6 Feb
2000
6 Feb
'00
3:11 p.m.
"Peter Pachla" <peter.pachla(a)wintermute.org.uk> wrote:
If that's the one which looks very much like the
terminals HP supply with
their HP 3000 series mainframes then I'd very much like to get my hands on
one (not to mention an HP-120 or 125).
There are two styles of 150. One is the 150A/B, and in rough outline
it looks something like a 120 or 2382 terminal but does have different
casework from those. These models have a 9-inch display screen; I
think the only differences between A and B are the ROM'd firmware and
accompanying MS-DOS version (and I do recall that it was possible to
upgrade a 150A to a 150B with a firmware-and-software swap) but
someone else may know better.
Then there is the 150-II aka 150C aka Touchscreen II. It's in a boxy
enclosure with tiltable 12" display screen. I think the 2392 terminal
might have similar styling (2393 does not, it uses the 37531A pale
green-screen monitor with the terminal logic in a separate box).
After HP introduced the Vectra (PC-compatible, at least more so than
the 150) and 150 sales dropped off, and ran out of 2647F terminals, HP
started shipping 150-IIs as consoles for /68 and /70 systems. (Maybe
/64s too.)
Unfortunately I have no idea what kind of terminals HP sell these
days. 700/9x? I don't think they ever made a 150 that looks like
those, although they did make some monochrome VGA monitors in a
similarly-styled case.
-Frank McConnell