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:
> 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
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