What is an HP98616? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

24 Jul 2005

For what its worth, I have access to a stack of HP 300 
machines at work.  I think they are mainly 310 machines. 
 I have keyboards too. I have been given the OK to do with 
them as I please.

Unfortunately, we have only 1 drive and its in use in a HP 
Rocky Mountain Basic app. at that.  If I ever finish my 
Labview port, its going home with me :)

Anyway, if anyone is interested, $20 each (my time) plus 
actual shipping costs.  If you are in Lexington KY, stop 
by and grab one or two free!.

BTW, I think it boots the disk.  Least it did on my 
diskettes.  I will have to check to see which option they 
are.

Max

...
  I've just come across an HP box containing 5
3.5" 
floppies. They all have 
 original HP labels on them. 

 All the labels contain the following

 Hewlett-Packard
 9000 Series 200/300
 98616A Opt. 045
 BASIC 5.1

 The rest of ithe label depends on the disk : 

 System Disk
 Pat No 98616-10500 Rev. 5.1

 Drivers + Language Ext
 Part No 98616-10501 Rev. 5.1

 Utilities Disc
 Part No 98616-10502 Rev. 5.1

 HFS Utilities
 Part No 98616-10503 Rev. 5.1

 Manual Examples Disc
 Part No 98616-10504 Rev 5.1

 Anyone know what it is, and what machine it runs on?

 -tony

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 98616A Opt. 045
 BASIC 5.1

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 HP BASIC verison 5.1

 Should run on 200's and 300's  
 I'd guessed that much :-) Is this a bootable system, or 
does it run under 
 something else? I've noticed that these disks appear to 
have LIF 
 filesystems on them.

 What does the Opt 045 mean?

 -tony