1 Nov
2004
1 Nov
'04
12:51 p.m.
I'm looking for an HP2100/A, 2100/S, or 2100/MX. I have HP 1000/F (aka the
2117) to trade - know anyone interested? There's a picture of one of my
2117s attached; I also have one listed on eBay right now...
Gary
9 Nov
9 Nov
8:35 a.m.
You need to change your listing, that computer is not fully intact. You're missing
the Floating Point Unit. (ALL F-series had them.) It's a separate chassis. It's
the top unit in this picture.
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/warehouse/o-hp1000.jpg>.
Joe
At 03:51 PM 11/1/04 -0800, you wrote:
I'm looking for an HP2100/A, 2100/S, or 2100/MX. I
have HP 1000/F (aka the
2117) to trade - know anyone interested? There's a picture of one of my
2117s attached; I also have one listed on eBay right now...
Gary
11 a.m.
At 02:35 PM 11/9/2004, you wrote:
You need to change your listing, that computer is
not fully intact.
You're missing the Floating Point Unit. (ALL F-series had them.) It's a
separate chassis. It's the top unit in this picture.
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/warehouse/o-hp1000.jpg>.
Seems to be missing some boards too.
I went up to Charlotte the other day (the "big city" 90 miles up the road
from me) to pick up a pair of Cipher tape drives I
wanted.
Did a little rooting around the guy's warehouse to help him "clear
out some
space".
Found some stuff I probably could have lived without: an HP counter with
Nixie tubes,
a 0-4000v 0-50ma power supply, a Krown Research PortaPrinterPlus with
keyboard and acoustic coupler, an HP64000 with a skillion spare boards, and
... an HP1000/F.
After hearing Jay brag that the HP's were better than DEC's, I decided to
get it too and see what the big hooraw was.
It looked sort of bare on the inside, board population wise.
And the boards looked on a par with the boards in my Iwatsu Omega IV
telephone system.
Nothing at all like a good solid quad with PDP11 board.
But it did have the floating point unit below.
I asked the guy and he said someone had called him on the phone about
HP1000s and cleaned him out.
I said, "Joe Rigon?" he said, "How'd you know?". He's
everywhere! He's
everywhere! :-)
Anyway I still got it, at least for the blinken-light panel, and who knows,
it might even "power on!". :-)
Ed K.
11:30 a.m.
At 05:00 PM 11/9/04 -0500, you wrote:
At 02:35 PM 11/9/2004, you wrote:
Was that Joe Barkley?
You need to change your listing, that computer
is not fully intact.
You're missing the Floating Point Unit. (ALL F-series had them.) It's a
separate chassis. It's the top unit in this picture.
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/warehouse/o-hp1000.jpg>.
Seems to be missing some boards too.
I went up to Charlotte the other day (the "big city" 90 miles up the road
from me) to pick up a pair of Cipher tape drives I wanted.
Did a little rooting around the guy's warehouse to help him "clear out some
space".
Found some stuff I probably could have lived without: an HP counter with
Nixie tubes,
a 0-4000v 0-50ma power supply, a Krown Research PortaPrinterPlus with
keyboard and acoustic coupler, an HP64000 with a skillion spare boards, and
... an HP1000/F.
After hearing Jay brag that the HP's were better than DEC's, I decided to
get it too and see what the big hooraw was.
It looked sort of bare on the inside, board population wise.
And the boards looked on a par with the boards in my Iwatsu Omega IV
telephone system.
Nothing at all like a good solid quad with PDP11 board.
But it did have the floating point unit below.
I asked the guy and he said someone had called him on the phone about
HP1000s and cleaned him out.
I said, "Joe Rigon?" he said, "How'd you know?". He's
everywhere! He's
everywhere! :-)
LOL! YOu gotta be talking about Joe Barkley! I bug Joe about HP stuff everytime that I
see him! I got a 1000 from him last year at the Orlando hamfest. Over the years I've
bought a fair amount of test equipment from him plus HP calculators, HP-IL stuff, a couple
of HP 3468s and more. Joe's a hell of a nice guy. But I'm to the point that I
don't even have to look for HP 1000s any more. After you acquire a certain critical
mass, similar systems just seems to find their way to you on their own! That's
happened to me with DEC stuff, Tektronix systems, HP 1000s, and more recently with Intel
Multibus stuff.
