HP 9000/840S is alive (sorta)

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Mon Jun 7 18:48:50 1999

Steve,

At 04:13 PM 6/7/99 -0400, you wrote:
>For anyone that cares...

  I care!
>
>This weekend I fired up my new (old) HP 9000/840S minicomputer.
>
>The 840S is a fairly large minicomputer circa 1987. This particular unit is
>fully loaded with 24MB of RAM (I think 12MB was standard), 36 serial ports,
>4 HPIB interface cards, a SCSI card, and a LAN interface.

  I expected that it would be. NASA doesn't do things on the cheap! For
the ones of you that don't know, this thing came from Cape Kennedy.

  Glad to hear you got it working.

   Joe
Received on Mon Jun 07 1999 - 18:48:50 BST