On Jan 28, 2017 8:40 PM, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 01/28/2017 05:12 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
I have a certificate that my father was given in
1957 for training on
a Honeywell Datamatic 1000 computer.
Here is a summary of this 'advance' in computer technology from the
ACM:
The DATAmatic 1000 (D-1000) is a high-capacity electronic
data-processing system designed specifically for application to the
increasingly complex problems and procedures of present-day
business. The system incorporates significant new systems techniques,
as well as several basically new component developments. One of the
outstanding features of the D-1000 is its ability to feed information
from magnetic tape into the central processor at a sustained rate of
60,000 decimal-digits per second, and to deliver data after
processing back to magnetic tape at this same rate. The operational
speed of the central processor maintains full compatibility with the
high speed of information transfer. Consequently, the difficulties
caused by programs which are either tape limited or processing-time
limited do not arise in the majority of commercial applications of
this system.
Doug, you can probably re-live part of your dad's experience. There are
some Datamatic 1000 manuals on bitsavers:
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/honeywell/datamatic_1000/
Big, wide tape reels.
--Chuck
I am pretty sure I have the first print of that manual, but I thought
Datamatic was a pre-Burroughs machine not Honeywell...I am not home to
check, if you'd like me to I can Monday. That's the base 10 system,
right? I also have some orig decimal counter tubes IIRC too. I suppose
that all qualifies as pretty rare. Or I am confusing with a different,
similarly - named system.
Bill