UNIVAC 9000 series

The UNIVAC 9000 series (9200, 9300, 9400, 9700) is a discontinued line of computers introduced by Sperry Rand in the mid-1960s to compete with the low end of the IBM System/360 series.

The 9200 and 9300 (which differ only in CPU speed) implement the same restricted 16-bit subset of the System/360 instruction set as the IBM 360/20,[1] while the UNIVAC 9400 implements a subset of the full 32-bit System/360 instruction set.

Since the 9000 series was intended as direct competitors to IBM, they use 80-column cards and EBCDIC character encoding.

It uses an oscillating-type bar instead of the drums that had been used until this point, and runs at speeds up to 300 lines per minute.

As Sperry moved into the 1970s, they expanded the 9000 family with the introduction of the 9700 system in 1971.