New find; HP HyperViper

Today I finally had a chance to check out a PC that I found a few weeks ago. I had picked it up becuase it had an HP-IB connector on one of the expansion cards. When I looked closer I saw that the card had a sticker marked "HP 82324". Bingo! That's the part number of the souped-up Measurement Coprocessor card that's commonly called a HyperViper! I have a number of Viper cards with 68000 CPUs but I'd never even seen a HyperViper card. The HyperViper uses a 16MHz 68030 CPU. The Vipers and HyperVipers are HP 9000 series 200 or series 300 computers on a board. You install them in a PC and run a driver and it switches over to the 680xx CPU and runs (almost!) exactly like HP 9000 computer. It has a built-in HP-IB port and supports additional HP-IB cards. It also mounts a HP 9000 file system in one file on the PCs hard drive. It uses the PC's parallel and serial ports and uses the PC's keybaord and monitor for user I/O. Anyway today I opened it up and cleaned all the dirt and insects out and fired it up. It booted to DOS then loaded the HP software then switched over to the HyperViper card and booted HP BASIC version 6.2 (Rocky Mountain BASIC) without a hitch. Wahoo! I'm in business now! It even has the last version (D.00.00) of the HP divers. HP's Viper and HyperViper site >> <http://ftp.agilent.com/pub/mpusup/pc/old/vp_over.html#m5> Joe