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opantoday at 12:30 PM0 repliesview on HN

I was hoping Minnesota would be mentioned, I had an older relative that once worked for UNIVAC. I didn't realize how spread out it was.

From Wikipedia:

>The UNIVAC was manufactured at Remington Rand's former Eckert-Mauchly Division plant on W Allegheny Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1][9] Remington Rand also had an engineering research lab in Norwalk, Connecticut, and later bought Engineering Research Associates (ERA) in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1953 or 1954 Remington Rand merged their Norwalk tabulating machine division, the ERA "scientific" computer division, and the UNIVAC "business" computer division into a single division under the UNIVAC name.

I'm guessing all the coolest stuff had long since happened before my relative was there.