21 Nov
2014
21 Nov
'14
7:10 a.m.
On 2014-Nov-20, at 10:40 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
I have the binary tape image for HP BASIC somewhere other than in the core of my
HP2116. The source is up on bitsavers scanned (and OCR'd) from a listing that I have
had since 1971.
Indeed, that's the source we're working from (we spoke of this on the list a few
weeks ago).
I've actually extracted (an almost complete) machine code / binary image from the
assembly output listings you provided on bitsavers, but it's more interesting to
fulfil a complete assembly from the source, so we're waiting for that before trying to
load & run.
With the configuration I have (assume I can get 32K
words of core, and have the I/O cards
I listed) what can I run on it?
Aside from blinkenlight programs, in the not-to-distant future there should be a
stand-alone version of HP BASIC available. A friend and I are working on assembling it
from source. (There are probably old binaries out there somewhere but I haven't
obtained one).
A bunch of tape images for HP stuff is up on bitsavers
(http://bitsavers.org/bits/HP/HP_1000_software_collection). I also came into a fair
number of HP paper tapes but I haven't yet had the time to check them against
what's on bitsavers to see if I have anything that isn't already there.
.. always be interested to hear if there's more period 2116 software, although I'm
a little limited as my 2116 currently has only 8KW memory.