A triumph of mobile computing was achieved on this date in 1961. By our 21st century standards, this involved some truly heavy lifting. Rolling actually. A division of the Sperry Rand Corporation equipped a trailer truck to haul a UNIVAC I computer from New York City down to North Carolina to process data for the Douglas Aircraft Corporation. The UNIVAC I, fully assembled, weighed in at a nimble 7,237 pounds. In 2010, nearly 92 million U.S. households — about 77 percent — had computers. In marked contrast to the unwieldy UNIVAC of 1961, over 22 million of those were handheld devices. Of course, many of those people and millions more have access to computers through work, schools, libraries and community centers. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau, online at <www.census.gov>.
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Photos of the County Commissioners hard at work on their new tablets–priceless!