The Univac 9200 was a combination device. It was, if I remember correctly,
a minimal general purpose computer.
However, the only application I know of for the device was as a remote job
entry station for Univac 1100 series
mainframes. The Univerisity of Wisconsin had some on campus, and I used
one at the Univerisity of Wisconsin/MKE
my senior year of high school. The predecessor was the 1004. (An
interesting sidenote here was that the IBM 1410
at the UW School of Business had some special purpose hardware built for it
and a Univac 1004 emulator program
written for it).
At 05:16 PM 5/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, okay, parts of one. Big parts.
>
>For now it is in storage. Guess I have to get a basement next.
>
>I'm not even sure exactly what I've got. It is from a Univac 9200.
>Looks like a line printer and control console in one very big box,
>about the size of desk, but maybe twice as tall. Switches & lights,
>and discrete transistors. It was the box that had the "Univac 9200"
>label on it, so maybe (hopefully) it is the CPU. When I move it
>from its current temporary home to a more permanent one, I'll get
>pix & details.
>
>There is another box that I didn't get, but may still end up with
>after its winner picks a few bits out of it. Seems _he_ actually
>has customers still running these things, and needs a few specific
>parts. So even if I get it, it won't be complete. But I can't
>complain, with those parts going to keep another Univac running.
>
>Also got a card punch, which I got home by partially disassembling
>it, to make it fit in my car. When I opened it up, I found a three
>ring binder labelled "Univac Servicing Documents" - schematics,
>mech drawings, all sorts of good stuff!
>
>So, anybody know anything about 9200's? A web search didn't turn
>up much. Introduced in June 1967, 8K of memory, that's about it.
>
> Bill.
>
>(Man, this is awesome!)
>
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Received on Sun May 16 1999 - 11:54:37 BST