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*https://testbook.com/question-answer/which-of-the-following-is-a-3rd-generation-compute--633ad796c2427a3984045078 | *https://testbook.com/question-answer/which-of-the-following-is-a-3rd-generation-compute--633ad796c2427a3984045078 | ||
*https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/3-generation-1964-1971</ref> In 1973, they shipped a high speed non-impact printer called the [[Honeywell Page Printing System]]. In 1975, it purchased [[Xerox Data Systems]], whose [[SDS Sigma series|Sigma computers]] had a small but loyal customer base. Some of Honeywell's systems were [[minicomputer]]s, such as their Series 60 Model 6 and Model 62<ref>{{cite news | *https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/3-generation-1964-1971</ref> In 1973, they shipped a high speed non-impact printer called the [[Honeywell Page Printing System]]. In 1975, it purchased [[Xerox Data Systems]], whose [[SDS Sigma series|Sigma computers]] had a small but loyal customer base. Some of Honeywell's systems were [[minicomputer]]s, such as their Series 60 Model 6 and Model 62<ref>{{cite news | ||
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====Aerospace and defense==== | ====Aerospace and defense==== | ||
1986 marked a new direction for Honeywell, beginning with the acquisition of the Sperry Aerospace Group from the [[Sperry Corporation#Burroughs takeover|Unisys Corporation]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/15/business/honeywell-to-buy-sperry-aerospace.html|title=HONEYWELL TO BUY SPERRY AEROSPACE|website= | 1986 marked a new direction for Honeywell, beginning with the acquisition of the Sperry Aerospace Group from the [[Sperry Corporation#Burroughs takeover|Unisys Corporation]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/15/business/honeywell-to-buy-sperry-aerospace.html|title=HONEYWELL TO BUY SPERRY AEROSPACE|website=The New York Times|date=November 15, 1986|language=en|access-date=2021-05-26|last1=Phillips|first1=Stephen|archive-date=May 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210527035415/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/15/business/honeywell-to-buy-sperry-aerospace.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1990, Honeywell spun off their Defense and Marine Systems business into [[Alliant Techsystems]], as well as their Test Instruments division and Signal Analysis Center to streamline the company's focus.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/29/business/company-news-honeywell-backs-spinoff-of-unit.html|title=COMPANY NEWS; Honeywell Backs Spinoff of Unit|work=The New York Times |date=September 29, 1990 |access-date=2018-05-16|language=en|archive-date=May 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517005858/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/29/business/company-news-honeywell-backs-spinoff-of-unit.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Honeywell continues to supply aerospace products including electronic guidance systems, cockpit instrumentation, lighting, and primary propulsion and secondary power turbine engines. In 1996, Honeywell acquired [[Duracraft]] and began marketing its products in the home comfort sector.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/13/business/company-news-honeywell-to-buy-duracraft-for-283-million.html|title=Company News;honeywell to Buy Duracraft for $283 Million|date=1996-02-13|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-05-16|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=January 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128203249/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/13/business/company-news-honeywell-to-buy-duracraft-for-283-million.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
Honeywell is in the consortium that runs the [[Pantex|Pantex Plant]] that assembles all of the [[nuclear bomb]]s in the United States arsenal.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/us-nuclear-weapons-policy/us-nuclear-weapons-facilities.html#.WvxrPtMvxTY|title=The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Major Facilities|work=Union of Concerned Scientists|access-date=2018-05-16|language=en|archive-date=May 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517005758/https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/us-nuclear-weapons-policy/us-nuclear-weapons-facilities.html#.WvxrPtMvxTY|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnfsb.gov/doe-sites/pantex|title=Pantex {{!}} Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board|website=dnfsb.gov|language=en|access-date=2018-11-17|archive-date=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117193421/https://www.dnfsb.gov/doe-sites/pantex|url-status=live}}</ref> Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, successor to the defense products of AlliedSignal, operates the [[Kansas City Plant]] which produces and assembles 85 percent of the non-nuclear components of the bombs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1670961.html |title=KC Council gets $673 million plan to replace Honeywell plant – Kansas City Star – January 7, 2010 |access-date=2010-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114232707/http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1670961.html |archive-date=January 14, 2010}}</ref> | Honeywell is in the consortium that runs the [[Pantex|Pantex Plant]] that assembles all of the [[nuclear bomb]]s in the United States arsenal.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/us-nuclear-weapons-policy/us-nuclear-weapons-facilities.html#.WvxrPtMvxTY|title=The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Major Facilities|work=Union of Concerned Scientists|access-date=2018-05-16|language=en|archive-date=May 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517005758/https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/us-nuclear-weapons-policy/us-nuclear-weapons-facilities.html#.WvxrPtMvxTY|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnfsb.gov/doe-sites/pantex|title=Pantex {{!}} Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board|website=dnfsb.gov|language=en|access-date=2018-11-17|archive-date=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117193421/https://www.dnfsb.gov/doe-sites/pantex|url-status=live}}</ref> Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, successor to the defense products of AlliedSignal, operates the [[Kansas City Plant]] which produces and assembles 85 percent of the non-nuclear components of the bombs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1670961.html |title=KC Council gets $673 million plan to replace Honeywell plant – Kansas City Star – January 7, 2010 |access-date=2010-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114232707/http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1670961.html |archive-date=January 14, 2010}}</ref> | ||
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* inadequate reporting of [[benzene]], [[ammonia]], [[nitrogen oxide]], [[dichlorodifluoromethane]], [[sulfuric acid]], [[sulfur dioxide]], and [[caprolactam]] emissions | * inadequate reporting of [[benzene]], [[ammonia]], [[nitrogen oxide]], [[dichlorodifluoromethane]], [[sulfuric acid]], [[sulfur dioxide]], and [[caprolactam]] emissions | ||
In 2003, a federal judge in [[Newark, New Jersey]], ordered the company to perform an estimated $400 million [[environmental remediation]] of chromium waste, citing "a substantial risk of imminent damage to public health and safety and imminent and severe damage to the environment."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/17/nyregion/court-orders-honeywell-to-clean-up-34-acre-site.html | title="Court Orders Honeywell To Clean Up 34 Acre Site", ''New York Times'', May 17, 2003 | work= | In 2003, a federal judge in [[Newark, New Jersey]], ordered the company to perform an estimated $400 million [[environmental remediation]] of chromium waste, citing "a substantial risk of imminent damage to public health and safety and imminent and severe damage to the environment."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/17/nyregion/court-orders-honeywell-to-clean-up-34-acre-site.html | title="Court Orders Honeywell To Clean Up 34 Acre Site", ''New York Times'', May 17, 2003 | work=The New York Times | date=May 17, 2003 | access-date=2013-07-10 | first=Maria | last=Newman | archive-date=June 29, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629140935/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/17/nyregion/court-orders-honeywell-to-clean-up-34-acre-site.html | url-status=live }}</ref> In 2003, Honeywell paid $3.6 million to avoid a federal trial regarding its responsibility for [[trichloroethylene]] contamination in [[Lisle, Illinois]].<ref>"Chemical Company Pays $3.6 Mil. to Settle Suits", ''Chicago Sun-Times'', September 6, 2003 qtd. in [http://knowmore.org/index.php/Chemical_company_pays_%243.6_mil._to_settle_suits knowmore.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928045332/http://knowmore.org/index.php/Chemical_company_pays_$3.6_mil._to_settle_suits |date=September 28, 2007 }}</ref> In 2004, the [[State of New York]] announced that it would require Honeywell to complete an estimated $448 million cleanup of more than 74,000 kg (165,000 lbs) of mercury and other toxic waste dumped into [[Onondaga Lake]] in [[Syracuse, New York]], from a former Allied Chemical property.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/29/nyregion/29cleanup.html |title="Lake Cleanup to Be Ordered in Syracuse", ''New York Times'', Nov. 29, 2004 |work=The New York Times |date=November 29, 2004 |access-date=February 16, 2017 |archive-date=May 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528065509/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/29/nyregion/29cleanup.html |url-status=live |last1=Urbina |first1=Ian }}</ref> | ||
