Computer Systems

	250/260/300 Selection:
250
Product Number: 45251A
Introduced: 1978
Price: $24500
HP 250	Catalogue Reference: 1979, page 616

Description:

Donated by: Kassulke Transport, South Australia.

The HP 250 was designed to be a user-installable, multi-user system. It ran BASIC system software and could support up to 10 users. The original 250 came with an expansive cabinet that included a keyboard built in to the desktop and a terminal monitor that could slide along the desktop and swivel. The 250 came standard with 32K RAM expandable to 64K, dual eight inch floppy drives, HP-IB interface and a 2631A printer. The 250 used an HP-designed, 16-bit NMOS processor.

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