"Phil Guerney" <guerney_at_uq.net.au> wrote:
> The state (Qld, Australia) main roads department are selling a job lot of 16
> x HP1000 A-series systems.
>
> http://www.qits.net.au/hp1000/
>
> Are these the same HP 1000's that are listed in the Comprehensive Computer
> Catalog as being introduced in 1976?
No. Those are probably the 1000 M, E, and F-series and are basically
21MX processors with the "HP1000" name applied. The A-series are
later models. A600s were introduced in 1983, A400s in 1987 or 1988.
I think they're largely compatible (e.g. they share a lot of the same
peripheral I/O cards with the older 2100-family machines, and I think
the processor has largely the same instruction set) but they're mostly
smaller and faster.
> - just a few km from that stash of HP1000's, but they are way out of my
> league.
Get some friends to help?
-Frank McConnell
Received on Sun May 02 1999 - 18:31:58 BST