• 1961

Hardware Description

The Honeywell 290 Computer is a general purpose, internally stored program digital computer especially designed for use as a highly reliable on-line computer for process or operation monitoring and-or control. The H290 features all solid state circuitry, high speed, low clock rate, both core and drum memory, con-current input, output and compute operation. The H290 can be furnished with over 70 instructions selectable by the user from a list of over 150 available instructions. The H290 Computer with associated peripheral equipment can accept over 4,000 inputs at scanning speeds up to 1,000 points per second, perform calculations in real-time and produce over 4,000 outputs.