Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote: I've been doing stuff with HPs for over 20 years now (mostly with 3000s and HP PCs), and some of it stuck. But I've never worked with Series 200s so don't know that much about them, just what I've picked up here and there. And I still think I have a lot to learn. Why do I know about Series 500s? In 1989 I took a job at a little company called The Wollongong Group, supporting a product for the HP 3000 called WIN/TCP for MPE/V. Little did I know, they also had a product for the HP 9000 Series 500s called, straightforwardly enough, WIN/TCP for HP 9000 Series 500. They expected me to support that too -- after all it's all HP stuff, it's all weird/how different can it be? (yep, that's how they thought) -- so I did. Somewhere along the way I decided I wanted a windowing environment that could handle HP terminal emulation on my desk, and after fooling around a bit with PCs I saw some guy up in Berkeley trying to be rid of a 9000 Series 320. So I bought it, and it was good. That sat there 'til early 1994 when I got retreaded into a Windows device driver kind of guy. Now I guess it's part of my collection -- it sits in the storage closet. 9000 Vectra? My recollection of the Vectra family is that it's all IBM-compatibles (well, mostly, I remember the earliest Vectras and they were about 99% if you allowed for the HP-isms that snuck in, like the HP-HIL interface for the keyboard and mouse, the HP keyboard with the f1-f8 keys across the top, and the funky HP Multimode MDA/CGA display adapter) and never was a part of the 9000 family. Though I think I remember something about a coprocessor card (set?) you could stick in ISA slot(s) to run Rocky Mountain BASIC. Of course HP would have sold that in/for Vectra boxes. Every once in a while I see a flavor of 9000/200 that is built into or around an HP 2382 terminal housing: small, beige skin, brown bezel around 9" monochrome CRT. I think some of the ones I've seen were hooked up to 91[23]x disk drives, and can't remember whether the processor was in a similarly-sized box or in the terminal. Could that be it? I think the HP Integral PC was also the HP 9000/207 though I don't know if it was ever sold under that name. -Frank McConnell "I want my MPE" (w/apologies to Dire Straits) <fmc(a)reanimators.org>