Bull computer History
For other related documents in French go to "Histoire de Bull"
Site Contents summary:
an History of Bull and of acquired and parent
companies:
A summary history of the French computer manufacturer Bull and of
its parent companies, including the computer divisions of General Electric and
Honeywell that have been eventually incorporated in Bull through a somewhat
tumultuous history.
Bull Products:
the computers products designed and/or marketed by Bull.
In the present edition, some imprecision
subsists about
dates. Products performances are generally omitted. Those omissions will
be corrected later.
Card
equipments
the main products at the origin of Compagnie des Machines Bull
Series 150
Gamma 3
Gamma 3 contributors
Series
300
Gamma 10
Gamma 60
an off-course venture of Machines Bull into large computer business
Gamma
60 contributors
Small Systems
(Gamma 5, GE-55, Level 61)
Bull
small systems contributors
Other pre-1968 Bull products
Gamma M-40,
a Bull process control computer
Programmateur
numérique and Geadac
Gamma 140,
a product only shipped by the Czech company Tesla
Gamma 140 contributors
RCA systems
close-gap first OEM import
Gamma 30
(RCA 301)
Gamma 40 (RCA 3301)
not delivered
SEA systems
the other French computer company in 1950s and early 1960s
SEA CAB500
SEA 3900-4000
CAE systems
RW-300
RW-530
CAE 510
130
military computers
SDS systems
CII systems
the Plan Calcul alternative to an "Americanized" Bull
10010
Iris 50 family
Iris 80
family
Mitra
Unidata
Series X
Series Y : Presentation
(.pdf format)
"The Y Project" (in French
.pdf
format )
Transac systems
T15/20
General Electric systems
GE-100 (Olivetti-General Electric)
GE-200
GE-400
Datanet-30
Datanet
355
Honeywell
H-400/800
H-316/516
H-200/2000
GE later Honeywell
the proprietary product lines of the 1970-current period
Large
Systems (GE-600, Level66, DPS-9000)
Multics
history site
GCOS
64 and GCOS 7 product line
GCOS7 product
line description
GCOS64 origin
GCOS64/7 contributors
GCOS 62 and GCOS 4 product line
GCOS
6 minicomputers product line
Distributed
Systems Architecture
Bull Microcomputers
Micral
Zenith
68000
products (Honeywell DPX, SM-90 - Bull SPS-7, DPX-2)
MIPS
alliance
PowerPC
based servers
Intel
based servers
Isis supercomputer project
Bull peripherals
Card equipments
Printers
Magnetic devices
Terminals
Financial Products
Smart Card CP-8
ATM
Major Customers
under construction. It is contemplated to summarize
significant user-centered applications using Bull technology.
North America
France
Italy
U.K.
Benelux
other
Bull history FAQ
Bull miscellaneous Folklore
FEB museum
Glossary
Bull computers bibliography