HP1000 F & A700 - pictures

Evenin' all. Uploaded tonight for your viewing pleasure, just over 60 pix of the HP1000's that Tim found & saved a few weeks ago, now parked lovingly (erm) in my shed... http://classic-micros.com/hp1000 (Note to Hans: I *know* I've not put the picture sizes in the img tags, I'm just too darn lazy, OK?) :) Anyway, a brief tale of what happened this last w/e... On Saturday, I picked up the 3 terminals & assorted other tapes, plus the disc controller from Tim, thus completing the rescue. Back to the shed for some well deserved tinkering time :) A long poke around in the manuals convinced me that: a) I have no docs for the F-series machines :( They're all for the A700... b) There was no system installation guide :( Thus thwarted, I decided buggrit, I'll carry out the cardinal sin, and just power the things up anyway. Fortunately, a kindly sysadmin had labelled the tape drive connectors, so they could be applied to the correct slot. Not so with the MUX cable; and besides, the other end of the MUX seemed to be missing anyway (i.e the DeMUXer). So, my total experimentation with the F-series was limited to pressing buttons on the panel and getting the blinkenlights to blinken. Which they did in a most satisfactory manner, I might add. Efforts to do anything with the tape drive were also effectively thwarted; I did manage to get a tape loaded, and the "on line" light to blinken (well, "come on" would be more accurate"). No amount of pressing front panel buttons would make them spin on their own, however. Ho hum. So, I tried the A700, which at least will talk to a terminal. Unfortunately, it won't listen to the terminal, so there's something a bit fishy going on there as well. That boot screen was as far as I got. Ho hum ^ 2. So, I made do with loading a disc (dunno where to plug it in to the 1000, though, so can't load anything from it, even if I knew the correct pushenbutton sequence). Questions/requests arising: 1) Does *anyone* here know anyone (or IS someone) who is/was a sysadmin (or related/married to same) of an F-series HP 1000? If so, can you/they render any help? 2) Does anyone have access to a set of F-series manuals, especially installation reference manuals? If so, are they in electronic format; if not, can you/they bear to part with them for at least as long as it will take me to scan them? 3) Has anyone got a suitable demuxer? (8-port, takes centronix plug & has 8 D25 socket outputs) Cheers y'all. -- Cheers, Ade. Be where it's at, B-Racing! http://b-racing.com