Sam Ismail <dastar(a)wco.com> wrote: For Joe: MW == megawords. These being 2100-family machines a word is 16 bits. Um, no, I think that is an HP1000 F-series. (I have trouble keeping 1000 M/E/F-series straight though, really should copy those pages out of the test equipment catalog and paste them to my monitor or something.) Cute little thing, in a deskside tower chassis. And a 2621P terminal that I am guessing was last used as its console: it's got the fiber-optic console interface attached. Well, that's what the seller told us. Definitely 1960s stuff though. The idea was that the reader would re-roll your tape into its canister as it read. I gathered that that part didn't work too well. There were also some drafting erasers, um I mean hand-held re-rollers in a box nearby. Take a close look at the label on the front. They say "HP3000". That's because these 2647Fs were originally meant to be used as consoles for HP3000 series 64/68/70 systems. (Though, in April 1984 when the shop I was at got a brand new 3000/64, the 2647F console with it had a 2647F badge on the front.) It's been a while since I had one of these to play with, but I'm thinking that the BASIC was loaded from diskette. There is a sort of command/script interpreter in the terminal though. I think one of them has a 7970B tag and the other doesn't have a model tag but behaves like a 7970E, meaning nine-track 1600 BPI read/write. It's been modified, though, and I gather it started life as a read-only drive that could read 7-track tapes, and that we may have the parts to convert it back. Some of the parts are definitely there, but I can't judge their condition or completeness 'til we do a decent inventory of the lot and I try to wrap my head around the service manual for that drive. HP 2608A. Needs work, doesn't feed paper right. As line printers go it's kinda dinky. E.g. you can take it off its stand and then two people can carry it without too much trouble, so long as there aren't stairs or doorways or RVs in the way. So if you have Sam's attention and are near a proper line printer please show it to him so he can get properly calibrated. No, two 19" HP racks on a pedestal. Apparently from an engine test system of some sort. HP used to embed 2100-family CPUs in all sorts of specialized test equipment and that's what these look like they were, once upon a time. Yeah, y'all really should have hung around a bit longer before zipping off to unload. No, I was just dazed'n'confused because I really hadn't expected we'd be moving it that day, just looking and dealing to come get it in a couple weeks' time. So today I am playing catch-up, then maybe going off to rearrange /dev/closet02 in the hope of making a hole that some of this stuff can fit in. Catch-up? Um, yeah, I have a bunch of IBM manuals and stuff to sort through and inventory. They go with an IBM RT PC (6150). Got that too. Up to my butt in alligators, I remain, -Frank McConnell