8 Aug
2016
8 Aug
'16
2:50 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
According to the Computers and Automation census, the
first delivery of the
440 T/S was Jul, 69. After the sale, it shows up in the census under
Honeywell
as the G440 T/S. It's a pretty rare machine. It dissappears in Mar '72
with no
known installations.
I did check the KeyData Computer Characteristics Review of 1969, but I did
not see it there. I have Vol 9 #2, not sure when exactly in 1969 or
thereabouts it was actually written or published.
I just now checked the Auerbach Computer Characteristics Digest of 4/1969
and I *did* find the GE 440 CPU there. $7,000 monthly rental, purchase
price of $311,000
In the same digest, the Honeywell model 440 is part of the H-400 system.
It's an expensive I/O thing not a CPU. At the time the Honeywell 440 was
their name for their "Optical Scanning Unit and Control" with the note:
Not available for new orders. $2530/mo and $121,440 to buy.
So, to find a Honeywell 440 nameplate prob means it was for something
produced after 1969, at least according to my sources.
Bill