Here's a small collection of big iron. "Charly" has a couple of IBM machines: a 7094 and a System/360. There's a really hard to spot ICT 1301 panel in the "Doomwatch" episode "No Room for Error". Finally the "Blake's 7" episode "Space Fall" (for which we had already recorded an ICT 1301) also has panels from a Sperry Univac 9400 and, making its Starring-the-Computer debut, the Sperry UNIVAC 9200/9300.

http://www.starringthecomputer.com/newsitem.html?i=2024-10-20%2018:04

If you can, please pitch in to help The Computer Museum in the small town of Camburzano, Italy.

They've got hold of a haul of ancient big iron in surprisingly good shape and they need funds to safeguard this rare machinery:

We are about to save an enormous quantity of extremely rare machines, some of which may be unique, dating back as far as 70 years.
Among the equipment to be saved are machines from both #IBM and #Remington #Rand for the creation and management of punch cards (one of the earliest methods of loading programs), huge #Sperry #Univac #mainframes complete with their tape units, disks, and printers, as well as the earliest #Olivetti systems. All the machines are in astonishingly good condition and perhaps, with good care, even functional.

http://www.museodelcomputer.org/index.php/nav=Home.01

Donate here:

https://fundrazr.com/computermuseum?ref=ab_1uTY6r4Iweg1uTY6r4Iweg

Working on getting this big boy cleaned and situated this week...

1968 sales quote to Princeton for a #UNIVAC 1108. 131K words (36b) of core memory at $915K is about $0.20 per bit! They bought an IBM 360/91 instead. #ComputerHistory

1967: Great rant by Boeing's data center manager about IBM maintenance problems -- reprinted by UNIVAC! Full PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zb6s_Ti7ON-6DNGg8VB2VvLSbh72_bgM/view?usp=sharing #ComputerHistory #IBM360 #UNIVAC