The Honeywell 200 was a character-oriented[1]: 70C-4S0-01n two-address commercial computer introduced by Honeywell in December 1963,[2] the basis of later models in Honeywell 200 Series, including 1200, 1250, 2200, 3200, 4200 and others,[3][4] and the character processor of the Honeywell 8200 (1968).[5][6][7]
Introduced to compete with IBM's 1401, the H200 is two or three times faster and, with software support, most of the time[8][9] can execute IBM 1401 programs without need for their recompilation or reassembly. The Liberator marketing campaign exploited this compatibility, and was credited in later Honeywell publicity statements with stalling the sales of IBM 1401 machines. Honeywell claimed an initial rush of hundreds of orders for the H200 that itself stalled when IBM countered[10][11] with a marketing emphasis on their System 360 product range that was then under development.
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- ^ Series 200 installation dates:
- computersAndAutomation :: Computer Census 1962-74. Jul 1974. p. 41 (301).
- ^ Models in Series 200; model 200 was transistorized, later models used IC
- "CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SERIES 200 PROCESSOR MODELS". Honeywell Series 200 and 2000 (PDF). Apr 1974. pp. 70C-480-01b - 70C-480-01c (2-3).
- ^ Harper, Charles A. (1969). Handbook of electronic packaging. McGraw-Hill. pp. 12–4. ISBN 9780070266711.
- The European Computer Users Handbook. Computer Consultants. 1968. pp. 1–130.
- ^ New "Honeywell 8200" computer & other equipment inspected by Sir John Goodsell (Photo), 1970, retrieved 2019-02-26
- ^ Strohl, Elaine K.; Kilgore, Yvonne H.; Sass, Margo A.; Goldstein, Gordon D. (October 1965). "COMPUTERS AND DATA PROCESSING, NORTH AMERICA: 4. Honeywell, Inc., H-8200, Wellesley, Massachusetts". Digital Computer Newsletter. 17 (4). OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA: 6–9. Archived from the original on March 8, 2021.
- HATCH JR., THEODORE F.; GEYER, JAMES B. (Dec 1968). "Hardware/software Interaction on the Honeywell Model 8200". Managing Requirements Knowledge, International Workshop On(AFIPS): 891. doi:10.1109/AFIPS.1968.108.
- H8200 Hardware Reference Prelim. Honeywell. Aug 1967. Alt URL
- ^ Terry, Edward (2012-06-07). "Using Liberator". The IBM 1401 Demo Lab and Restoration Project Computer History Museum. 1401 Competition, mainly the Honeywell 200 with Liberator software. Archived from the original on 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
- ^ ""Most of the time ... a successful “Liberation”. If not, then ... patching the 1401 object deck before conversion."
- ^ Dirk de Wit (1994). The Shaping of Automation: A Historical Analysis of the Interaction. Uitgeverij Verloren. ISBN 9065504141.
- ^ "IBM System 360 came as a response to the introduction of the Honeywell 200."