HP vintage boards being sold as scrap - WON

[Frank McConnell]

On Sep 29, 2019, at 19:32, Guy Dunphy via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> At 10:03 PM 27/09/2019 -0500, JRJ wrote:
>> Thanks for the tip.  (Part of not recognizing that is that I had never
>> made the connection between the 2108B/2112B and the "1000" series
>> before, until I read about it in this thread, and did some poking
>> around.  The HP's have not been one of my priorities in over a couple of
>> decades, and most of of that focus was on my older HP2114B.)
>> 
>> JRJ
> 
> That's always mystified me too. "1000 series" for model numbers like 2108B, 2112B, 2113E, etc.
> Weird corporate thinking. Maybe too much printed material with "1000" on to change?
> Or some other company had trademarked "2000 series” ?

“2000” was occupied by the timeshared BASIC system product line.

-Frank McConnell