15 Jun
2009
15 Jun
'09
12:33 a.m.
Michael Kerpan wrote:
The HP 21xx deal is news to
me, though. I guess it firmly puts HP into the "supportive" camp vis a
vis classic computing hobbyism and research, especially if they're
thinking of donating more stuff to the museum
I haven't said much about it recently since we have no infrastructure
to release anything yet. The tapes we received from them have been read,
and a first pass at determining exactly what we have was done, which some
verification. This was helped along by the person doing the work on adding
RTE support to SIMH.
We have the tapes and disks at CHM for what survived of Apollo when it was
sent to Colorado Springs. I spent a few weeks working on the manuals that
came in with it, and am putting together some machines to do recovery of
over 100 Apollo ESDI disks.
Also in the same shipment was everything they still had for the Pascal
workstation, along with two pallets of HPIB and SCSI disks for the 300
series.
We are hoping to get a non-commercial agreement for this software worked
out soon along with one for the Classic 3000, although they were unable
to find any software for it inside HP. I'm hoping people on the outside
will offer to have it archived once we get the agreement in place.