Roger,
You MUST have the HP version. Send me your address and I'll make you a
copy the next time I have mine fired up. (It might not be anytime soon.)
There is also a version 3.1 (3.2? I don't remember exactly) but you have to
have a certain ROM revision level for it to work.
Joe
At 10:58 PM 7/29/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Say, while I'm wasting everyone's time, where might I obtain a boot
>disk for my HP 150? Would any version of Dos 2.1 work or do I need
>an HP version. And many thanks all. This really is a swell bunch of
>people you have here!!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: CLASSICCMP-owner_at_u.washington.edu
>[mailto:CLASSICCMP-owner_at_u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of
>jeff.kaneko_at_juno.com
>Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 10:38 PM
>To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
>Subject: GPIB,'C' and the HP-150 (was:Re: Tek 4041)
>
>
>
>
>On Thu, 29 Jul 1999 21:51:04 Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net> writes:
>>Tony,
>>
>>At 11:16 PM 7/29/99 +0100, you wrote:
>>>> , but
>>>> >doesn't the HP150 have an IEEE-488 port (aka GPIB, HPIB) as
>>>> >standard.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, it does but the 150 uses the port to connect to
>peripherals
>>>> operating under MS-DOS. It has no commands that will let you
>send or
>>>> recieve specific strings over the HP-IB.
>>>
>>>That's news to me (and I guess to HP). The HP150 Technical
>Reference
>>>Manual has a section entitled 'HPIB Interfacing' which describes
>how to
>
>>>use the HPIB port for non-disk devices.
>>>
>>
>> THAT's news to me! I've never heard of using a 150 as a HP-IB
>>controller and I have a large STACK of 150 documentation and none
>of
>>it even hints that you can what you're talking about. Can you
>make a
>>copy of that for me? S_at_#* and I've got a pile of 150s setting out
>in
>the
>>rain cause I had no use for them!
>
>Now see, I figured that you knew this, Joe. I remember when I was
>working for motorola, they tried to market an automated radio test
>system that used an HP-150 as an instrument controller, attached
>(via GPIB) to a service monitor, and a *BIG* interface box called a
>'barn' that routed the audio, PTT, etc.
>
>It didn't sell. The application software sucked.
>
><SNIP>
>
>> In C? Is there a C that will run on the 150? Most of the
>software
>>has to be tailored specificly for the 150 or else be VERY MS-DOS
>>compatible with no short cuts. I've heard of BASIC, Assembler and
>Pascal
>that
>>will run on the 150 but I haven't heard of a C compiler that would.
>
>I suspect any version of 'C' that is a straight command-line
>c-compiler
>*ought* to work (using dos calls only, of course). Hmmm. Turbo C
>1.0
>comes to mind. The hard part will be getting the HP-150
>implementation
>of dos 2.x (or better, 3.x).
>
>Dang it Joe, see what you've done? Now I have to buy an HP-150 to
>try
>this out. S_at_#*. :^)
>
>Jeff
>
>
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