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The UNIVAC File Computer was sometimes regarded as a rival which delayed the introduction of the UNIVAC Solid State computer, but it would be unfortunate for the File Computer to be remembered only in that way, because it was a very innovative machine. The computer historian Saul Rosen has said that it was perhaps a little bit too innovative, since problems in getting the File Computer to work caused its deliveries to be late, adding to a reputation for lateness which Remington Rand developed during the 1950s.
