On Jun 5, 2012 11:11 AM, "Stan Sieler" <ss at allegro.com> wrote:
According to Wirt Atmar (of AICS, and now passed away), HP came to him
about when
the Apple 1
was introduced, asking him if the HP2640A could be
converted into a
personal computer.
(see:
http://www.aics-research.com/history6.html )
The analysis at the time was: yes, but it would be so expensive it
wouldn't
succeed.
(The HP 2640A was already a very expensive terminal!)
(Of course, later TinyBASIC was ported to the HP2645A)
Stan
I have an HP 2647F. Similar to the other terminals in that series except
it has two floppy drives. If I remember correctly the FDC board contains a
Z-80 while the main CPU card uses the standard 8080A for that series.
Capable of running BASIC.