Couple of cool HP 110/150 finds - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 May 2000

Hi Ernest,

At 07:17 PM 5/11/00 -0700, you wrote:
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Subject: Re: Couple of cool HP 110/150 finds

At 10:47 PM 5/2/00 -0700, Earnest said something about: 
 >Today, I was given a bunch of interesting
vintage items. 
 >  HP 88396  SCSI to parrallel interface.

    Did you ever find out more about this?

   I just picked up one of one yesterday with the cables. The other end of
the cable that fits the DB-25 connector has a male Centronics style
connector on it. The SCSI port has a feed-through type terminator on it.
Attached to that is a cable that has a micro-SCSI connector on the other
end of it. FWIW the box says "same functionality as 88395".

     Joe

No, I haven't found anything out about it at all. I haven't really been
looking though, as I'm working on some other things with my Apple IIe. To
tell you the truth, I've been putting off working with my HP 150/110/110+
stuff because I want to be able to devote some serious focus time to them.
My 150 needs to be re-setup I think, and that'll be a bit complicated for me
since I haven't set one up from scratch before. 
  They're not hard to setup once you get through all the menus and get to
the setup menu. Replace the two N-cells in the holder that clips into the
back of the 150 before you start. They're used to power the CMOS memory and
they're usually dead so the CMOS won't hold it's settings.

 I have more manuals for it
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 than I know what to do with, so I shouldn't have to
hammer you with to many
questions.

By the way, I found a new disk for the 150 Touchscreen:

Advance Link Master#3 (45431-13003) A.01.01  2435
Upload A.01.02
Monitor 3000 A.02.04

Are you familiar with this bit of software? I'm assuming that it's comm
software for linking a 110/110+ to the 150 but I'm not sure. 
    It's used to make the 150 emulate a terminal and is used to talk to the
HP mainframes. I have the manual here, but the program isn't real usefull IMO.
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I also picked up a 110+ with some manuals but no software. I'm not sure if
there even was software for the 110 series, since they're ROM based systems. 
   Actually there is a fair amount of software for the 110. I even have
some game programs from Infocom that were modified to run on the 110. I dug
out all my 110 software and it filled two good size boxs. I'm still going
to make copies for your archives when I get a chance.

    Joe
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Ernest