MARCH's UNIVAC

For the past couple of years we in MARCH have been teasing people with the knowledge that we have a UNIVAC mainframe. :) It's a model 1219-B (1965 transistor system) used on Navy ships for things like radar and weapons system control. This weekend we finally got around to taking some good pictures of it in our storage warehouse. The computer was a gift to us from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Here are the five main racks: http://snarc.net/1219b/all_comp.jpg. Left to right: A/D converter (ignore the cable spools on its pallet), data recorder / IO hub, one of two identical tape drives, both CPUs. Here are three of the four IO consoles (paper tape below, TTY above): http://snarc.net/1219b/all_io.jpg. All are identical. The second tape drive and the fourth paper tape/TTY console are on on display in our museum. Now for some close-up pictures. 1. A/D control panel: http://snarc.net/1219b/close_control.jpg. 1a. Details: http://snarc.net/1219b/close_control_detail.jpg 2. CPU: http://snarc.net/1219b/close_cpu.jpg (unfortunately both CPUs are missing the top UNIVAC nameplates.) 3. Tape drive: http://snarc.net/1219b/close_tape.jpg 4. Data recorder and I/O hub: http://snarc.net/1219b/close_datarecorder_io.jpg 5. Paper tape / TTY console: http://snarc.net/1219b/close_io.jpg No, we haven't tried to power it up ... it might be another few years before we get there, plus, we're missing the core memory, software, various important cables, and most of the manuals. We also don't have the electronic terminal or the line printer. Still, it's one damn impressive-looking computer, and we're very proud to own it! For context: each CPU weighs about 1,500 pounds. Each tape drive cabinet weighs about 1,000 pounds (you can see it has two drives inside the cabinet; each is a 7MB, 7-track tape.) We hope to be able to take this out of storage and put it on static display at VCF East but that depends on a bunch of other factors, like whether our forklift is working, etc.....