HP 125

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Sat Oct 28 08:30:51 2000

At 10:47 PM 10/27/00 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 10/27/00 5:46:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>rigdonj_at_intellistar.net writes:
>
>> Hey, I have one of those. It's the same shape and size as a HP 9816.
>> It's a great little CPM machine. Don M. has a lot of software for it and I
>> have some of the SW. Somebody has got to save this one!
>
>Joe;
>
>You are thinking of the 120, that is the one that looks like the HP 9816.


    You're probably right but they're both great machines.

>
>The 125 looks like a terminal on a square goose neck. The 125 is a great CPM
>computer. However it uses it's own keyboard which I don't think goes with
>anything else. I hope the keyboard is there.


  So do I. I have one, I'll look up the PN later and post it so that anyone
that wants it can check on the keyboard.



I also think it uses drives with
>the large HP connector that looks like a centronics.


   I have both models and they both have HP-IB ports. The large SCSI
looking connector is/was actually HP's standard serial connector. I've run
both of my machines off of HP 9121 drives and they work fine (Bill has
several of those drives too.)

I am not sure if it has
>HPIB. I think it came before HP standardized on HPIB.
>
>I used to have one many years ago.


   Believe it or not, I have the 120 that you used to have. Dan picked it
up at your auction and traded it to me. I brought it home in my airline
luggage. That's one of the things that I like about the 120, it's nice and
small.

>Paxton
>
Received on Sat Oct 28 2000 - 08:30:51 BST