20 Aug
2002
20 Aug
'02
2:39 p.m.
At 01:44 PM 8/20/02 -0500, you wrote:
I've just come across an HP 9000/300 and 9000/220
in a dumpster over here
at University Salvage. I see that the 300 has a 68010 (first one I've
owned), but am not sure about the 220. Both have video and 'keyboard'
connections.
I've found some 300 info using google, but nothing helpful on the 220.
You probably have an hp9000/310 . I typed a little about them
when I auctioned off all of mine:
http://nazas.autonoma.edu.co/hp310.html
http://nazas.autonoma.edu.co/hp310orange.html
You need an HP-HIL keyboard and a monitor such as this for it:
http://nazas.autonoma.edu.co/hp35731a.jpg
In addition, you need an HPIB HD with the HPBASIC OS.
These machines are OK for instrument control, although I find
that my viper card (essentially the same system in an ISA card,
which you can then use from DOS) is far more useful.
The 9000/220 is the little sister of this one (9000/236C):
http://nazas.autonoma.edu.co/hp9836c.html
The monitors for these are very hard to come by, so a 220 without
a monitor is hardly useful. The one above, with monitor, went for
about $200 on ebay back in 2000. How much memory does it have? I think
that 220 memory could work in early hp300 models (236 memory
certainly worked).
The 200 series machines are interesting if you have the software.
Also, are these worth anything? I've got no drives
with them, but I did
get a bunch of lab I/O boxes (multimeter, and other things) with them.
These could be interesting. Can you describe them?
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org