**RARE** "Altair-like" HP1000 minicomputer K00L K00L Vintage! <grin>

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Mon Jun 7 23:49:00 1999

At 07:47 PM 6/7/99 -0700, Charles P. Hobbs wrote:
>
>Has anyone heard of the HP1000 anyway, at least in a home/hobbyist
>context? It looks more like an industrial-type computer to me, something
>that would have never seen the inside of most private homes, unlike the
>Altair or IMSAI. . .

Ok, so call me odd (you would not be the first)... But I have a pair of HP
1000F CPUs (aka HP 2117F).

One of the early systems I used in school was a timeshared BASIC system
that ran on HP CPUs, so there is a sentimental attachment here.

Pictures on my web pages...

-jim

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