Have you searched the bitsavers archives?
Http://bitsavers.org

Also you might join the CLASSIC COMPUTER discord. Lotsa knowledgeable people 
there and a few that have written emulators. I would not be surprised if 
someone has already written an eniac emulator.

Here is the discord link.

<https://discord.gg/hw43DsSd>
Join the ClassicCMP Discord Server!<https://discord.gg/hw43DsSd>
discord.gg<https://discord.gg/hw43DsSd>
[X]<https://discord.gg/hw43DsSd>

Post your question in General.

Might also check Groups.io for a group that might be specific to Eniac.


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On Sep 3, 2025, at 13:56, Brian L. Stuart via cctalk <[email protected]> 
wrote:

Apologies in advance to anyone who gets this multiple times.
I know a number of you are on more that one of these lists.

I'm looking for some information on a couple of the early
IBM unit record devices, in particular the Type 512A and
the Type 518.  Ideally, I'd like to get the mechanical
dimensions in enough detail to create a CAD model.

The background is that I'd like to improve the model that
I'm using in my ENIAC simulator and I'm involved with a
school in Arizona that's working on a project to build a
full-scale model of the ENIAC.  There's a letter from
IBM in the ENIAC archives that suggest the use of the
512A and the 518.  So I'm pretty sure those are the ones
they used, but I haven't really been able to find any
details about them.  We've found a fair amount of
information on the Type 513, and from photographs, the
punch used on the machine seems similar to the 513, but
is smaller.

Thanks in advance,
BLS

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