The first commercial production of electronic computers was under Mauchly and Eckert again, and since the company they formed was merged with another, their machines were finally called univacs. Especially noted was the one for the Census Bureau. ibm came in a bit late with 18 (20 if you count secret cryptographic users) ibm 701s. I well recall a group of us, after a session on the ibm 701 at a meeting where they talked about the proposed 18 machines, all believed this would saturate the market for many years! Our error was simply we thought only of the kinds of things we were currently doing,
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