Fifties Advertising: UNIVAC Computer TV-Commercial (5 February 1956) (Ad 2 of 2)

A 1950's television commercial for a UNIVAC computer, one of the first computers to be sold commercially. This commercial was aired on the CBS Television Network on 5 February, 1956. This computer was produced by Remington Rand. Pretty cool commercial if you ask me.

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[rivotrich7]

Could people back in the 50s watching TV actually afford one of these??

[MattTheSaiyan]

@rivotrich7 Nah....I think the commercial was intended to promote the company that made it in general.

[SamPD2]

Huh, my Calculater is more powerful then this.

[MattTheSaiyan]

Yeah. Even my old V-Tech toy computers are more powerful. Nevertheless, this probably did reduce a lot of work at the time, so it deserves some credit.

[lolipopus]

What if.. you could travel back with a Extreme Ultra Gaming rig (i7, gtx 295, 8 gb ram) back to the 50´s and play Crysis in front of them. ;D

[dboy122660]

@lolipopus You probably would have been considered a space alien and taken by the military to Roswell, NM for interrigation....lol

[SeberHusky]

@lolipopus

I just bought a HP Envy 17. Intel i7, 16 GB RAM, 1.5 TB HDD, and Radeon 7850M.

Good for me....better than good...excellent! Compared to what I have now that won't even run MineCraft on high settings.

[lolipopus]

@SeberHusky I got all three films so yeah... if i look at my comment (which i wrote a year ago) those specs aren't quite good anymore. :P

[SeberHusky]

@lolipopus

It would end up much like when Marty McFly crash-landed in 1955 for the first time.

He got shot at by Old Man Peabody and barely escaped.

"It looks like an airplane - without wings!"

[jvolstad]

I wonder how often you needed to replace a tube?

[RetroToledo]

@MattTheSaiyan And this was still back when American still made things as well, or felt proud to do say so.

[RetroToledo]

@TG626 I'm sure there were a few banks that bought into it in the 60's.

[RetroToledo]

@sneakers55 It's a shame it's like that these days.

[TG626]

@rivotrich7 People ?! Hell no. NOBODY owned computers in those days. When this ad was made the ONLY customer was big corporations - and even then they COULDN'T buy it, they leased it. (at least this was true of IBM)

[AdventureJim1969]

Wow! A vacuum tube was the brain inside of UNIVAC. You don't see many of those any more.