I'm thinning out my collection and I have the following HP 150 software &
manuals for sale for best offer. Unless otherwise noted, all are complete
and include discs and are in HP binders and slipcovers and are in excellant
condition. I also have some HP 150 computers that I will be selling off.
E-mail me privately if you're interested.
Joe
Series 100 Personal Card File
Series 100 MemoMaker
Series 100 MemoMaker (#2)
Series 100 WordStar
Series 100 WordStar Training and Installation Guide
Series 100 Terminal User’s Guide
Series 100 HP 150 Personal Computers Owner’s Guide
I'm a novice at soldering - I've made at most 10 connections in my life.
And, there is the looking for replacements, possibly buying them.
>Desoldering 20 capacitors and replacing them will take < 1 hour!
>
>There are other faults which cause the PSU to trip, but most of them
>cause it to fail on light load as well.
>
>-tony
>
>
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I don't think I've cost any companies anything via the 20 or so packages
I've pirated over the years, because I wouldn't have bought them anyway
(most of the stuff was expensive like Win95, MSOffice, etc.).
>The delightful thing about discussions of the extent and effect of
>piracy is that both sides of the argument have a very hard time
>finding a shred of evidence, apart from the widely acknowledged
>extent of piracy.
>
>In my anecdotal opinion, the sequence of
>events was quite clear: Mom and Dad decided it was time to
>get a computer for the kids for Christmas, they bought two-three
>packages to go along with it, and by New Year's Day the kids
>are having copy-parties with their friends.
>
>- John
>
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>> I'd like to do some assembly language programming on my Apple //+. What
>> program was generally used to do AL programming? Did you typically use the
>> built-in Monitor, or was there an "Apple Assembler" program?
> Well, you had many to choose from. Probably the most popular was
> Merlin by Roger Wagner. You also had the Apple's EDASM, and there
> was the LISA Assembler (no relation to the computer), Big Mac Assembler,
> Assyst, ORCA/M, probably a few others.
Big Mac is still a usefull choice.
ORCA/M is more powerfull, but a bit harder to get on.
> Then of course there was the Sweet-16 mini-assembler built into the ROMs
> of the Apple ][ (not ][+ or //e). It finally reappeared in one of the
> later ]['s, but I can't remember which (the //c+ perhaps?)
First thing I did after I had my own Apple ][+ was hacking in
the Mini Assembler via the monitor (CALL -151) and save it to
cassete tape. I had to modify it on the fly ... :) At least
the dissassembler was still in ROM - Ohhh good ol times.
> I did all my coding by poking bytes from the monitor. Its how I learned
> and its the only way I ever felt comfortable with even though using an
> assembler would have saved me countless hours. But I never liked any of
> the assemblers (and I had all the ones I mentioned above).
I'm prety shure Bic Mac is woth a try. After I had FD drives
Eventualy I did my own assembler (/370 orientated - before
the Apple, I did it the other way - I developed a set of Macros
for the ASSEMBF to compile 8080 code (and 6502) on the mainframe)
>> Second, has anyone heard of a Commodore C64k?? I found a news post where
>> a guy had two of these available, but I don't recognize the "k" suffix.
> He probably is just referring to the amount of memory it has and is
> clueless enough about the machine that he would call it that. I'm
> positive its just a plain old C64.
Maybe - I don't know all the names for the different 65816 projects
to boost the C64 - maybe it's one of those ?
Gruss
H.
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> Well, I have a board with a z8000 on it, is that the same? What OS would
> these things run natively?
Xenix ? At least there have been some ports.
Gruss
H.
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> There's a mainboard flat in the bottom of the case. It contains an 8086,
> between 128K and 960K of RAM (there are 2 versions of the board...),
> optional 8087 copro, and an 8089 I/O processor
One of the vew designs, that (tried) to uitlize the fill power
of the 86-family. In faxt: today everybody is moaning about
the 'crude' x86 structure (but using it) and nobody temembers
that the CPU was only one single part of the design. A design
ready to build high efficient and fast computers for multi
programming operating systems (Unix et. al.)
> (very fancy DMA chip).
Thats like naming the Newton a fancy post it thing. The
8089 was a full featured CPU, just with an special
command set suited for I/O operations. Anything from
serial I/O via disk I/O up to code translations could
done in a very smooth and genuine way.
Just imagine that the HW depending part of any device
driver would run on a seperate CPU - including all the
time consuming puffer/unpuffer, notifications, polling
and what-ever operations.
The 86, 87 and 89 are three independend microprocessors
suited for special tasks (asymetric multiprocessing).
