24 Dec
2011
24 Dec
'11
6:27 p.m.
> That's excellent too (and probably of more
practical use, there being
> more HP1000s around than machines that can run MTS). I must take a look.
most pc's and even PDA's will be able to run
MTS as soon as they work
I am darn sure none of my PCs can. And I am absolutley shrue I don't have
a PDA that could run it. And actually, why would I want to?
thru the sources. There has been a lot of work put
into that, and it is
good the release has finally come through.
Sure
I have an HP-1000 of the iron type, and would love to run the soft
type. There are usually so many fewer problems with exploding old power
supply caps with software emulations, and the software is actually the
final payoff anyway.
I disagree with both of those asseritons... In reverse order :
You may be interested i nthe software rather than the hardware, but I can
assue you that's not universal. I am interested in fixxing nad running
the real hardwere. This is very much a personal choice, and I am very
happy to accept that everybody is in this hobby for different reasons.
As regards the capcxtiros, having heard of the problems of 'fake'
capacitors on PC motherboards, and having seen the 'quality' of some
modern electrolytics, I woudl think that a PC is more likely to have
capacitor problems than a quality classic computer (and if nothing else,
HP stuff from that time doesnt' have poor-qualtiy components in it). I've
got many HP machines and instrum,ents here, some a lot older than any
HP1000, and most are sitill on all their original capacitors. I think I
had _one_ capacitor fail in an HP9810, and I changed a couple in my HP120
CP/M machine because the results of them blowign their tops (and they
were bulging) could have meant a new CRT. But that's about all. I do not
understnad this witch-hunt on old capacitors.
-tony