The never-ending house cleanup continues. I have an HP 9826 computer
(
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1068&st=1)t=1), in
non-working condition. I picked this up at Boeing Surplus (RIP) a few
years back. At that time, it was working but the built in monitor was
not doing so well, but the machine worked fine otherwise. I powered it
up recently and got nothing out of it aside from some fans spinning. I
have no real desire to get it working again (too many other projects),
but of course I don't want to see it trashed.
It's in worn condition (it clearly got a lot of use at Boeing), but it
doesn't look too bad. The "S" keycap is broken off the keyboard but can
still be typed. It has the HPL ROM set installed, and 192k of memory,
if I'm recalling the amount correctly from when it was running.
If there's no interest by the end of the week, I'll be dropping this off
at RE-PC in Tukwila. They tend to not scrap "cool" stuff like this so
it'll probably end up on sale in their "vintage" department rather than
sent to the scrap heap... (I hope).
This is in the Seattle area. I'd rather not ship this but if you're
willing to foot the bill (it's a heavy machine, HP made some pretty
solid equipment back when the HP Way was still alive) we can work that
out...
- Josh