Hardware

Grandstand Video Sports Centre 5000 is a pong console made by Grandstand in 1977.

Grandstand Video Sports Centre 6000 is a pong console made by Grandstand in 1977.

Grandstand Video Sports Centre SD070 is a pong console made by Grandstand in 1978.

Not to be confused with Grandstand Colour Programmable SD070.

The Grid Compass (written GRiD by its manufacturer GRiD Systems Corporation) was one of the first laptop computers when the initial model was introduced in April 1982 (the model 1101).

The…

The GridCase was about the same size and featured the same robust magnesium case as Compass model, but Grid forwent the Compass's expensive and power-hungry electroluminescent display and bubble…

The GridLite was less innovative than the earlier Grid versions and was comparable to many other laptops of the time. However, its 4.77 MHz clock rate clearly compromised its performance front of…

Grundig Tank Battle is a first generation console released by Grundig in 1978. It has 1 tank game and 4 Pong games.

Grundig Telespiel 1 is a TV plug-in module. Usable only with Grundig TV.

GTE Tele Pong was a Pong console released in Spain in 1976. It is identical to Allied's Name Of The Game II.

The GTE Tele Pong IV is a 4-player Pong console featuring the following games: Tenis, Soccer, Squash, pistola. It used the MPS-7600-001 chip and comes with a light gun. It is identical to Allied's…

The H-136 was a line printer for the HIPAC103. It was connected to the HIPAC103 processing unit, and could print large volumes of calculation results online.

The H-144 was a tension arm type magnetic tape unit, with an 8-track magnetic head and a recording density of 169BPI. It was used as an external storage and high-speed input/output device for…

The H-1562 (key punch) was a card punch used to create data for input to a computer by punching holes in an 80-column card while offline.

With the H-1564 (key punch with printing), it was possible to punch cards, and at the same time print on the left side of the card to enable a human to read the numerals and characters expressed…

The H-1592 (verifier) was a keyboard card verifier used to check whether or not a card was punched correctly, before passing it to an electronic computer for reading.

In 1961, Hitachi, Ltd. was developing computer systems through technical tie-ups with the RCA Corporation and Anelex Corporation (U.S.) In accordance with this, Hitachi Koki took charge of printer…

Hitachi announced the H-6254 continuous-form page printer in June 2000 as the replacement to the previous H-6274 model. The H-6254 had approximately 13 percent better print performance than the H-…

Hitachi announced the H-6255 continuous-form page printer in March 1999 as the replacement to the previous H-6275 model. The H-6255 had approximately 28 percent better print performance than the H…

Hitachi announced the H-6257 continuous-form page printer in July 1997 as the replacement to the previous H-6276 model. The H-6257 had approximately 1.5-times the performance of the H-6276, with a…

Hitachi developed printers with improved ease-of-use by, for example, reducing/improving volume, weight, power consumption and price, and providing automatic paper loading features. Here, they…

Hitachi developed printers with improved ease-of-use by, for example, reducing/improving volume, weight, power consumption and price, and providing automatic paper loading features. Here, they…

The H-6281 was a low-volume cut-sheet page printer that was a compact (required 66 percent less installation space than the previous H-6286 model), low-speed (20 pages per minute) model from the H…

The H-6283 was a cut-sheet page printer that was a compact (required 63 percent less installation space than the previous H-6286 model), low-speed (40 pages per minute) model from the H-628X…

The H-6284 was a cut-sheet page printer that was a compact (required 50 percent less installation space), mid-speed (60 pages per minute) model from the H-628X series. Hitachi announced the…

In the Japanese cut paper printer market, there was a growing need for high-speed printers and printers capable of double-sided printing, and in 1990 Hitachi responded by shipping the H-6286…

The H-6485-1 was an 18-track magnetic tape cartridge unit which realized a large capacity (600MB/tape with Hitachi compression) by using a thin-film magnetic head, and cartridge tape—which, at the…

Hitachi began shipping the large-system-oriented H-6486-1 in March 1991 as a magnetic tape unit using 18-track cartridges for automation and sequential processing of large amounts of magnetic tape…

The H-6488-1 was designed to address growing security needs for magnetic tape cartridges that were not only increasing in capacity and performance but also increasingly portable as backups of…

Hitachi began shipping the H-6495, a magnetic tape unit using a new 128-track format, in June 1997. The 128-track format, along with three-times data compression, enabled high-density recordings…

The H-6585 magnetic disk unit was developed as a device with twice the capacity of the H-8598 (630MB/actuator). The basic system of this unit derived from the H-8576, but I/O control was done…

For this unit, Hitachi decided to exploit its own in-house disk manufacturing capability, and eliminate the previous 14-inch disk, develop a new 9.5-inch disk, and use a thin-film head for the…

The H-6587 disk unit was developed as the successor of the H-6586 disk, and inherited its basic system. It had a capacity of 2.92GB, which was the highest in the world at the time. The disk…

The H-6591 and H-6595, announced by Hitachi in May 1995, were disk array subsystems with a new architecture that delivered better performance and higher reliability through a combination sized for…

Hitachi’s H-6593 and H-6596 disk array subsystems, announced in February 1998, inherited the features of the successful H-6592 / H-6595 series, such as uninterrupted operation and a high degree of…

The H-6591 and H-6595, announced by Hitachi in May 1995, were disk array subsystems with a new architecture that delivered better performance and higher reliability through a combination sized for…

The H-65A1 and H-65A5, announced by Hitachi in June 2000, were the world’s largest and fastest disk array subsystems and supported large-scale SAN environments and storage consolidation that…

The H-6951-1 Magnetic Tape Cartridge Library System was developed to meet the need for automation, driven by the increase in the number of backup magnetic tapes, and the increased work load for…

In response to demands for greater storage capacity and the ability to accommodate more tapes in a magnetic tape library, Hitachi began shipping the H-6952-1 and H-6952-2 as successors to the H-…

It was increasingly obvious by 1996 that small-scale system users, in addition to large-scale system users, were demanding around-the-clock magnetic-tape automation and smaller units for better…

In 1981, kanji (Chinese character) processing could only be done with large systems, and there was a growing need to realize such processing on small and mid-size systems. In that year, Hitachi…

This cut paper printer, including mechanism parts, was developed independently by Hitachi based on technology developed for their continuous paper printers. Software interface specifications for…

Around 1975, there was a strong desire among users to switch computer output from kana letters to kanji (Chinese characters). But this was difficult to achieve with conventional approaches using…

These units were connected to all L Series and M Series systems via a dedicated interface, and were developed to reduce size and cost, and improve reliability.

These were card readers with a mark reading mechanism for the HITAC 8000 Series. They could optically read data marked with pencil or homogeneous black ink on a card, and added an optical mark…

The H-8239 used the vertical feed method. It could send a signal to the electronic computer immediately after reading each character, and could also receive signals from the electronic computer…

In June 1973, a project to promote Japanese-made computers began under the guidance of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and it was decided that Hitachi, Ltd. and Fujitsu would…

Previously, punched cards were output first, and then those cards were placed in a translation/printing machine, but the H-8285 card printer/punch eliminated this troublesome step, and greatly…

The H-8287/88 could also be equipped with a column binary reading mechanism (for reading single cards punched with the data of two cards), and the H-8287 could be equipped with a mark card reader…

The H-8287 card reader and H-8298 card reader were developed as card devices for the HITAC M Series. Speed and other specifications were the same as previous models, but these new readers had many…

This unit connected to the processing unit via the H-8297 or H-8298 card reader, according to standard input/output specifications for the HITAC M Series.