HP Integral Re: the new Apple iMac

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Sat May 9 07:13:38 1998

At 01:35 PM 5/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 8 May 1998, Don Maslin wrote:
>
>> I learned from a friend who picked it up (for $3.10) at the swapmeet that
>> HP made a lunchbox that had HP-UX all in ROM. No drives in the box.
>
>The Integral PC! Tell him I'll give him $10 for it :-) It is 68K-based
>and has a small subset of HP-UX in ROM, but it really wants to boot from a
>disk hanging off its HPIB bus.

  Not exactly, it has a built-in floppy drive that you can boot from, or
you can use an external drive on the HP-IB. >BUT< they also had an
optional ROM that contained an entire HP-UX system. HP called it a
software engineering ROM. From what i've been told they're extremely rare.
HP also made another ROM that contained a complete HP Technical BASIC in it.

  I just picked up my third IPC. One of mine has the Technical Basic Rom,
one has the HP-UX ROM but the last one has both! :-)

   Joe
Received on Sat May 09 1998 - 07:13:38 BST