27 Mar
2005
27 Mar
'05
11:25 p.m.
I wrote:
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.
Jay wrote:
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.
But I wrote "require the floating point *microcode*" (emphasis added).
The 2152A floating point processor would not work with any version
of TSB.
I *think* a 21MX F-series (with hardware floating point) could probably
be used as the system processor for 2000E, 2000F, or 2000/Access, but I
don't have proof.
I just cleaned up my 2000 TSB model comparison chart a bit, though it
may still have some errors. It can be seen at:
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/hp/2000/models.html
Eric