The
JOHNNIAC was an early computer built by the
RAND Corporation (not to be confused with
Remington Rand, maker of the contemporaneous
UNIVAC I computer) that was based on the
von Neumann architecture that had been pioneered on the
IAS machine. It was named in honor of von Neumann, short for
'''John''' v. Neumann Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer. JOHNNIAC is arguably the longest-lived early computer, being used almost continuously from 1953 for over 13 years before finally being shut down on February 11, 1966, logging over 50,000 operational hours.