23 Aug
2010
23 Aug
'10
12:28 p.m.
On 2010 Aug 23, at 11:10 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
The only reason I think there is one is that the web site page at
Oh, there quite probably was. The HP9830 is not a 'natural' for this
sort
of thing because there was no graphical output as standard. I suppose
you
could link up an HP1350 graphics translator (HPIB was available for the
9830 -- in fact I think it was the first desktop machine to have that
interface), but it wasn't a commonly-done thing.
The thermal line printer was a pretty standard piece of equipment with
the 9830, and it was a quick printer. One could do character-based
graphics with it.
In 1976 my high school had a 9830, it was the first machine I
programmed (still have the exercise program listings). At the same time
I was soldering up boards for a friend assembling an IMSAI. I recall
Lunar Lander from the day, and playing it on one or the other, but
couldn't say for sure which.
Looks like a
quite fascinating machine! I'd love to try lunar
lander on
one.
I don't rememebr a lunar lander for it (there's a very famous one
for the
DEC GT40 terminal...), but anyway.
On the otehr hand there were lunar lander games for
many of the HP
handheld calcualtors with 1-line numeric displays. Something like that
could certainly run on a 9830.
http://hp9830.com/hp9830-lander.html is supposed
to be a listing of
the
program. I know you don't do a lot of web stuff, so if it would be of
I will take a look. I assume it's in BASIC, and given that the
programming manuals and the manuals for the optional ROMs are available
it shouldn't be too hard to translate it to a more modern BASIC.