2 Dec
2006
2 Dec
'06
9:50 a.m.
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 09:38 -0800, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 2 Dec 2006 at 18:15, Tore Sinding Bekkedal wrote:
http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/panint.htm is an interesting read. The
9300 was certainly an internal, pre-Spectra job. Also, the 9400 was less
compatible than the Spectra series, and probably not based on it.
I recently discovered a UNIVAC 9400 and 9300 in
the museum of
telecommunications' warehouse here in Norway. These are machines
replicating the System/360 instruction set (of the mod. 30 and 20,
respectively). The 9300, I don't currently know much about, but speaking
for the 9400, the card punch, card reader, and line printer have been
preserved. They seem in excellent condition.
Aren't the 9000-series Univacs not home-grown products, but rather
the follow-on result of the RCA Spectra acquisition by Univac? IIRC,
they're nothing like the 1100-series at all.
Nope - as I said - they're S/360... I guess "clones" might be the
expression. Still very beautiful machine. The front panel is very unique
in that by twisting knobs to the right of the blinkenlights labels, you
actually mechanically turn a "label cylinder" with different labels, and
presumably the lights would change function with it.
I haven't seen the 1108 in person yet, but I would very much like to.
-Tore