9 May
1998
9 May
'98
12:13 a.m.
At 01:35 PM 5/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Don Maslin wrote:
Not exactly, it has a built-in floppy drive that you can boot from, or
you can use an external drive on the HP-IB. >BUT< they also had an
optional ROM that contained an entire HP-UX system. HP called it a
software engineering ROM. From what i've been told they're extremely rare.
HP also made another ROM that contained a complete HP Technical BASIC in it.
I just picked up my third IPC. One of mine has the Technical Basic Rom,
one has the HP-UX ROM but the last one has both! :-)
Joe
I learned from a friend who picked it up (for
$3.10) at the swapmeet that
HP made a lunchbox that had HP-UX all in ROM. No drives in the box.
The Integral PC! Tell him I'll give him $10 for it :-) It is 68K-based
and has a small subset of HP-UX in ROM, but it really wants to boot from a
disk hanging off its HPIB bus.