HP 9836 systems and Fuji Pictrography 4000 printer available

[Curious Marc]

David,
That's very nice of you, but I think I got all I need from Bob this week-end. 
Marc


> On May 27, 2017, at 5:45 PM, David Collins <davidkcollins2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Marc, I'm scrapping a 9826 right now as part of a clean-up of the HP Computer Museum and have a keyboard (or specific keycaps) and power switch available for the cost of shipping.  If you have any specific IO boards you are after I might have some of those spare as well. 
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> Let me know. 
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> David Collins
> HP Computer Museum
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Curious Marc via cctalk
> Sent: Sunday, 28 May 2017 7:04 AM
> To: Bob Rosenbloom <bobalan at sbcglobal.net>; cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: HP 9836 systems and Fuji Pictrography 4000 printer available
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> Bob,
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> I might not take the whole machines, but I could use parts. I am missing a few key caps/switches and a power switch on mine (the three of them which come... from you!). And extra IO boards are always welcome. Before you scrap everything, let me know if I can come on Sunday.
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> Marc
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> From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of "cctalk at classiccmp.org" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Reply-To: Bob Rosenbloom <bobalan at sbcglobal.net>, "cctalk at classiccmp.org" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Date: Saturday, May 27, 2017 at 1:51 PM
> To: Tony Duell <ard.p850ug1 at gmail.com>, "cctalk at classiccmp.org" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Subject: Re: HP 9836 systems and Fuji Pictrography 4000 printer available
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> On 5/26/2017 12:50 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
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> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Bob Rosenbloom via cctalk
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> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> Spring cleaning time!
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> I have three vintage HP 9836 computers, two monochrome monitors, one color
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> monitor and three printers.
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> I'm sure they are going to need work to get running. No testing has been
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> done. Could probably get two out
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> of the three working. Somewhere I have a few various I/O cards also that
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> will be included.
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> The video boards (in the main unit, under the left disk drive) are different
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> between mono and colour versions of the 9836. You can't use a colour
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> monitor on a monochrome machine or vice versa. So if somebody
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> ends up taking 1 or 2 machines, make sure you get the right monitors.
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> An easy way to tell them apart without dismantling is that the colour
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> machine has a thumbwheel (contrast control) on the bottom.. Left
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> side, about level with the front of the drives. The mono machine
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> doesn't. The mono motor has a knob on the back, the colour
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> monitor has an IEC mains connector.
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> -tony
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> I looked at the three machines. Two are monochrome and the third has a 
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> sticker saying it's been upgraded to
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> an 9836C so that's the one for the color monitor.
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> Unfortunately, it looks like no one is interested in them so they might 
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> get scrapped. Oh well... I just don't have
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> room to keep everything.
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> Bob
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