Datamatic 1000, circa 1960

Datamatic 1000, circa 1960

A joint venture between Honeywell and Raytheon resulted in the sprawling Datamatic 1000, circa 1960. The thirty-five-ton machine (with 3,600 vacuum tubes, 500 transistors, and 60,000 crystal diodes) was installed at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the First National Bank of Boston, the Michigan Hospital Service, the U.S. Treasury Department, and Honeywell's Minneapolis Headquarters.

Martin H. Weik

"A Third Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems," 214

Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md.

ca. 1960