30 Oct
2004
30 Oct
'04
4:51 a.m.
I finally checked out the HP 1000. It seems to work. I checked and the
CPU section has a DCPC card, Memory Protect Bd, Mem Bd, four 256KW memory
cards and a 2102E Memory Controller. The IO side is full of cards. Here's
the list: I/O Buffer, I/O Buffer, 12966A BACI Bd, 13183 7970 Mag Tape 2,
13183 7970 Mag Tape 1, 26099A Line Printer, 26099A Line Printer, Bus I/O,
12966A BACI Bd, 12966A BACI Bd, 13037 Intface, 12821A Disk Intface, Time
Base Gen, FEM. It seems to be quite a nice machine.
Joe
I went to one of my favorite scrap sources today but I was just there a
few days ago so I didn't expect to find anything. But I was wrong! I found
a NICE F series HP 1000 along with the Floating Point Unit. I haven't
looked at it closely yet but all the card slots are full and it's in very
good condition. It was mounted in a short (desk height) HP cabinet marked
"HP 1000 System" along the top. Unfortunately I had to leave the cabinet,
it was just too big and heavy fit in the vehicle that I was in. I'll go
through the computer later and give a full list of all the stuff in it.
Joe
30 Oct
30 Oct
1:02 p.m.
Joe R> wrote...
I checked and the
CPU section has a DCPC card, Memory Protect Bd, Mem Bd, four 256KW memory
cards and a 2102E Memory Controller. The IO side is full of cards.
What's more interesting than the cards, is the firmware chips on the FEM
board, and on the FAB board underneath the cpu card (if it has one).
Jay
4:45 p.m.
That's actually normal for F-series machines!
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Joe R> wrote...
I checked and the
CPU section has a DCPC card, Memory Protect Bd, Mem Bd, four 256KW memory
cards and a 2102E Memory Controller. The IO side is full of cards.
What's more interesting than the cards, is the firmware chips on the FEM
board, and on the FAB board underneath the cpu card (if it has one).
Jay
1 Nov
1 Nov
5:29 a.m.
The FEM board has five sets of ROMs. Here's the list: Set A: 5180-0141
Unmarked 5180-0143. Set B: 12883-80019 12823-80020 12823-80021. Set C:
12824-80007 12824-80008 12824-80009. Sets D, E and F are empty. Set G:
92084-80004 92084-80005 92084-80006. Set H: 92084-80001 92084-80002
92084-80003.
Can you tell me what these are for? Don't forget that this is an F
series and has the FPU so they may be for it.
No FAB board.
The Boot ROMs are PN: 5081-2361, 12992-80005, 1816-0857 and 1816-0962.
According to the ROM manual the first two are the 7900/7905 Standard Boot
Loader and CS/80 Disk Boot Loader. I couldn't find a match on the PNs for
the other two. Looking inside the front panel it looks like the ROMs are:
791(unreadable), console, 7914 Disk and 7970 Tape. It looks like they're in
the wrong order. It's not surprising, the markings have been crossed out
and written over several times.
Also found out last night that this one has the High-Performace Memory
cards (12749H) and HP Memory Controller (2102E). Also I set the system up
today and ran the memory test. Everything works perfectly.
Joe
At 08:02 PM 10/30/04 -0500, you wrote:
Joe R> wrote...
I checked and the
CPU section has a DCPC card, Memory Protect Bd, Mem Bd, four 256KW memory
cards and a 2102E Memory Controller. The IO side is full of cards.
What's more interesting than the cards, is the firmware chips on the FEM
board, and on the FAB board underneath the cpu card (if it has one).
Jay
7:09 a.m.
I know it's bad form to answer one's own question but I've been
researching the HP 1000 and found some interesting items. First it appears
that this one has had the HP 12823F F series Enhancement/Upgrade Kit
installed. The kit consist of three parts; (1) Base Instruction Set upgrade
(ROMs 012117-80016, 80017 and 80018 on the CPU card). (2) Scientific
Instruction Set (ROM set A on the FEM board). (3) Fast Fortran Processor
Set (Set B on the FEM board). Set C on the FEM board is the Vector
Instruction Set. Sets G and H are something called RTE-6/VM Operating
System EMA/VMA Firmware. This is looking more and more like a LOADED machine!
