GE-200 series

The GE-200 series was a family of small mainframe computers of the 1960s, built by General Electric (GE).

It had eleven I/O channel controllers, and GE sold a variety of add-ons including disks, printers, and other devices.

Even though the machine was selling well, Cordiner ordered that GE leave the computer business within 18 months (it actually took several years).

The GE-235 had no idea it was not running in batch mode, and the illusion of multitasking was being maintained externally.

The GE-265 achieved fame not only for being the first commercially successful time-sharing system, but it was also the machine on which the BASIC programming language was first created.