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Sperry Univac--side business "New Holland"; Letriever files; copiers
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hancock4
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When Remington Rand, owners of Univac, merged with Sperry to become,
Sperry Rand, they had a number of businesses. One of them was
"New Holland" which made farm and garden equipment, including tractors.
Here is a 1973 ad for their garden tractor (two pages):
https://books.google.com/books?id=htQDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA18& amp;dq=sperry%20remington&pg=PA17#v=onepage&q&f= false
(I don't think they had computer chips in the tractor.)
Sperry Remington, the typewriter division, made something called
a Lektriever, which was a high volume automated file drawer system.
https://books.google.com/books?id=WUdwrsV16HkC&lpg=PA106 1&dq=sperry%20remington&pg=PA1061#v=onepage&q&am p;f=false
Curiously, my local IBM branch office had one, with the Sperry logo
prominently featured on it, to store manuals.
Remington also made copiers:
https://books.google.com/books?id=yTUEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA4&a mp;dq=sperry%20remington&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q&f=fa lse
In 1974 Sperry Rand consolidated Sperry Remington into the
Sperry Univac division.
A 1976 Computerworld article describes the performance of various
divisions of Sperry Rand. (also an ad for the UTS 700 terminal).
https://books.google.com/books?id=oLEYjJy98MsC&lpg=PA60& amp;dq=sperry%20remington&pg=PA60#v=onepage&q=sperry %20remington&f=false
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