Info? HP1000 F series - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Nov 1997

James Willing &lt;jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com&gt; wrote:
...
  While wandering around one of my favourite surplus
gear haunts today, I cam
 across a couple of HP 1000 F series minicomputers.  While they look neat, I
 know just about nothing about them.  Anyone out there familiar enough with
 them to give me the 'infamous 25 words or less' speech on their significance?

They're real-time control systems, based around the 21MX processor
family (which succeeded the 2100 (ca. 1972) and 211[456] (ca. 1967))
and running one of several flavors of HP's RTE operating system.
I've never actually used them.

...
  It might take a few $$ to break one or more of them
loose, so I'd like to
 have a bit of info before I make a concerted effort to procure them... 
If you have HP Measurement/Computation catalogs from 1980 or 1981 or
so, you could look in there.  Else pester me and I'll try to FAX a 
few relevant pages to you.

-Frank McConnell