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In 2008 I started to search the Internet for a Honeywell H-316 minicomputer. Why? Simply for nostalgic reasons.
This $4600 memory card for the IBM System/360 2821 Control Unit was used to store one printed line (132 characters)Back in 1969, at the age of 18, I got my first job in the industry with IBM in Sweden as a Test Engineer for the System/360 2821 Control Unit. The 2821 in its minimum configuration had one 1403 Line Printer attached to it and in its largest configuration it controlled three 1403 Line Printers and a 2540 Card Reader/Punch. The input and output data from and to the CPU came via the I/O Channel.
1972 I got a job with Honeywell’s Controls Division as a Regional Systems Hardware and Software Specialist for Honeywell’s Delta 2000 Building Automation system. An option for the Delta 2000 was the Honeywell H-316 minicomputer, hence my interest in the H-316. I took my first Assembly language programming class on a H-716, which was how I learned how a computer operated. Honeywell later came out with the successor to the Delta 2000, the Delta 1000 which was based on the IMP-16 chipset (the Delta 1000 CPU was in fact almost a copy of National Semiconductors IMP-16 development system but with extra I/O slots for communication boards for the field panels.) If you have a National Semiconductors IMP-16 development system sitting around I would be interested in including it in my collection.)
Below is a picture of my Data General Nova 3/12 being restored
MV/8000 - Data General's first 32-bit computer
Tommie Mademark is the founder and CEO of Fox Consult and this blog is his personal trip back in time.
#1 by Mike on Tuesday 15 June, 2010 - 06:41
I’m dying to get my hands on an old Honeywell 716. Anyone have an ideas? I worked for a computer communications company who utilized H316, H716, and H6/06 minis in their offerings.