Joe
At 02:29 PM 11/1/04 -0500, I wrote:
The FEM board has five sets of ROMs. Here's the list: Set A: 5180-0141
Unmarked 5180-0143. Set B: 12883-80019 12823-80020 12823-80021. Set C:
12824-80007 12824-80008 12824-80009. Sets D, E and F are empty. Set G:
92084-80004 92084-80005 92084-80006. Set H: 92084-80001 92084-80002
92084-80003.
Can you tell me what these are for? Don't forget that this is an F
series and has the FPU so they may be for it.
No FAB board.
The Boot ROMs are PN: 5081-2361, 12992-80005, 1816-0857 and 1816-0962.
According to the ROM manual the first two are the 7900/7905 Standard Boot
Loader and CS/80 Disk Boot Loader. I couldn't find a match on the PNs for
the other two. Looking inside the front panel it looks like the ROMs are:
791(unreadable), console, 7914 Disk and 7970 Tape. It looks like they're in
the wrong order. It's not surprising, the markings have been crossed out
and written over several times.
Also found out last night that this one has the High-Performace Memory
cards (12749H) and HP Memory Controller (2102E). Also I set the system up
today and ran the memory test. Everything works perfectly.
Joe
At 08:02 PM 10/30/04 -0500, you wrote:
Joe R> wrote...
I checked and the
CPU section has a DCPC card, Memory Protect Bd, Mem Bd, four 256KW memory
cards and a 2102E Memory Controller. The IO side is full of cards.
What's more interesting than the cards, is the firmware chips on the FEM
board, and on the FAB board underneath the cpu card (if it has one).
Jay
1:29 p.m.
Joe wrote...
First it appears
that this one has had the HP 12823F F series Enhancement/Upgrade Kit
installed. The kit consist of three parts; (1) Base Instruction Set
upgrade
(ROMs 012117-80016, 80017 and 80018 on the CPU card). (2) Scientific
Instruction Set (ROM set A on the FEM board). (3) Fast Fortran Processor
Set (Set B on the FEM board). Set C on the FEM board is the Vector
Instruction Set.
I'm not an expert on the F series, but as I understand it I
think the above
options are standard on the F? But anyways, that's pretty much loaded with
everything I've heard of.
Sets G and H are something called RTE-6/VM Operating
System EMA/VMA Firmware.
Sweet... I have a couple sets of that firmware too. Means
you can run
RTE-6/VM. I'm gonna have to pull out those manuals some day :) But then,
I've never been a huge fan of RTE from what I saw of it. I like something
more "general purpose". HP-IPL/OS looks promising. Or maybe I'll play around
and write something new, perhaps modled after primos. Great catch in any
case Joe.
Jay
2:33 p.m.
On Nov 1, 2004, at 7:29 PM, Jay West wrote:
Joe wrote...
Would RTE be used in batch mode, with punched cards? Would it run with
one of the flat
cartridge disk drives (1 platter in a flat round case)?
First it appears
that this one has had the HP 12823F F series Enhancement/Upgrade Kit
installed. The kit consist of three parts; (1) Base Instruction Set
upgrade
(ROMs 012117-80016, 80017 and 80018 on the CPU card). (2) Scientific
Instruction Set (ROM set A on the FEM board). (3) Fast Fortran
Processor
Set (Set B on the FEM board). Set C on the FEM board is the Vector
Instruction Set.
I'm not an expert on the F series, but as I understand it I
think the
above options are standard on the F? But anyways, that's pretty much
loaded with everything I've heard of.
Sets G and H are something called RTE-6/VM
Operating
System EMA/VMA Firmware.
Sweet... I have a couple sets of that firmware too. Means
you can run
RTE-6/VM. I'm gonna have to pull out those manuals some day :) But
then, I've never been a huge fan of RTE from what I saw of it. I like
something more "general purpose". HP-IPL/OS looks promising. Or maybe
I'll play around and write something new, perhaps modled after primos.
Great catch in any case Joe.
Jay
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