7 Aug
2001
7 Aug
'01
2:03 p.m.
At 01:31 AM 8/7/01 +0100, you wrote:
The battery in the bottom is for a battery operated real time clock
and for use in a controlled shut down in the event of a power lose. It
won't run the computer for more than a few seconds. It's optional and it's
sort of rare, I've only seen it in a couple of machines. FWIW it was only
available in the 9826 (aka 9000 226) and 9836 (aka 9000 236) I think both
of th em machines that I saw it in were 9836s.
joe skrev:
And all those gold circuit board traces. HP doesn't do things by halfs!
At 02:10 AM 8/5/01 +0100, Iggy wrote:
>Went to the junkyard with a mate today and found (well, stepped on) an ugly
>HP something. It's a HP 9000 (Yay!) 226 (?h?),
aka 9826. It's a 8 MHz 68000 CPU baed
system that runs HPL (HP's
version of APL), BASIC or Pascal. Most of the OS were disk based but you
could get them on plug in ROM cards. The really interesting thing about the
OS is that you canhave multiple OSs (and muiltiple versions of the same
one) on the same drive or even multiple drives and you can select the one
that you want it to boot. Very nice for tinkering. All in all, it's not a
bad machine. They're wided used as HP-IB instrument controllers.
We were very impressed by the 68000 processor, both the fact that it used one
and the processor itself, since it's a bona-fide Motorola model, and an
expensive gold and ceramics one at that. Very pretty to look at, just like the
ROMs. >which is a
clumsy box with a small
>CRT and a 5?" floppy as well as an integrated keyboard. This unit had been
>retired from the telemonopoly (well, all the stickers date back to that
>time), which ad apparently modified it into some kind of luggable
>workstation by putting a biug brass handle which seems to have come off a
>door on one side of the unit.
I wonder if the handle is original? There
was an option for some kind
of handle from HP but I've never seen one.
As absurd as it seems, it may have been intended for certain portable
applications by design, what with the space for a battery pack in a
compartment in the bottom. OTOH, the handle and the small shock absorbing feet
both seem to come from a furniture shop, not a computer one. =)
Do I detect a note of sarcasm here?
Joe
>Apart from the handle, it has been equipped
with an RS-232 interface
>and additional memory cards, adding up to roughly 1,7 MB.
>The unit powers up fine, the screen looks nice, but the keyboard has been
>massacred, with five or six keys missing.
That's not a problem, the keys from most
of 9000 200 series machi8nes
will fit it.
Oh, well, isn't that nice, I'll just go to the shop and buy some HP 9000/200
keytops then. ;-)