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Frank Knows his stuff was Re: What is this HP 9000/220?

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote (after me): > >Every once in a while I see a flavor of 9000/200 that is built into or > >around an HP 2382 terminal housing: small, beige skin, brown bezel around > >9" monochrome CRT. > > That sounds more like the 9000 216 aka 9816. Look at > "http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/hp9816.jpg" and see if that looks like > what you're thinking of. Yep, that is what I was thinking of. > This was a box about the size of a 9133 disk > drive and had 8? expansion slots in the back and no attached monitor or > keybaord. it said 9000 217 on the front top corner. Hmm. I'm going to have to pull my old /320 out to look at it, but that was about the same cross-section, only deeper than the 9133. The CPU plugs into the bottom slot (and has a special connector), then there are several DIO slots above it. > BTW Do you know where I can get a keyboard for a 9816? Do you know if any > of the other keyboards will work on it? I have a bunch of HP-HIL keyboards > and they use that same style connector. I'm not sure if it's the same size > or number of contacts though. I do know that the 9816 keyboard has one > latch on top and the HIL keybaord has two latchs, one on each side. The 9816 keyboard in your picture looks something like the small/standard 2382 keyboard, except the 2382 keyboard has wider function keys across the top row (typical HP terminal) and doesn't have the knob. The 2382 keyboard had a similar modular connector and was not HP-HIL. I don't think I'd chance it. You might want to ask on comp.sys.hp.{hardware,misc} and see if anyone there knows. [Integral PC] > I have heard it called a 9807, ONCE. It's also shown as a 9807 in the > '87 catalog. The IPC is one of my favorites! I have two of them and lots > of software. If you run across any IPCs or accessories or software, I'M > INTERESTED! Yep, they are fun boxes. Unfortunately the only spare bit I have for one right now is a 256KB RAM card. Hmm, what would I like to find? Technical BASIC. I gather it installs into the ROM cartridge in the back of the machine. Mine just seems to have the System V version of HP-UX for the IPC. -Frank McConnell

28 years, 2 months

operating systems

by higginbo＠netpath.net

At 01:11 AM 1/3/98 -0500, you wrote: >And none of those ganes were ever as good as the "Big-5" series on >the old TRS-80's with their monochrome 128x48 "graphics". The Linux >fight is over, it's time for an arcade-game dicksize war. (And I've >never been good at arcade games). The best to me back then weren't the arcade games. I mean you have to admit it's a little hard to conceptualize something in a 128x48 grid. Nope, the games that did it for me back then were the text parsing adventure games (infocom, etc.) Although there were some games that never die, and I still play (Anyone remember Space War?) and of course Combat on the Atari 2600. I've got a CD full of abandonware games that I have slowly put together from websites that seem to go down as fast as they come up. There are ancient games on that CD that I have never played. <rant> Which brings up an interesting point: Why do the self appointed software cops go after software archives of "abandonware" that most of today's computers usually run too fast anyway? Do these ancient games really hurt todays software market? Anything 10 years old or older should be freeware/public domain as far as games are concerned. They don't increase productivity, and the collectors of these old games aren't doing any harm are they? </rant> - John Higginbotham - limbo.netpath.net

28 years, 2 months

HP 85 printer belt PN

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

I don't remember who asked for the part number for the HP 85 printer drive belt but I finally dug out my service manual and found the numbers. There are two belts in the printer. One drives the carriage and is PN 1500-0529. The other drives the paper advance and is PN 1500-0572. If one is bad you should go ahead and replace both. During the week you can call HP's automated ordering line at 1-800-227-8164 and order them if they're still available. Let me know if these are still available and what they cost. If you can't get them, let me know and I'll open up one of my 85s and measure the belts and to to match them up with something from Small Parts Inc or one of the other companies. Joe

28 years, 2 months

operating systems

by higginbo＠netpath.net

At 02:48 PM 1/2/98 -0600, you wrote: >get all those pretty colors... (Thank goodness *somebody*'s coloring all >those boring old black and white movies! 8^) They used to do that with older games that were originally in 4-color CGA, going back and redoing them in VGA 256 color. Just a few though. Space Quest springs to mind... - John Higginbotham - limbo.netpath.net

28 years, 2 months

Frank Knows his stuff was Re: What is this HP 9000/220?

