the fact it is rebranded suggests an older product indeed.... with a new name tag so who owns this thing now!???
Ed# In a message dated 8/8/2016 2:50:47 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Al Kossow <[email protected]> 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
