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The Univac 9200 (Univac 9300) is a punch card computing data center from 1966. It is @@ -27,5 +27,5 @@
UNIVAC 9300 electronic data processing system, with its components (left @@ -71,9 +71,38 @@ amount of data that a modern digital camera produces for a single picture. Stored on punch cards 5 MB weigh about 160 kg while the cabinet housing the -cards has a volume of about 0.5 cubic meters (about 500 liters of volume).
+cards has a volume of about 0.5 cubic meters (about 500 liters of volume).The new Univac 9200
+It is nearly unbelievable: Since September 2015 we have a second UNIVAC 9200
+in the museum! It is sheer luck when such a precious old machine survives so
+many years (1967 to 2015) without any major damage at all. This particular
+machine was stored under near ideal conditions in the cellar of a
+municipality before it found its way to our museum where it will be restored
+to running condition again. Fortunately, the machine was professionally
+decommissioned so all necessary cables are still there and intact - this is
+true luck since often cables just get cut during decommissioning of large
+computers.
+
+The machine is different in some respects to our other machine of the same
+type: The bar-printer is slower (we expect a higher quality of print outs due
+to that fact), the memory is fully expanded to 32 kB as compared to 8 kB of
+the other machine, and the punch unit is a rare "Read-Punch". This device is
+capable of reading pre-punched cards and punching results onto the very same
+cards.
+
+The machine will be restored in the near future.
We would like to thank the municipality of Rheine and in particular Mr. M. +Lange, who donated the machine to the museum. + + +
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