3 Mar
2004
3 Mar
'04
1:02 p.m.
I have accumulated a couple of Panasonic HHC RL-H1400 "Hand Held Computer"s.
For a description, see:
http://members.cox.net/obsoletetechnology/Panasonic_HHC.html
Searching has indicated that a ROM "capsule" containing a version of MicroSoft
BASIC was available. Does anyone have one of these capsules, or a dump of a ROM
that can be written to a new ROM? The computers that I have came from insurance
agents and have insurance software on the ROMs that came with the computers.
The insurance ROMs are Motorola MCM 68764C and appear to be UVEPROMs.
Thank you,
Martin Marshall
3 Mar
3 Mar
2:43 p.m.
Searching has indicated that a ROM "capsule"
containing a version of
MicroSoft BASIC was available. Does anyone have one of these capsules, or
a dump of a ROM that can be written to a new ROM? The computers that I
have came from insurance agents and have insurance software on the ROMs
that came with the computers.
The insurance ROMs are Motorola MCM 68764C and appear to be UVEPROMs.
You and the rest of the HHC community. I've got an HHC myself, and all
mine has are the insurance EPROMs, too. I've done some snooping and found
other HHC owners, and they're looking for these mythical BASIC ROMs just
as feverishly!
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3:31 p.m.
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
A few years ago I was heading up a bulk purchase of these things from a
guy who acquired them from an insurance agency in Canada or something. We
had a couple dozen units spoken for and then the seller pulled out. I
forget what he ended up doing with them but I think he found a more
lucrative avenue (eBay maybe). I wouldn't be surprised if the ones you
have are from this guy, but then again the HHC was used in a lot of
insurance applications, probably originating from the same company that
modified them for actuarial operation and sold them off to various
insurance agencies.
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Searching has
indicated that a ROM "capsule" containing a version of
MicroSoft BASIC was available. Does anyone have one of these capsules, or
a dump of a ROM that can be written to a new ROM? The computers that I
have came from insurance agents and have insurance software on the ROMs
that came with the computers.
The insurance ROMs are Motorola MCM 68764C and appear to be UVEPROMs.
You and the rest of the HHC community. I've got an HHC myself, and all
mine has are the insurance EPROMs, too. I've done some snooping and found
other HHC owners, and they're looking for these mythical BASIC ROMs just
as feverishly! 
4 Mar
4 Mar
1:53 a.m.
Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I actually have about 20 *pounds* of these eproms... and a "never tested"
HHC myself. What I *do* have is a gizmothingy to fit these modules into a
normal eprom programmer... somewhere... so if anyone can find the *source
code* to the basic or anything else in a standard form, I can burn 'em...
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | for MicroSoft: "We're not the oxy...
zmerch(a)30below.com | ...in oxymoron!"
> Searching has indicated that a ROM
"capsule" containing a version of
> MicroSoft BASIC was available. Does anyone have one of these
capsules, or
> > a dump of a ROM that can be written to a new ROM? The computers that I
> > have came from insurance agents and have insurance software on the ROMs
> > that came with the computers.
> > The insurance ROMs are Motorola MCM 68764C and appear to be UVEPROMs.
>
> You and the rest of the HHC community. I've got an HHC myself, and all
> mine has are the insurance EPROMs, too. 
5 Mar
5 Mar
10:47 a.m.
Mine came in a brown soft case, from a company called
Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance.
--- Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
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> Searching has indicated that a ROM
"capsule"
containing a version of
> MicroSoft BASIC was available. Does anyone
have
one of these capsules, or
> a dump of a ROM that can be written to a new
ROM? The computers that I
> have came from insurance agents and have
insurance software on the ROMs
> that came with the computers.
> The insurance ROMs are Motorola MCM 68764C and
appear to be UVEPROMs.
You and the rest of the HHC community. I've got an
HHC myself, and all
mine has are the insurance EPROMs, too. I've
done
some snooping and found
other HHC owners, and they're looking for
these
mythical BASIC ROMs just
as feverishly!
A few years ago I was heading up a bulk purchase of
these things from a
guy who acquired them from an insurance agency in
Canada or something. We
had a couple dozen units spoken for and then the
seller pulled out. I
forget what he ended up doing with them but I think
he found a more
lucrative avenue (eBay maybe). I wouldn't be
surprised if the ones you
have are from this guy, but then again the HHC was
used in a lot of
insurance applications, probably originating from
the same company that
modified them for actuarial operation and sold them
off to various
insurance agencies.
--
Sellam Ismail
Vintage Computer Festival
International Man of Intrigue and Danger
http://www.vintage.org
[ Old computing resources for business ||
Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ]
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http://marketplace.vintage.org ]
4 Mar
4 Mar
11:40 a.m.
Searching has
indicated that a ROM "capsule" containing a version of
MicroSoft BASIC was available. Does anyone have one of these capsules, or
a dump of a ROM that can be written to a new ROM? The computers that I
have came from insurance agents and have insurance software on the ROMs
that came with the computers.
The insurance ROMs are Motorola MCM 68764C and appear to be UVEPROMs.
You and the rest of the HHC community. I've got an HHC myself, and all
mine has are the insurance EPROMs, too. I've done some snooping and found
other HHC owners, and they're looking for these mythical BASIC ROMs just
as feverishly!
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