HP 250
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HP 250 Computer System
The HP 250 was a multiuser business computer by Hewlett Packard combining the BASIC language and IMAGE database management. It was produced by the General Systems Division, but was a major repackaging of desktop computers such as the HP 9835 which had been sold into small business configurations. It was built into a large desk with a wide monitor with screen labeled function keys buttons placed below on-screen labels, a configuration now used in ATMs and gas pumps.
It was advertised in 1978. It was much more successful than the more sophisticated and evidently internally competing HP 300 Amigo. It lives on in the form of emulators which run on modern computers. The HP desktop computers were based on the older HP 2100 AX BX accumulator architecture, while the Amigo was built on the stack-based HP 3000.
