Honeywell Series 200 and 2000
70C-480-01a Computers Honeywell Series 200 and 2000 MANAGEMENT SUMMARY Through a succession of hardware enhance The Honeywell Series 200, introduced in December 1963, ments, more advanced oper~ting systems, and ranks as one of the computer industry's broadest, new peripheral devices, Honeywell has evolved longest-lived, and most successful product lines. After a its long-lived Series 200 computer family into highly profitable eight-year marketing career, the Series the current Series 2000. Models 2020 through 200 was effectively superseded by the Honeywell Series 2070 of the Series 2000 are now the actively 2000, announced in January 1972. Designed primarily as marketed processors in this extensive product program-compatible growth systems for Honeywell's large line. They offer attractive price/performance customer base of small-scale Series 200 users, the and unique flexibility for on-site upgrading of capabilities and pricing of the Series 2000 computers both rented and purchased systems. make them attractive to many users of competitive equipment as well. With the advent of the Series 2000, Honeywell's CHARACTERISTICS marketing efforts in the medium-scale field naturally MANUFACTURER: Honeywell Information Systems Inc .• shifted from the Series 200 to the newer product line. But 60 Walnut Street, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 02181. Telephone the Series 200 peripheral equipment and software remain (617) 237-4100. very much alive as integral components of the newer Series 2000 systems. MODELS: Series 200, Models 105 through 8200, and Series 2000, Models 2020 through 2070. The original Honeywell 200 system was conceived with DATA FORMATS one specific marketing goal in mind: replacement of thousands of IBM.
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