HP Integral PC - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Mar 1998

Doug,

At 01:09 AM 3/8/98 -0600, you wrote:
...
 I've had an HP IPC near the bottom of my wish list
for a while, and I
might be able to get one.  The owner wasn't impressed with my first offer,
but there may still be hope.

Does anybody else have one of these?  
  Yeap, I have two of them.  I love them.

...
  I've never actually seen one, but 
  Then go look at "http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/hp9807.htm".  

...
 the thought of an early portable Unix box appeals to
me.  I seem to
remember they ran an early (1.0?) version of HP/UX on a 68K (?) from ROM
(?). 
   Only a ****VERY*** minimal system was run out of the built-in ROM.
Usually HP-UX was run from an external hard drive or the built-in floppy
drive. There was a plug-in ROM available that contained a complete HP-UX
system. It was called the "Software Engineering ROM". It was optional and
VERY rare. Disk based BASIC was available for the IPC and was also
available in a plug-in ROM.
...

Any additional info (and offers to give me one) appreciated. 
  Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!  Fat chance!

   Joe

...

BTW, I also saw a Mentor Graphics box today.  It said something like
series 400, model 425.  I vaguely remember that Mentor sold rebadged
Apollos with their CAD software.  I was never crazy about Apollo Domain OS
from a programmer's perspective, but I do remember it being fairly
innovative/interesting at the time, so I'm thinking about getting the box.
Attempts to talk me out of it are warmly welcomed.

Thanks,
Doug