Automatic computing topped the list of needs for a new laboratory being built in the early 1950s by the University of California on the site of a decommissioned naval air station in Livermore, now known as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A UNIVAC I was ordered even before the official opening. An air-conditioned building for the machine was the first major construction project at Livermore, and movers arrived with the computer in January 1953. The UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was 25 feet by 50 feet in length, contained 5,600 tubes, 18,000 crystal diodes, and 300 relays. No photographer credited, dated 1953. Colorized.