There is a huge HP 1000 gov't surplus rack available near Harrisburg, PA. Here's a pic: http://home.earthlink.net/~wmsmith/HP1000.jpg Contact me for details if interested. -W

HP's are very interesting, to HP fans anyway! What you have in the picture is ~most~ of a HP 2117F. The floating point accelerator box is not shown. Without the floating point box, you have bascially a HP 2113 with some optional microcode installed. Its binary code compatible with old HP mini computers going back to the HP2116, so you can run HPBASIC and other things like that. The HP operating systems were called RTE, and the most recent version that ran on your box would be RTE-6VM. Its not a 'pretty' operating system however. If all you have is the processor box, your best bet to getting this system doing interesting things is to build a tape reader emulator so you can load paper tape images from a PC. This will allow you to run HP's version of BASIC, or any other code you can get from the HP 2100 archive site. Additionally there is a freeware stand-alone, FORTH-like operating system and programming language for HP minicomputers that will run very nicely on your processor. Lastly there are a number of built-in microcode diagnostics to test your machine and its memory, so when you want to fire the thing up, drop me a note and I'll go over some of the tricks and configuration details. Glen Slick wrote: