath architecture from proprietary platforms to a software-based fabric architecture running on Intel processors.

2015

Unisys announces a range of advanced security products and solutions, including a new software-based release of Unisys Stealth®, for protection of digital physical assets.

Stealth(core)™ for microsegmentation

Stealth(mobile)™ to secure mobile devices

Stealth(cloud)™ to extend protection to public cloud

2016

Unisys takes its flagship ClearPath® software virtual with a hardware-independent version of the MCP operating environment ready to run on any Intel x86 server, whether from Unisys or another provider.

2016

Unisys marks the 30th anniversary of the brand around the world.

2016

Unisys inaugurates its newest U.S. client service center in Augusta, Georgia, helping spur that city's growing economy and supporting its emergence as a global hub for cybersecurity.

2016

U.S. National Security Agency designates Unisys Stealth® microsegmentation security software as eligible to protect sensitive systems for 20 governments worldwide.

Unisys announces the new Stealth(aware) application to deploy enterprise-wide microsegmentation security across extended networks with the touch of a button, as well as availability of Stealth(cloud) on the widely used Amazon Web Services Marketplace and Microsoft Azure cloud.

2017

Unisys Elevate™ provides new omnichannel solution for a seamless banking experience anytime, anywhere.

2017

Unisys ActiveInsights™ provides Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations with a secure, integrated approach to medical device management.

2017

Unisys FamilyNow™ introduces a comprehensive, next-generation case management software solution for social services agencies to better protect children and assist families in need.

2017

Unisys Digistics™ , a new cargo platform for air carriers, can simplify business processes through automation, provide advanced analytics, improve processes and sustain efficient routes.

2017

Unisys AirCore® provides a suite of advanced transportation solutions for airlines to optimize their sales and customer service capabilities across aspects of the passenger journey.

2017

2017 Unisys Security Index™ measures concerns of consumers on issues related to national, personal, financial and Internet security around the world.

This year marks 10 years and counting.

2017

Latest version of Unisys Stealth® microsegmentation security software introduces greater interoperability and scalability to protect data in hybrid cloud environments.

2017

Unisys wins Gold at the ITSMA Marketing Excellence Awards in the "Ensuring Customer Success" category for the Unisys Closed-loop Client Success Program.

2018

Unisys unveils TrustCheck™ Cyber Risk Management subscription-based service that continually assesses and prioritizes cyber risk in economic terms.

2018

Unisys launches CloudForte® , an agile and innovative managed services offering designed to accelerate the move to the cloud providing services for:

- Innovation
- Discovery
- Migration
- Transformation- Operations

2018

Unisys launches Unisys InteliServe™ , a service solution that transforms the traditional service desk into an Intelligent, user-centric experience for digital workers with

- Single point of engagement
- Better outcomes through AI
- Personalized services platform

2018

Unisys unveils LineSight™ , an advanced analytic-based solution to dramatically improve accuracy in assessing border security threats.

2018

Philadelphia Business Journal recognizes Unisys as a "Healthcare Innovator of the Year" recognizing the Unisys Stealth® security software suite.

2019

Unisys releases Stealth ^® 4.0 security software, featuring dynamic isolation of suspicious machines to limit breach damage. Unisys also releases Stealth(identity) 2.0 , and launched its new Managed PKI offering.

2019

Unisys named Leader in Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant for Managed Workplace Services, NA positioned highest on ability to execute axis.

2020

Unisys awarded International IT System Provider of the Year by highly acclaimed STAT Times International for Air Cargo for facilitating digital transformation across supply chain.

2020

Unisys Stealth® 5.0 recognized as hottest new cybersecurity product at RSA Conference 2020.

2020

Sale of U. S. Federal Business – Unisys closed on the sale of the company’s U.S. Federal business to Science Applications International Corporate (SAIC). The sale positions Unisys with improved operational flexibility and increased value to shareholders.

2020

ClearPath Forward® Software Environment in the Public Cloud – The launch of the ClearPath® MCP Software Series for Microsoft Azure enables users to deploy business-critical applications transparently in the public cloud without altering existing business models, re-engineering or changing code.

2020

ENIAC 75th Anniversary - While the number of components in a modern computer are significantly less than those in ENIAC, a talented and diverse workforce continues to do the work these women pioneered in the 1940s developing systems and solutions to address the most pressing problems of the day.