Getting started with HP9000/200 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Sep 2006

Tony,

...
  OK, HP Pascal may be worth a try sometime. Is it
related to any other
 Pascal (like, say, the UCSD P-system)? 
HP Pascal is also very powerful, and modular, i.e.: allows compiled modules,
or units in Borland Pascal terminology. It includes UCSD file IO, and it has
an assembler and debugger.  I think in terms of HP hardware supported,
Pascal 3.1 is roughly equivalent to Basic 5.1.  All of this is gleaned from
the various documents at http://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/9000_200/ as my Pascal
knowledge is a little rusty!

...
  you get the idea)). And floppy / floopy drive wear has
to be balanced, I
 guess, agaisnt the possiblity of a headcrash on the hard drive... 
It was with this in mind that I did an RS232 byte transfer of all three
volumes of my 9153 to files on PC.  It took a while!  But at least I have a
form of archive besides for floppies.  I believe that the HP LIFUTIL program
will allow connecting an HP drive to PC via HPIB, but I don't have one of
those cards currently!

...
  As regards convenience, if I can fit a BASIC
configured the way I want
 (with the necessare I/O drivers) on one disk, and have a second disk for
 my programs, that should be quite useable. I can make backups/images of 
Suggestion: you could have Basic on the 1st disk, with a startup program
that loads drivers from the 2nd disk, and then loads main program(s) from
subsequent disks.

Regards,
Peter
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