28 Mar
2005
28 Mar
'05
6:32 p.m.
The 2114 was my first vintage HP, and still has my favorite front
panel of any HP mini, the touch sensitive front panel really light my fire.
No floating point, no microcode of any form actually, just random logic.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: another hp2100 wannabe
Eric wrote...
Oops, you're right. My own web page has the
correct info, but my
memory is terrible.
My memory is worse, I had to go dig through manuals to know.
My mental run
queue is only about 3 entries deep these days :)
Now that I think about it more, I'm fairly
certain that it won't,
because 2000E (and 2000F and 2000/Access) require the floating point
microcode that is not available for the 2114/2115/2116.
Aha, but there WAS
floating point available for the 2116. A separate
rackmount box. I have no clue if it had the same interface as the later FP
options.
How much memory can a 2114 be equipped with?
That's another potential
problem with trying to use a 2114 for either 2000A or 2000E, or as a
system processor for the dual-processor versions. The 2114 might also
be short on I/O slots, though it has enough to be an I/O processor
for 2000B and 2000C.
Very good points. I'm not going to dig up the answers
unless someone has a
2114 they are trying to get running ;)
Jay