Hi folks,
I've been contacted by someone with the above wee machine for sale. The
Huskies were very ruggedised PCs weren't they? I can't remember that much
about them, but if you're interested contact the seller directly - Ross at
Bridgwaterboy(a)aol.com.
Cheers,
--
Adrian/Witchy
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - possibly the UK's biggest online computer museum
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(
Hi am looking for an hp 85 cpu
I have been hunting the net , in hopes of finding one ,
am also looking for an HP 85 service rom 00085-15006
the cpu was made by capricorn , lots of differen't definitions
or the cpu on the internet.
is there possibly a modern chip that could be used in place of it ?
any help or information would be appreciated
thanks
Graham Robinson
IT Manager
Agtronics ltd
graham.r(a)agtronics.co.nz
I have tons, but do you want the one with the twist between the drives?
Also, do you FEDEX next morning? or ground? and where are you? I
am in Boston
Joe Heck
Hi Adrian,
I read your posting from classcmp.org which read as follows:
Hi folks,
Anyone have any info on the subject beast here? In fact, does anybody
want
one? I've got said twin 8" floppy drive monster here and it doesn't fit
in
with my museum since it isn't a home computer. It also doesn't have a
keyboard, but it powers up and asks nicely for a program disk.
All I can find is that CPT Corp were based in Eden Prairie, Michigan,
were
founded in 1971 by Dick Eichhorn and ceased to exist in the early 1990s.
The
Babbage institute has a CPT 8000 and the picture there is pretty much
what
the 8520 looks like. Only it has a keyboard :)
The 8520 is an Intel 8080-powered machine, and I only know that because
I
took it apart. Google searches only turn up people offering a data
transfer
service, so either there aren't many left or it's just not a very
interesting machine!
Like I say, free to a good home but it's HEAVY, maybe 50-60lbs heavy. I
could sure use the space it takes up and I don't want to put it back in
the
tip....
I thought that you might be interested to know that I used to work for
CPT (from 1980 - 1987) and was there (and worked in production) while
the 8000 series was being manufactured.
A couple of corrections to your information:
1. CPT was based in Eden Prairie Minnesota, not Michigan.
2. CPT was founded by Dean Scheff, not Dick Eichorn. Dean started the
company in 1971, and the original product was a cassette tape base
memory add-on for IBM Selectric typewriters (The name CPT originally
meant Cassette Power Typing).
As you already know, the CPT 8000 series (8000, 8100, et al) was a
dedicated word processor. The beauty was in it's 14" portrait oriented
screen. This screen was white with black characters and had a very high
scan rate (for the day). The 8000 perfectly mimicked a sheet of paper
being scrolled through an electric typewriter and was therefore very
comfortable for most office workers to use.
CPT had other products like the 6000 (a low powered, half screen version
of the 8000), the Diskpack (sp? I don't remember how we spelled that
shared disk system, the Phoenix (word processing with graphics) and the
9000 series (a low profile replacement for the 8000 series that utilized
the Intel 8086 processor.
If I dig into my archives I could probably find printed articles and
sales brochures, let me know if you would be interested in any scanned
images of this information.
John D Mustain
Exact Software
* <mailto:john.mustain@exactsoftware.com>
john.mustain(a)exactsoftware.com
* www.exact-software.com
* 800.468.0834 x271
* 333 East Center St. - Marion, OH 43302
PS, as I was writing this email to you I was enjoying some coffee from
my 1986 vintage CPT 1971-186 15 Years of the Best cup that was given to
all CPT employees at the time. I've used it nearly every working day
since it was given to me.
Later!
i could lay my hands on an old NEC V20(8088 i guess)
comp (a Hitachi Motherboard i guess no. HIL8)
recently. it must be atleast 15-20yrs old. it does hv
all its components and interfacing cards along with
its bios.
here lies the problem. i don't hv any idea if it works
or not. the pwrsupply works for sure (i checked). the
monochrme monitor that i got with it does not work.
where should i start checking if it is working, if the
bios, processor and other chips ar in good condition?
i hv no idea....
kindly help.
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"Barrie Carruthers" <barrie(a)precisionmicro.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi am looking for an hp 85 cpu
I don't think much of your chances of finding just the chip. There
are many of them around, but in most cases they are attached to an
HP Series 80 machine.
> the cpu was made by capricorn , lots of differen't definitions
> or the cpu on the internet.
The chip was made by HP. Its product name was Capricorn.
> is there possibly a modern chip that could be used in place of it ?
Ha! The HP Series 80 architecture specifies 4 12V clocks! and 6V logic.
However, since we are talking about 20 year old technology, I am sure
you can EMULATE an HP-85 CPU using a modern processor.
> any help or information would be appreciated
First a little self-promotion: lots of info on the Series 80 may be
found at www.series80.org, but the most important reference is the
HP-85 assembler manual (its in the CDROM collection of the Museum of HP
Calculators along with the HP-85 service manual: http://www.hpmuseum.org)
I have the HP-86 assembler manual, but I have not got around to scanning
it yet.
There are a couple of HP Journal articles on the Series 80
(also in the CDROM collection above), e.g.
HP Journal Aug 1980, pp. 18-22 (brief discussion of the chip set).
HP Journal Jul 1980, (whole issue dedicated to the HP-85).
HP Journal Dec 1982, (article on the HP-86/87 memory architecture).
HP Journal Jun 1983, (discusses HP-75 which has a CMOS version of the
series 80 processor architecture)
**vp
Christopher McNabb <cmcnabb(a)4mcnabb.net> wrote:
> I'm in pretty urgent need of a set of MFM drive cables. If anyone has
> any they want to give up, please let me know!
Why not just make them yourself? This way no one has to give them up and
everyone can have as many as he needs!
MS
See previous message... for pickup, Santa Clara area, or from
LA area, or Arizona next week..
Chuck, if you still read this list: yeah, those were the machines
I got from you :(
--f
Hi
For those on the west coast, I can do 1702A's on my SIM-4 and MP7.
I can use Intel HEX or binaries as input ( or BNPF as files if needed ).
If the Data I/O 19 that I just got works for these as well, I'll be
able to do them there. I currently do 2708's on my ByteSaver board.
I also have some old Intel UPP units but haven't had the time to
check them out.
Dwight
>From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
>
>At 09:42 AM 1/10/04 -0800, Neil wrote:
>>I've seen a couple of threads discussing the need to program 1702s. If
>>anyone needs a small qty of 1702A programmed I can do this. I've got an old
>>1702A programmer that I use to program EPROMs for my MMD1.
>>
>>The programmer is Tenor Model 763 - it was used originally to program
>>sequence ROMs for industrial control. I've repaired it and made some
>>modifications to it, it's a manual programmer, you enter each byte on toggle
>>switches, originally the LS bit was on the left, MS bit on the right, I
>>reworked it so the bit order was more normal. :)
>
> Thanks for the offer. I had been looking for a way to program some. But
>I recently bought a Pro_Log programmer with the correct plug-ins for the
>1702s. In addition, it has the serial link so I should be able to read and
>program them to and from my PC. I haven't tried it yet but it appears to
>work. I want to get started with it soon. Once I verify that it works I'll
>also be able to program 1702s for anyone that needs them.
>
> Joe
>
>