Today the x87 is reduced to an additional fp register
set, the 89 is forgoten and everybody aplaudes the
symetric processing hype :(
Just think what kind of computing could be possible if
this sceme had worked out - need more float ? just add
some FPUs! need a lot of I/O ? add anoter IOC...
Need huge 3D power? Add some 'MMX' processors and not
just some new commands for the same old FPU.
Think I should stop.
Gruss
H.
/370 Veteran
P.S.: The Apricot is still a white spot in my collection.
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>> BUT, 1982 was one of those years when computers just exploded.
>>Machines like the C64. Easy to set up, cheap, better graphics and
>>sound. People started putting their Atari 2600s in the closet and
>>going out and buying computers. Parents were complaining that kids
>>were playing video games too much. The fad was over.
>> Almost overnight 2600 cartridges when from $20-$30 to $3-$5 each.
>>Atari was the head domino and when they fell, they all started to fall.
> I was writing games for a computer music company with several
> C-64 titles at the time, and it was my impression that the
> software market disappeared once people figured out they could
> pirate their friend's software, instead of buying it.
Old story, But never true. Everything about copying was done
on the Apple ][ years before the C-64 (remember Locksmith or
Nibbler ? :). And everything is still the same - easyer than
ever (Buy a CD-Burner at USD 100 and get an idot proof copy
programm for free) - so the home software market is dead ?
Come on, be serious - it's still the same - if one wants a
software and it is availabe (in difference to the early
Apple ][ age when a pirate copy often whas the only trace
about the existance of a special soft) one still buys it,
if the price is right - but if the shop asks USD 500 just
for a pop up util, one might look around for a copy - everybody
wants new soft NOW - and don't want do search weeks just for
a pirate. I still belive that most copys are no harm to the
manufacturer. Example - I spend something like USD 150 per
month on games (just one or two new games - they are horrible
expensive in Germany). Same with two friens of mine - some-
times we but a game 3 times - one each, since noone wants
to wait one day for the copy.
Gruss
H.
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HRK
>> Video game crash of '83? Would you please explain?
> In the early 80s there was a home video game boom started by the home game
> PONG and all it's clones then Atari produced one of the first popular
> cartridge programmable games, the 2600. Not soon after that there were
> probably a dozen competitors including Matell (Intellivisaion), Magnavox
> (Oddesy), Balley (Astrocade), etc. By about 1983 there was a major glut of
> game machines and cartridges, too many to support the market...
> Then the bottom fell out around 1983 with the avent of cheaper home computers
> with just as good (if not better) game playing ability, which started
> capturing the attenetion of the masses and the gamers stopped buying video
> games in favor of computers, many of the game companies were hit REALLY hard
> and some folded. Of course this was the start of the home computer wars. :)
> Some were able to 're-tool' for home computer games and did quite well.
Oh, and don't forget all the lame me-to companies who started
bussines in 1983/84 and stoped even before the product was
final developen - And do you still remember the even more
lame cpmpanies who foget to cancel their product right
away, when anybody was yelling 'Video Dames are Dead - Long
Live the Home Computer' ? One of them I think was a smaal
playing card manufacturer called Nintendo.
Gruss
H.
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HRK
this is newer, but i have several 8bit vid cards and assorted mono/cga
etc type monitors. can i plug in one of those cards in a modernish
system and realistically use it for a display? just need dos & linux
term capabilities, but I'm not sure whether or not the system will like
that, etc. any input here would be very helpful. thanks!
-Eric
>> Ok, so I picked up an Apricot today for one whole dollar. I can't make
>> out any model number anywhere on the unit. All I got was the main unit.
>> It has a male DB-9 video connector and a female DB-9 keyboard connector.
>> It also has a DB-25 serial and an Amphenol parallel connector. It has a
>> handle that you can pull out of the case from the front, so I guess it's
>> somewhat portable. It has two 3.5" drives in the front. It simply says
>> "Apricot" between them. No keyboard or display so I can't boot it
>> unfortunately.
> IIRC the 'Apricot' is a domestic (USA) Apple clone/look alike/work
> alike.
> If you don't find any better info, hollar, and I'll go through some of
> my Byte/Kilobaud/InformationAge etc.
I think it sounds a lot more like this fine early MS-DOS / CP/M-86
Computers from Apricot. Non-IBM-HW-compatible systems with a very
nice and smooth design (compared to them, still (almost) any new
computer looks like 1950's techniks). 3.5" FD way before IBM, and
cute keyboards, mice, and even track balls.
Gruss
H.
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