3 Mar
2004
3 Mar
'04
3:31 p.m.
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
A few years ago I was heading up a bulk purchase of these things from a
guy who acquired them from an insurance agency in Canada or something. We
had a couple dozen units spoken for and then the seller pulled out. I
forget what he ended up doing with them but I think he found a more
lucrative avenue (eBay maybe). I wouldn't be surprised if the ones you
have are from this guy, but then again the HHC was used in a lot of
insurance applications, probably originating from the same company that
modified them for actuarial operation and sold them off to various
insurance agencies.
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Searching has
indicated that a ROM "capsule" containing a version of
MicroSoft BASIC was available. Does anyone have one of these capsules, or
a dump of a ROM that can be written to a new ROM? The computers that I
have came from insurance agents and have insurance software on the ROMs
that came with the computers.
The insurance ROMs are Motorola MCM 68764C and appear to be UVEPROMs.
You and the rest of the HHC community. I've got an HHC myself, and all
mine has are the insurance EPROMs, too. I've done some snooping and found
other HHC owners, and they're looking for these mythical BASIC ROMs just
as feverishly!