MDS 2400

The MDS 2400 was a small floor-standing computer manufactured by Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation.

[1] It was marketed primarily for remote job entry applications and promoted as The Peripheral Processor.

It offered a choice of line printers between 280 and 1250 lines per minute (lpm), a 400 cards per minute (cpm) card reader, a 160 columns per second card punch, a paper tape reader, a 2.48 MB disk storage unit, and 7 and 9-track half-inch magnetic tape drives.

[1] The system supported synchronous communications at up to 9600 baud, and usually served as a remote job entry system to a larger mainframe computer.

The remote job entry software provided full support for the HASP multi-leaving protocol, among others.