A little more on the HP120 keyaord interface

Tony Duell wrote: I was thinking (the other day) that there was an HP terminal that was a lot like the 120. Couldn't remember the model number then, but today I think it's HP2382. Would one of those be a suitable keyboard loaner? I'm also thinking there were two keyboards that fit it, a compact keyboard and a larger keyboard. The larger keyboard would have looked like the one that fit the HP2625/HP2628 terminals. I'm not sure of electrical compatibility in any case though. It's been close to 20 years since I've seen a 120, probably closer to 25 since I actually tried to get anything done with it. It ran CP/M 2.2 and had a sort of predecessor to HP's PAM that displayed selectable applications in the on-screen function key labels, with the expectation that the user would press the function key to start the application. -Frank McConnell