The H-800 was pretty modern compared to the 1000! I marvel at all of them! Ed# In a message dated 2/22/2022 11:27:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: There's a mention of the Datamatic 1000 in Hugh Blair-Smith's "Left Brains for the Right Stuff" (on the development of the Apollo Guidance Computer software), and gives an account that the B&O D-1000 got flooded when a rooftop water tank burst, and hot tubes met cold water.
Early work on the AGC was hosted on the D-1000 descendent, the Honeywell 800 series (replacing an IBM 650). Blair-Smith describes the H-800 as having eight execution contexts (sets of registers).
