Boards for grabs - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Jul 1998

...
 > What kind of boards? Was it single-board or
backplane or what?
> Also, what are the key differences between Hp and PC? 
...
  Why not start with the key similarities, it's a
shorter list.
 They both had 8088s and ran MS-DOS.  OK, there you go. 
...
  The original HP150 looks like a 9" CRT in a box,
with a keyboard
 attached via coiled cord that goes to the back.  Typically there would
 be an HP-IB disc drive of some sort (probably with a 91xx model
 number) around, most likely using 3.5" stiffies because HP was an
 early adopter of the Sony 90mm medium, but even without that the 150
 can be used as a terminal (it mostly looks like an HP2623A monochrome
 graphics terminal). 
Thats the reason why a lot of people can't guess the processor - they
always open the Disk unit and can't find any x86 type chip :)

Gruss
H.

BTW: I'm looking for a set of System Disks for the 150.

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