# Sperry Corporation American equipment and electronics company whose merger with [[wiki/Burroughs Corporation|Burroughs Corporation]] in 1986 formed [[wiki/Unisys|Unisys]]. Sperry's UNIVAC division was a major force in early computing. The Sperry-Burroughs-Unisys lineage ran parallel to the [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] communications lineage, eventually converging through defense contracts, as analyzed in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].