Anyway I still got it, at least for the blinken-light panel, and who knows,
it might even "power on!". :-)
Go for it! Take a look at <http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/1000/>. Al has a good
selection of manuals for the HP 1000 posted there. A good place to start are with the
memory manuals. Figure out which memory your's has then get the appropriate memory
manual. Your memory is probably already configured but if it's not the manual will
tell you how to do it. At the back of the manual is a simple memory test that you can
punch in via the front panel. The test will test the CPU and memory and give you some
blinking lights to look at. Next get all the pieces of the 1000 MEF Engr Ref manual and
start figuring out what you have installed in it. We'll make an HP fan of you yet!
Joe
Ed K.
11:46 a.m.
At 05:30 PM 11/9/2004, you wrote:
LOL! YOu gotta be talking about Joe Barkley! I bug
Joe about HP stuff
everytime that I see him! I got a 1000 from him last year at the Orlando
hamfest. Over the years I've bought a fair amount of test equipment from
him plus HP calculators, HP-IL stuff, a couple of HP 3468s and more.
Joe's a hell of a nice guy. But I'm to the point that I don't even have
to look for HP 1000s any more. After you acquire a certain critical mass,
similar systems just seems to find their way to you on their own! That's
happened to me with DEC stuff, Tektronix systems, HP 1000s, and more
recently with Intel Multibus stuff.
Yeah, it was Joe Barkley. He really did seem like a hell of a nice guy.
He said he'd keep an eye out for me on HP1000 boards.
He had a lot of HP test equipment and tons of Tektronix systems.
Ed K.
12:47 p.m.
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 17:46 -0500, Ed Kelleher wrote:
Yeah, it was Joe Barkley. He really did seem like a
hell of a nice guy.
He said he'd keep an eye out for me on HP1000 boards.
He had a lot of HP test equipment and tons of Tektronix systems.
If he has any Tek XD88 install media, grab it :) (I don't know of a
surviving copy anywhere)
Same goes for (HP) Apollo Domain/OS ...
5:10 p.m.
I've got Domain/OS media (and a working node...).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: HP2100/HP1000
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 17:46 -0500, Ed Kelleher wrote:
Yeah, it was Joe Barkley. He really did seem
like a hell of a nice guy.
He said he'd keep an eye out for me on HP1000 boards.
He had a lot of HP test equipment and tons of Tektronix systems.
If he has any Tek XD88 install media, grab it :) (I don't know of a
surviving copy anywhere)
Same goes for (HP) Apollo Domain/OS ...
12:48 p.m.
At 05:46 PM 11/9/04 -0500, Ed wrote:
At 05:30 PM 11/9/2004, you wrote:
You should get him to watch for cables, manuals and periphals. They're a lot harder
to find than the systems. The connector hoods on the cables are easy to spot.
LOL! YOu gotta be talking about Joe Barkley! I
bug Joe about HP stuff
everytime that I see him! I got a 1000 from him last year at the Orlando
hamfest. Over the years I've bought a fair amount of test equipment from
him plus HP calculators, HP-IL stuff, a couple of HP 3468s and more.
Joe's a hell of a nice guy. But I'm to the point that I don't even have
to look for HP 1000s any more. After you acquire a certain critical mass,
similar systems just seems to find their way to you on their own! That's
happened to me with DEC stuff, Tektronix systems, HP 1000s, and more
recently with Intel Multibus stuff.
Yeah, it was Joe Barkley. He really did seem like a hell of a nice guy.
He said he'd keep an eye out for me on HP1000 boards. He had a lot of HP test equipment and tons of Tektronix
systems.
Joe was probably piled up with junk because they cancelled the Melbourne hamfest this
year becuase of the hurricanes. (Melbourne got hit less than a week before the hamfest and
most of the power was still out and there were still people living in the auditorium.)
Melbourne is a big hamfest and the first one of the season here in Florida. I think it
and the one in February in Orlando are the only ones that he comes to down here.
Joe
11:56 a.m.
Rumor has it that Ed Kelleher may have mentioned these words:
[snip]
Found some stuff I probably could have lived
without:...[snip]...
... an HP64000 with a skillion spare boards...
I keep telling myself that I want to ditch my 64K, as I don't have much for
it, and it's currently broken (keyboard now has some broken keys thanks to
the daycare kiddies... :-( )... So all it's doing right now is taking up
space & not being used, which is what I'd prefer.
... I have no software, no floppy drive (it's got a tape drive which is
prolly nonfunctional, as I doubt it's been used in 15 years, if ever - it
network booted) but the internal diags check out (well, as of 3 years ago
they did) and the Moto 6800 pod. If I had the 6809 pod & a floppy drive
with enough software to boot it, it would insure a lasting spot in my
house. The 68K pod would be nice, too.
(Other spare parts would be a plus as well...)
Anyway... Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
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