Hi Ed
Although, I have no specific manuals, these systems
are quite easy to work on. I hope that no one has stripped
it for tubes or parts. There are many application books
published for analog computers. Programming these are
almost always similar.
I would love to work on bringing yours back to life
but am afraid that the distance is a little to great
( I live in Santa Cruz, CA ). Maybe something can
be worked out with the Computer History Museum,
here in Mountain View (
http://www.computerhistory.org/ ).
Some kind of loan or something.
I could work on it there, assuming that you could locate
a sponsor to cover cost of repair, patches, program resistor and
program capacitors.
You might also check with Doug Coward:
http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog
He may have some information specific to Donner Systems machines.
Like I said, I'd love to play with it.
Dwight Elvey
From: "ed sharpe" <esharpe(a)uswest.net>
Please see the Donner analog computer at:
http://www.smecc.org/analog_computers.htm
we would like to get enough stuff and some docs to get it operational.
Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
Please check our web site at
http://www.smecc.org
to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us.
address:
coury house / smecc
5802 w palmaire ave
glendale az 85301
----- Original Message -----
From: "ed sharpe" <esharpe(a)uswest.net>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>rg>; <cctech(a)classiccmp.org>
Cc: <jwest(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: HP2000 pictures
that is curious... but I see why the spread the
weight of the three
drives...
we used 2883 disc drives on the main system, and a 7900 on the test
system.
we also had a rack with a spare processor and reader with a hot spare...
but nice to have the reader on that processor too if we wanted to listen
to
music on an am radio next to the processor!
If you go to the
www.smecc.org near the bottom of the home page there
is
a b/w picture... you can click on it and see what
I am describing.
by the way can use a 2883 disc drive or two....
ed sharpe archivist for smecc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay West" <jwest(a)classiccmp.org>
To: <cctech(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 5:59 PM
Subject: HP2000 pictures
> Hey folks... just happened to come across some pictures of HP2000
systems
> > that I have never come across before. Shows some really nice
> configurations.
> >
> >
http://www.entrix.co.uk/nostalgia.html
> >
> > Jay West