Unfortunately, the 1/2 inch tapes all went along with one of the F series, as well as all of the disk packs & one of the disk drives. Where is the locking mechanism for the A700's harddrive? How can I check whether it is locked or not? If it is locked, and was powered up, will that have damaged/destroyed the disk? I do have some 1/4 cartridges, I think. Not sure how many or what they are labelled with until I get up north tho. Any ideas about incantations & terminal wiring would be much appreciated. I have some RTE manuals, I think they relate to the A-series; not sure if there's any hardware reference information in them... Cheers, Ade. -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow Sent: 05 August 2005 21:07 To: classiccmp at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: HP1000 A700 - what can I do with it? you appear to have an HP 1000 A-series and a 7914 disc/tape combo. in theory, you should be able to boot from the disc, assuming there is anything left of it since the heads probably weren't locked when it was moved. the software would have been loaded from the 1/4 cartridge tape but it doesn't look like you got any of those. it would be a good thing to read those HP 1/2 distribution tapes that go with the other system. jotting down what's written on the labels will reveal addtional clues on how the systems were used. they were probably running RTE-A on the A700 and some version of 6VM on the 1000Fs -- I may have the A-series CE manual. A and L series are sort of new relative to the manual archive that was saved. -- -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.7/60 - Release Date: 28/07/2005