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This book "COMPUTER CHARACTERISTICS QUARTERLY" by adams associates
was donated to the Computer History Museum by Omri Serlin
and scanned, OCRed, HTMLized by Ed Thelen

This book is interesting because it lists the names of computers active in early 1967, some of their characteristics, and their manufacturers, in U.S., Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and The Netherlands.

Please Be Aware - There are numerous omissions and errors in this document. Examples are:

• There is no hint that the CDC-6600 was as fast as it actually was. The report format has no provision to describe interleaved memory, multiple execution units, instruction cache, etc. nor their effect. There is no benchmark data.
• The CDC-6800 never was never constructed, even though "First Delivery" is shown as 6/67.

The Pocket Reference is divided into 3 sections

• Section I - CENTRAL PROCESSORS - (pages 1 - 112).
• Section II - PERIPHERAL DEVICES - (pages 113 - 222) is so condensed as to be almost useless and is not included.
• Section III - CATEGORIZATIONS - (pages 223 - 258) - work in progress
• Directory of Manufacturers - (Pages 259 - 264) - work in progress

Editorial Board	Charles W. Adams John T. Gilmore, Jr. David E. Weisberg
Director of Publications	Alder M. Jenkins
Editor	Roger T. Baust
Assistant Editor	Robert D. MacCormack
European Correspondent	William M. Newman
Editorial Assistant	Natalie C. Latham
Circulation Manager	Paul English

How to subscribe to the Quarterly

The Computer Characteristics Quarterly is issued four times a year and mailed to subscribers at the end of each quarter. It is available at $25.00 for an annual subscription and $7.50 for a single copy. These prices include postage by first class mail to subscribers in the Eastern parts of the United States and Canada, and air mail to subscribers else where. A discount of 20 percent is allowed on 10 to 99 subscriptions or single copies mailed to one address; discount rates on quantities of 100 or more are available on request. Accredited universities, colleges and secondary schools, as well as full-time faculty members and students thereof, receive a discount of 50 percent of the net price on any order.

To subscribe to the Quarterly, you need only write to Adams Associates, give a precise and complete mailing address, and indicate the quarter (first, second, third or fourth) in which you wish your subscription to start. Copies of single issues can be ordered in the same way. You may enclose a check or be billed later.

Copyright © 1967 by Adams Associates Incorporated, the publisher. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by an information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.

Printed in the United States of America

About Adams Associates .	iv
What's new?	v
SECTION I CENTRAL PROCESSORS	1
Listed alphabetically by manufacturer and country: United Slates 6, Denmark 66, England 66, France 76, Germany (West) 82, Italy 90, Japan 90, Sweden 108, The Netherlands 110.
SECTION II PERIPHERAL DEVICES .	113
Part A: Characteristics of Devices . . . 114 - Auxiliary Storage 115, Magnetic Tape 135, Card Equipment 155, Line Printers 177, Paper-Tape Equipment 193, Display Units 211.
Part B: Device Interface Charts . . . 219
SECTION III CATEGORIZATIONS	223
Part A: System Configurations . . . 225 Basic Card System 226, Basic Tape System 228, Basic Secondary Storage System 230, Typical Secondary Storage System 232.
Part B: Applications . . . 235 Small-Medium Business 236, Medium-Large Business 238, Small-Medium .Scientific 2- 10, Medium-Large Scientific 212, Real-Time 244.
Part C: Internal Storage Characteristics . . . 247 Bits per Cycle 249, Bits per Microsecond 254.
Directory of Manufacturers	. 259

About Adams Associates . . ,

Though well known as the publisher of the Computer Characteristics Quarterly, Adams Associates is more widely recognized as one of the country's leading computer consulting and programming firms. While the services offered by Adams Associates extend to all areas of computer technology, its reputation stems primarily from outstanding accomplishments in a number of specialized fields, including:

• Graphic display and man-machine interaction
• On-line control
• Data communications
• Data reduction
• Simulation programming
• Information storage and retrieval
• Management information systems
• System design
• Computer evaluation and selection
• Computer technology seminars

Being pioneers as well as specialists in these fields, Adams Associates long recognized the need for an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on and analysis of all graphic display hardware, software, applications and trends. It answered this need by applying its extensive knowledge and broad experience to the publication, in July 1966, of The Computer Display Review. Though still in its first year, the Review, which is updated every four months, has already become a highly regarded and widely used reference on the subject of alphanumeric, line-drawing and related displays.

