HP1000 F Series - System B
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HP1000 F-series Complete Minicomputer System
This computer was installed on site at the Shell's Thornton Research Centre, from where it was disposed in early 2003.
This computer was installed in 1983 by a company called Autosense Equipment Ltd from Bicester. These computers were used to control the Engine Test Cells located in building 55 (ELMA) via a highway linked to a Honeywell TDC 2000 System. This system acted as the interface between the engine control systems and the computer. It ran on customised software based on one of the old languages and ran as a pair known as a Master and Slave arrangement with the Slave being a back up should the Master fail - which evidently it frequently did. Autosense were taken over by Schenck who now are Horiba.
The system is a HP3350 Laboratory Automation Systems and consists of:
HP-1000 F Series Computer, HP 12990B Memory Extender HP 12979B 1/O Extender HP 7970E Tape Drive HP 7925 Disk Drives 3xHP2393A terminals,
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