IBM 5150, am I nuts or what?

From: Megan <mbg_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Mar 22 20:13:53 2000

>Speaking of which, has the HP-85 totally disappeared? My dad had one
>briefly when I was in high school, I remember using it to cheat on my
>calc homework and brought in adding machine tapes with the graphs I
>didn't feel like sketching by hand... And there was one in the computer
>showroom on the second floor of the Harvard Coop. But I haven't seen one
>since. IIRC, the BASIC "PRINT" statement *really* meant print, if you
>wanted the display to be on the tiny CRT you had to use something else,
>"TYPE" maybe? The way they stuck the BASIC keywords on single keys (like
>a ZX81, only you didn't have to use them) was crazy, they were scattered
>all over the place. But the combination of a cartridge tape drive,
>adding machine printer, and teeny tiny CRT was kind of neat, each part
>was low-end crap but if you put them all together it was a pretty usable
>system.

They show up at flea markets from time to time... I've seen a number
of them at the MIT flea... I have one. Yes, the command PRINT does
so to the integral printer... DISPLAY outputs to the screen. The
tape drive uses the same cartridges as the TU58, though I am not
sure if the formatting is the same...

                                        Megan Gentry
                                        Former RT-11 Developer

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