Honeywell Bull

From: Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com <(Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com)>
Date: Wed May 19 11:41:59 1999

>> >Of course Honeywell Bull also sold some odd-ball systems to go with their
>> >Mainframes. My favorite being a "HoneyMac". I believe these all had the
>> >original manufacturers name on them still though.


[...]

> Before those they had some really funky IBM PC's, the only reason they were
> preferable to the big read boxes they called terminals was because the
> keyboards were better, and the screen was easier to read.


I remember a system called "Micro System Executive", which was based on a design
from Future Technology Systems, a company that Honeywell bought. I have an
FTS-86 somewhere (probably mostly Honeywell with the amount of board swapping
that went on) which I must get working...

FTS sold this machine as "The non-compatible compatible". It was not IBM
compatible. You could have 896K bytes of main memory, rather than 640. It ran
Concurrent CPM, not (MS) DOS. And yet Lotus 123 would load straight of an IBM
disk and draw graphs and things with no hassle...

Philip.
Received on Wed May 19 1999 - 11:41:59 BST