"Peter Pachla" <peter.pachla_at_wintermute.org.uk> wrote:
> If that's the one which looks very much like the terminals HP supply with
> their HP 3000 series mainframes then I'd very much like to get my hands on
> one (not to mention an HP-120 or 125).
There are two styles of 150. One is the 150A/B, and in rough outline
it looks something like a 120 or 2382 terminal but does have different
casework from those. These models have a 9-inch display screen; I
think the only differences between A and B are the ROM'd firmware and
accompanying MS-DOS version (and I do recall that it was possible to
upgrade a 150A to a 150B with a firmware-and-software swap) but
someone else may know better.
Then there is the 150-II aka 150C aka Touchscreen II. It's in a boxy
enclosure with tiltable 12" display screen. I think the 2392 terminal
might have similar styling (2393 does not, it uses the 37531A pale
green-screen monitor with the terminal logic in a separate box).
After HP introduced the Vectra (PC-compatible, at least more so than
the 150) and 150 sales dropped off, and ran out of 2647F terminals, HP
started shipping 150-IIs as consoles for /68 and /70 systems. (Maybe
/64s too.)
Unfortunately I have no idea what kind of terminals HP sell these
days. 700/9x? I don't think they ever made a 150 that looks like
those, although they did make some monochrome VGA monitors in a
similarly-styled case.
-Frank McConnell
Received on Sun Feb 06 2000 - 23:11:41 GMT