On 2011 Sep 22, at 2:07 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
 > Just as a follow up, the HP 2100 in Germany went
for approximately
> $550 US
> 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/250891468434 
...
  , IIRC the 2100A used some odd 'Current Transfer
Logic' ICs). 
The early models of the HP 2100 series used Fairchild CTuL:
Complementary Transistor Micro-Logic.
Non-saturating current-mode logic like ECL, using both PNP and NPN
transistors.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/HP21xx/CTL.html