by fmc＠reanimators.org

pvhp(a)forte.com (Peter Prymmer) wrote: > I am brimming with curiosity about the MPE OS: What is it like? ObAdvocacy: <BIFF> K00L3R THAN L1NUX!!!! </BIFF> It's stable like a rock, and doesn't need a lot of maintenance. You want a system that can stay up for a year? Choose MPE. > Having tried to glean some info from the HP web site I can only > surmise that the target market is mid to large businesses and > might be comparable to IBM AS/400 or Mainframe type computing > environments. Am I right? Yep, pretty much. Historically, 3000s have been aimed at transaction-processing environments. There have been efforts to push 3000s into office automation roles but they really didn't stick, both because PCs got cheap and because 3000s (particularly the classics) really didn't do interactive character terminal I/O very well. > If that is the case I am curious: does MPE run with ASCII or EBCDIC > character sets? ASCII. But there's some presumption (in many applications, including some of the configuration tools) that you will be using an HP terminal that supports block mode, which (approximately) lets the application use the terminal's memory as a buffer for a form, so that the user can do his editing in the terminal then transmit the completed form to the 3000 in a fast block transfer. > Does MPE support a UNIX like environment - even as an option? If you're running MPE/iX, yes. :RUN SH.HPBIN.SYS and you will get a $ prompt. > What is the shell like? The MPE command interpreter...well, I can't speak for the MPE/iX CI. I haven't used it enough. The classic MPE CI is not really like a Unix shell -- there are a bunch of internal commands that look like they do their own filename globbing depending on whether they handle filesets or not, there aren't really pipes (instead there are "message files" which are sort of record-structured FIFOs with disc-file backing store). > What is the C compiler like? For MPE/iX, it's available and seems to be a somewhat modern C compiler for PA-RISC 1.0. GCC has also been ported to MPE/iX. At Wollongong, we used a third-party C compiler that sometimes made me wish SPL supported structure/record declarations. It was a slow compiler, and it had a really conservative approach to addressing modes...though I managed to find ways around some of its conservatism. > Editors? Well, you get EDIT/3000, which is a line-oriented editor that is suitable for use on all manner of terminals, even the printing ones. I believe someone ported MicroEMACS to MPE/iX a while back, and you definitely get vi with it. There are also several third-party editors, some in the Interex contributed software library (e.g. QUAD, which includes a pseudo-screen editing mode) and some commercial (e.g. Robelle's QEDIT, which lots of 3000 folks swear by). > How long has it been on the market? 25 years. -Frank McConnell

28 years, 2 months

Classifieds2000 apology

by higginbo＠netpath.net

At 07:13 PM 1/2/98, you wrote: > Did you see the ad on there for the KayPro 4 on there for $10,000 ! >Honest! I'm not making this up! Gee, my Altair must be worth millions! >I wish! Some yahoo on www.haggle.com had an Apple Lisa listed for $15,000.00. People collect these old machines, but not for the money, for the nostalgia mostly. At least that's how it is in my case, although I do use some of my machines on a daily basis. (Mostly for playing my collection of ancient games that just seem to run like greased electrons on my Cyrix 200 system. :) - John Higginbotham - limbo.netpath.net

28 years, 2 months

Frank Knows his stuff was Re: What is this HP 9000/220?

by pvhp＠forte.com

classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu, fmc(a)reanimators.org Subj: Re: Frank Knows his stuff was Re: What is this HP 9000/220? Frank McConnell wrote: >I've been doing stuff with HPs for over 20 years now (mostly with >3000s and HP PCs), and some of it stuck. But I've never worked with >Series 200s so don't know that much about them, just what I've picked >up here and there. And I still think I have a lot to learn. > >Why do I know about Series 500s? In 1989 I took a job at a little >company called The Wollongong Group, supporting a product for the HP >3000 called WIN/TCP for MPE/V. Little did I know, they also had a >product for the HP 9000 Series 500s called, straightforwardly enough, >WIN/TCP for HP 9000 Series 500. They expected me to support that too >-- after all it's all HP stuff, it's all weird/how different can it >be? (yep, that's how they thought) -- so I did. <snip> >-Frank McConnell "I want my MPE" (w/apologies to Dire Straits) > <fmc(a)reanimators.org> I am brimming with curiosity about the MPE OS: What is it like? Having tried to glean some info from the HP web site I can only surmise that the target market is mid to large businesses and might be comparable to IBM AS/400 or Mainframe type computing environments. Am I right? If that is the case I am curious: does MPE run with ASCII or EBCDIC character sets? Does MPE support a UNIX like environment - even as an option? What is the shell like? What is the C compiler like? Editors? In short - what is MPE like? How long has it been on the market? Sorry, but I have never personally known anyone/anyplace that runs MPE, until I came across a UC campus with a web site that several MPE freeware packages available. However, from that (as well as any possible newsgroups) it is difficult to determine what the OS is like for the user/admin/programmer and I would appreciate some info. Thanks very much to anyone who can respond. Peter Prymmer

28 years, 2 months

Visicalc

by manney＠nwohio.com

> I mentioned a while ago that I saw a copy of Apple II visicalc. Well, I > finally got it. It has all the stuff, and is a 1981 copy. I was wondering if > there was a PC version or port for DOS? Sure was. -- I've got one (no manuals, tho'). I messed with it a little...works sorta like early Lotus. IIRC, there was one for the PCjr, too. manney(a)nwohio.com

28 years, 2 months

Frank Knows his stuff was Re: What is this HP 9000/220?

by KFergason＠aol.com

In a message dated 98-01-02 17:36:09 EST, you write: << Why do I know about Series 500s? In 1989 I took a job at a little company called The Wollongong Group, supporting a product for the HP 3000 called WIN/TCP for MPE/V. Little did I know, they also had a product for the HP 9000 Series 500s called, straightforwardly enough, WIN/TCP for HP 9000 Series 500. They expected me to support that too -- after all it's all HP stuff, it's all weird/how different can it be? (yep, that's how they thought) -- so I did. >> Oh cool. from 89-92, I managed 2 500's, a 540 and a 560. I don't remember the exact differences between the two. but, they were great. we had the wollongong software on them. my favorite was the 400 Mb had disk that looked and sounded like a dishwasher. Kelly

28 years, 2 months

10k Kaypro? Here's another laugh!

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

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