6 Feb
2006
6 Feb
'06
7:15 a.m.
At 09:40 AM 2/6/06 -0700, Richard wrote:
In article <3.0.6.16.20060206100054.32e7d0d8 at pop-server.cfl.rr.com>,
"Joe R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com> writes:
I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me if there was. But there are
lots of other systems that use the same drives and tapes such as the HP
9845, 9835, 9825 calculator/computers along with LOTs of their test equipment.
Joe
I don't see
I urge everyone to gather their tapes up and
try to have someone read
them and store the contents to disk or some other media.
I can understand that important stuff may be out there for HP-85s,
since they are actual computers. The 2648A is a terminal though. A
very sophisticated terminal, but just a terminal. Its my impression
that the tapes would have been used for storing entered data or plot
data as the terminal has an "autoplot" feature (very cool, I only
learned about this last night and didn't know it back in 78 :-).
Was there ever any "software" made for the 2648A? anything in the service, reference or user's manual
for it. (A big
thanks to hpmuseum.net for having all that stuff scanned!)
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