Probably the latter. They are the usual good HP
engineering, but on the
software side things are somewhat meagre, i.e. nothing much of interest
seems to be around.
There's HP BASIC 5.x, which is a very nice version of BASIC. It allows
named procedures, local variables, etc. There's also a Pascal, which I
assume is UCSD-based.
If someone in Europe wants one, I also have one that I do not use. ( 1MB
extension, 3x RS232, GPIO & HPIB cards , graphics extension . But I
would like my outlay back...)
I am wondering how on earth oyu get all taht into a 9816. Do you have an
expansion chassis?
-tony