A friend has sent me these documents with permission to share them.
The first document does not have a year in the title. The timeline included does not go past 1979.
The second one has "1982" on the cover, but the timeline is only one year forward, just to 1980. My assumption is that the "1982" document was prepared near the end of 1981 in preparation for the 1982 year. If the books of 1981 were not closed, the history makes sense to only include history up to 1980.
Based on that assumption, I am assuming the first document is the "1981" corporate profile, probably written at the end of 1980.
Download both of these from The Internet Archive.
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| ~1981 Universal company profile |
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| 1982 Universal company profile |
What intrigues me most about these is the timelines given for the machines. Many of the early machines are on the list are ahead of when I have evidence of them being released. Typically by a year or two, which might be expected given how spotty information we have from 1975 and earlier is.
But there is one big mystery staring us right in the face:
