2 May
1999
2 May
'99
11:31 a.m.
"Phil Guerney" <guerney(a)uq.net.au> wrote:
The state (Qld, Australia) main roads department are
selling a job lot of 16
x HP1000 A-series systems.
http://www.qits.net.au/hp1000/
Are these the same HP 1000's that are listed in the Comprehensive Computer
Catalog as being introduced in 1976?
No. Those are probably the 1000 M, E, and F-series and are basically
21MX processors with the "HP1000" name applied. The A-series are
later models. A600s were introduced in 1983, A400s in 1987 or 1988.
I think they're largely compatible (e.g. they share a lot of the same
peripheral I/O cards with the older 2100-family machines, and I think
the processor has largely the same instruction set) but they're mostly
smaller and faster.
- just a few km from that stash of HP1000's, but
they are way out of my
league.
Get some friends to help?
-Frank McConnell