I have found that you can use the UNIVAC news for research, but it takes some time. They often had deployment / sales announcements that are useful to learn what was sold and when. If you know what company or industry the component you have came from, you might be able to find a sales announcement about it something similar. This might help you determine who typically bought what, and you might get a clue as to the origin of your component that way.
You may have ruled other UNIVC systems sold in 1971, but are you sure what you have is not from a 9300 or 9400 system? Here is some info and a few pics of 1971 UNIVAC 9x00 cards. These were EBCDIC and compatible with IBM, you can count the bus pins of your component to verify its likely system. https://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=830 On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 5:16 PM Brent Hilpert via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > I was asked to examine a large core module, it has a UNIVAC label and part > no, manufactured in 1971 but probably a little older in design. No > providence known. > > I suspect it is from an 1108 or perhaps an 1106, based on the reasoning > presented in the web link below. I’m a little curious for a firmer > confirmation though. 1108/6 documentation on bitsavers has been very > useful, but what’s there doesn’t go deep enough into the hardware to > provide a hard confirmation. Is there even an 1108 or 6 still in existence? > > The module, and what I’ve figured out: > http://madrona.ca/e/coreUnivac/index.html < > http://madrona.ca/e/coreUnivac/index.html> > >
