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UNIVAC 490

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The standard Operating System was REX (RealTime Exec), except at Eastern and B.E.A. where a custom operating system was developed for airline reservations (CONTORTS – CONTrol Of Real Time System). CONTORTS was the origin of Univac's subsequent RT operating systems for 494 (STARS) and later converted
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In June 1965, UNIVAC launched a family of successor systems known as the UNIVAC 490 Modular Real Time Systems. This consisted of the UNIVAC 491, 492 and 494. The 494 was heavily used by NASA as part of the communications complex for the Apollo Mission. Other users include BEA,
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The only surviving, nearly complete, original, civilian version of the 490 Real Time System is on display at System Source in
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for the US Navy. This was the last machine that Cray designed before leaving UNIVAC to join the early
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At least 47 of these machines were made (serial numbers run from 101 to 147). Six were installed at
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an option to run the 1110/80 in 494 mode was added. This emulator was implemented using microcode.
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missions. The U490 had complete control of most or all of the data readout screens in
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Also Innovators: How one computer salesman contributed to the digital revolution
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Astronautics, United States Congress House Committee on Science and (1967).
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Univac 490 Failure Finding by L. D. Boss and J. G. Wilen, August 10, 1964.
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Univac Federal Systems would further developed this system into the
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Resurrection - the Journal of the Computer Conservation Society
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A circuit board from the UNIVAC 490 computer on display at the
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The Practical Real-Time Enterprise: Facts and Perspectives
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The Univac 1232 was a military version of the UNIVAC 490.
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One Q-register and auxiliary arithmetic register 30 bits
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The machine provided the programmer with the following
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b – Operand address modification designator (3 bits)
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Ballistic Research Laboratories
magnetic-core memory
microsecond
UNIVAC
instruction set
AN/USQ-17
Seymour Cray
Control Data Corporation
AN/USQ-20
United States Navy
Naval Tactical Data System
air defense
AN/USQ-20
NASA
Gemini
Apollo
Houston Mission Control
USAF
Lockheed
Eastern
Northwest Orient
airline
Eastern Air Lines
British European Airways
Westinghouse
Alcoa
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
General Motors

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