Honeywell established three water treatment plants by November 2014. The chemicals cleanup site removed 7 tons of mercury.<ref>{{cite web|title=Onondaga Lake Cleanup Progress – November|url=http://www.lakecleanup.com/documents/metrics/metrics_november2014.pdf|website=Onondaga Lake Cleanup|access-date=14 January 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051132/http://www.lakecleanup.com/documents/metrics/metrics_november2014.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> In November 2015, Audubon New York gave the Thomas W. Keesee Jr. Conservation Award to Honeywell for its cleanup efforts in “one of the most ambitious environmental reclamation projects in the United States.”<ref name="Audubon">{{cite news|last1=Coin|first1=Glenn|title=Honeywell receives Audubon's highest award for Onondaga Lake cleanup|url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/11/honeywell_audubon_new_york_onondaga_lake_cleanup.html|access-date=17 August 2018|work=syracuse.com|date=6 November 2017|archive-date=July 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724002312/https://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/11/honeywell_audubon_new_york_onondaga_lake_cleanup.html|url-status=live}}</ref> By December 2017, Honeywell completed dredging the lake.<ref name="Coin">{{cite news|url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/honeywell_onondaga_lake_cleanup_superfund_epa_restoration_damages_erie_canal.html|title=Honeywell will pay $9.5 million for Onondaga Lake restoration project costs|last1=Coin|first1=Glenn|work=syracuse.com|access-date=11 January 2018|archive-date=September 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912131935/https://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/honeywell_onondaga_lake_cleanup_superfund_epa_restoration_damages_erie_canal.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Later in December, the Department of Justice filed a settlement requiring Honeywell to pay a separate $9.5 million in damages, as well build 20 restoration projects on the shore to help repair the greater area surrounding the lake.<ref name="Coin"/> | Honeywell established three water treatment plants by November 2014. The chemicals cleanup site removed 7 tons of mercury.<ref>{{cite web|title=Onondaga Lake Cleanup Progress – November|url=http://www.lakecleanup.com/documents/metrics/metrics_november2014.pdf|website=Onondaga Lake Cleanup|access-date=14 January 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051132/http://www.lakecleanup.com/documents/metrics/metrics_november2014.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> In November 2015, Audubon New York gave the Thomas W. Keesee Jr. Conservation Award to Honeywell for its cleanup efforts in “one of the most ambitious environmental reclamation projects in the United States.”<ref name="Audubon">{{cite news|last1=Coin|first1=Glenn|title=Honeywell receives Audubon's highest award for Onondaga Lake cleanup|url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/11/honeywell_audubon_new_york_onondaga_lake_cleanup.html|access-date=17 August 2018|work=syracuse.com|date=6 November 2017|archive-date=July 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724002312/https://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/11/honeywell_audubon_new_york_onondaga_lake_cleanup.html|url-status=live}}</ref> By December 2017, Honeywell completed dredging the lake.<ref name="Coin">{{cite news|url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/honeywell_onondaga_lake_cleanup_superfund_epa_restoration_damages_erie_canal.html|title=Honeywell will pay $9.5 million for Onondaga Lake restoration project costs|last1=Coin|first1=Glenn|work=syracuse.com|access-date=11 January 2018|archive-date=September 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912131935/https://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/honeywell_onondaga_lake_cleanup_superfund_epa_restoration_damages_erie_canal.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Later in December, the Department of Justice filed a settlement requiring Honeywell to pay a separate $9.5 million in damages, as well build 20 restoration projects on the shore to help repair the greater area surrounding the lake.<ref name="Coin"/> | ||