verse

[Brian Hitchcock]

UNIVAC did not refer to vacuum tubes. It was an acronym for "Universal
Automatic Computer". Thus a "multivac" would be a multiversal automatic
computer?



"univac." The American HeritageR Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition.
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. 21 Jan. 2011.

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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/univac

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