3 Jan
1998
3 Jan
'98
4:42 a.m.
Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote:
Yeap, it plugs into the socket under the panel on
the back. I have one
Tech BASIC ROM, also have TWO! System Engineering ROMs (Unix in a ROM) and
even have a Service ROM. I also have Tech BASIC on disk. Now you just need
to find an Integral!
Very cool! Where did you find those ROMs?
I have an Integral, but it's ROM just has the HP-UX kernel and PAM --
just enough to boot and run things. So I have /usr/bin (Unix
utilities, C compiler, &c) on a 9134 for when I actually want to do
something with it.
Back when they were new I looked at buying one, and that seemed to be
how you were expected to do things: if you actually wanted to wrangle
code in C you needed the hard disk. Kind of made me wonder why they
made it portable. Also I could never get a straight answer on whether
the HP terminal windows were capable of block-mode (like I needed to
talk to the 3000).
BTW I found a HP 7912 at a surplus store. It's
about 18" wide and 2 foot
deep and three foot tall. I *think* it's a 600+ Meg hard drive with a
built-in tape drive. Do you know for sure? I need a couple of external
hard drives if you know where I can find one. I'd rather have something
like a 9133, 7959 etc instead of a monster like the 7912!
7912...I'm rusty on these, but it's nowhere near 600MB. I'm thinking
more like 60 or 130MB.
-Frank McConnell