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Re: Univac 9700 ad

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On 2019-12-01, Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

> On Saturday, November 30, 2019 at 1:20:11 PM UTC-7,
> hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>
>> from 1972
>> 
>> Univac brags that the price is bundled and includes all extras.
>> 
>> https://archive.org/details/Nations-Business-1972-01/page/n23
>
> I found a somewhat clearer version of that ad in Datamation:
>
> https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_datamation_14170580/page/n13
>
> ...but there seem to be no clearer pictures of the Univac 9700 to be
> found on the Web.

Still, it was clear enough that I could recognize the peripherals,
which were also used on other machines.

> Apparently few were sold; people preferred the real thing, which in 
> this case was an IBM System/360 rather than Coca-Cola.

It wasn't that 360 look[sort-of]alikes weren't popular.  Univac
sold a fair number of them, ranging from equivalents of the 360/20
up through the 370/145.  The 9700, though, never really made it.
Certainly I never saw one in the flesh.  Univac wound up dealing
with the upper-mid range by taking over RCA's line when RCA decided
to get out of computers.  RCA's VMOS (Virtual Memory Operating System)
became VS/9, so the fledgling OS/7 (probably a follow-on to the 9400's
OS/4) was, as a poster parody illustrated, flushed down the dumper.

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Univac 9700 ad hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-11-30 12:20 -0800
  Re: Univac 9700 ad Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-01 14:24 -0800
    Re: Univac 9700 ad Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-12-02 16:37 +0000

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