17 Jul
2003
17 Jul
'03
8:45 p.m.
At 09:08 PM 7/17/03 -0400, you wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Tony Duell wrote:
How close is it to being considered abandonware by HP?
I know for a fact that HP dropped support for these many years ago and
literally threw out their remaining software/hardware/manuals/testers. I
think we can safely say that they've abandoned it.
BTW I have HP-IL cards, serial port cards, a combined serial port and
memory card, Technical BASIC in ROM and even a Diagnostics ROM for the IPC.
I think I have all or nearly all of the docs, software and manuals that
they ever produced for it. And yes, the Tech BASIC ROM is made of standard
parts.
Joe
He has
practically *all* the software for this machine. The only
Alas much of it (C development stuff, etc) is still HP copyright and
therefroe can't be distributed. 
18 Jul
18 Jul
5:33 p.m.
Alas much of it (C development stuff, etc) is still HP
copyright and
therefroe can't be distributed.
How close is it to being considered abandonware by HP?
BTW I have HP-IL cards, serial port cards, a combined serial port and
memory card, Technical BASIC in ROM and even a Diagnostics ROM for the IPC.
I asusme the diagnostic ROM is a cartridge that fits in place of the OS
ROM cartridge. There's a 6 pin header on the Logic A (CPU + memory) PCB
that appears to be for connecting to a signature analyser which I assume
is used with this. There's also that 4 way DIP shunt in the 16 pin socket
that can be moved to disable the MMU and off-board memory (IIRC), maybe
that's used for diagnostics.
I think I have all or nearly all of the docs, software
and manuals that
Was there ever a (hardware) technical reference manual?
they ever produced for it. And yes, the Tech BASIC ROM
is made of standard
parts.
Is this Tech BASIC ROM a plug-in card that goes into one of the expansion
slots, or a daughterboard in the OS cartridge, or what?
-tony
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