What's new . , . ?

Much of what's new in this issue of the Computer Characteristics Quarterly is already apparent- its new cover and size, its increased coverage of the salient features of central processors, all of which now appear in one section and are listed alphabetically by country and manufacturer; its expansion of the characteristics of peripheral devices and their inclusion in a separate section, its addition of charts and tables designed to provide comparative and useful information of various kinds.

What is not so apparent is that twenty-eight new central processors have been added to Section I. These include the introduction of Business Information Technology, Inc. and its 480, and Standard Computer Corporation and its IC 6000 series. The other additions are the Digital Equipment PDP-10, EAI 640, Honeywell DDP-416 and DDP-516, Hughes H3118M, Scientific Control 6700, Scientific Data SIGMA 5, SEL 840 MP, Westinghouse PRODAC 250, EELM 4/75, Bull GE GAMMA 55 and GAMMA 145 (formerly GAMMA 141), CAE 90/10, 90/40, 90/80 and 10070, Siemens 302, 304 and 305, Telefunken TR86, Fujitsu FACOM 230/10, 20, 30 and 50, Nippon Electric NEAC 2200/50, Toshiba TOSBAC 7000/60, and Philips PR 8000.

Forty-six computers have been deleted from this issue because they are no longer being marketed and the number of them still in operation is insignificant. These computers will appear, with others deleted in the past, in the Annual Supplement to the Quarterly.

Received too late for inclusion herein were announcements of the InterData Model 3, Hewlett Packard HP-2116A and Control Data 3150. Their characteristics will be reported, of course, in the next issue of the Quarterly.

Pages 6 through 112 of Section I - CENTRAL COMPUTERS - are photocopied. The pages are organized by country, then manufacturer in alphabetical order, about 6 processors per pair of pages. The following pages are for machines manufactured were in United States Adage Ambilog 200 and others Beckman 420 and others Burroughs B300 and others Collins C-8500 and others Control Data 1700 and others Control Data 3600 and others Control Data 8092 and others Digital Electronics DIGIAC 3080 and others Digital Equipment PDP-7 and others EAI 8400 and others General Electric 235 and others General Electric 635 and others General Electric GE/PAC 4060 and others Honeywell 200/8200 and others Honeywell DDP-116 and others Honeywell H610, H620 and others IBM 360/30 and others IBM 360/90 and others IBM 1620 and others IBM 7070 and others IBM 7094 II and others NCR 315/RMC-502 and others Philco 220/210 and others Raytheon 520 and others RCA 301 and others Scientific Control 660/5 and others Scientific Data SDS 9300 and others Standard Computer IC6000/19, 29, 39 and others Univac 1004 II, III and others Univac 9200 and others Manufactured in United States, Denmark, England Westinghouse PRODAC 500 and others Manufactured in ENGLAND EELM 4/70. 4/75 and others ELLIOTT 4120 and others GEC S.2 and others ICT 1905 and others Manufactured in FRANCE BULL GE Gamma 10 and others BULL GE Gamma 115 and others CAE 90/10 and others Manufactured in France, Germany (West) SEA 4000 and others Manufactured in GERMANY (West) SIEMENS 304 and others SIEMENS 4004 and others TELEFUNKEN TR440 and others Manufactured in Italy & JAPAN OLIVETTI GE 115 and others Manufactured in JAPAN FUJITSU FACOM 222 and others FUJITSU FACOM 241 and others HITACHI HITAC 5020 and others HITACHI HITAC 8500 and others MITSUBISHI MELCOM 3100/10, 30, 50 and others NIPPON ELECTRIC NEAC 2200/400 and others NIPPON ELECTRIC NEAC 3800 and others TOSHIBA TOSBAC 4200 and others Manufactured in JAPAN and SWEDEN TOSHIBA TOSBAC 5400/10 and others Manufactured in SWEDEN and THE NETHERLANDS DATASAAB D22 and others End of Section I

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