18 Feb
2007
18 Feb
'07
6:13 p.m.
NOTE: Most of the 9000/800 series boxes, including the
small ones (IE F20),
Why that series particularly? Many older HP9000s have HPIB ports as
standard too.
I must admit I am partial to the HP9000/200 machines. THey're old enough
to be classics, they use mostly standard chips with the odd ROM and PAL
dotted about, and the mechanicak sontruction, although different in all
the models I own (9816, 9836, 9817) is in all cases beautiful. Very easy
to work on, and with a good range of (DIO) expansion cards including
further HPIB ports, serial ports GPIO (16 bit parallel) ports, etc.
I have an HP9000/340 somewhere, but I took one look at the mainboard,
notices the several square ASICs, and put the case back on. It doesn't
really excite me at all..
-tony