20 Aug
1998
20 Aug
'98
11:50 a.m.
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Alex Knight wrote:
In addition to the pictures I have on my Web site,
David Hicks' Museum
of HP Calculators has a bunch more info on the 9830 and the
available peripherals (including things like printer, plotter, paper
tape reader, digitizer, etc.). I was surprised when I got my
9830A and it had aftermarket ROM and memory cards in it. The ROM
is a "Fast Basic" card and it and the memory were made by Infotek.
I got an Infotek Mass Memory unit (8" floppy drive) with mine that has the
same form factor as the 9830 and sits atop it. I also got several Infotek
memory modules.
The darned things are built like a tank, too.
Extremely heavy
and rugged. There is also a 9830B version, but from what I can
tell by comparing the guts they are the same except for the
memory cards (the 9830B supports more RAM). It looks like the
I have the 9830B. Check out http://www.siconic.com/vcf/rar.htm and scroll
down to 06/04/98 to see what all I have with it.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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