HP 2000 TSB status update

From: Bob Brown <bbrown_at_harper.cc.il.us>
Date: Mon Apr 9 14:02:28 2001

Awsome! Here's hoping you can get 'er all up and running! I'm quite
envious...The first computer that I ever used was an hp2000 system (owned by
the local high school district...I was 10 years old...our local public library
had a public access terminal that could be used to dial into the hp).

A while back I was a computer operator here at the college, and we also had
an HP2000 system (that I got to backup etc).....loved keying in the paper tape
loader (in octal) from the panel and reading the paper (plastic) tape to
get the system bootstrapped.

Someday, if I ever have the chance and the room, I'd love to play with some
old hp equipment....sigh........

If you get your system online, and decide to make it accessable via
the internet, a few old hp2000 friends of mine and I would love to be
able to telnet in and try running some old programs that I saved from
the good old days!

Good Luck and Have Fun!!!!!

-Bob


>At long last, the 7900A drive is working reliably - and passes all
>diagnostics. The dual 2100 cpus are fully tested, as is the processor
>interconnect kit.
>
>The last major peripheral I have to get up and running is my 7970E tape
>drive - that's being worked on right now.
>
>Soon as that's done - I can start loading the HP2000 Access TSB operating
>system. After that system is up, I'll then build an HP2000E system using a
>21MX cpu instead; all parts are on-hand for that.
>
>Items I'm still looking for desparately:
>The HP2000 IOP firmware for the 21MX cpu's (I have the firmware for 2100's,
>but need it for the 21MX's).
>Need the diags for the 7970E on paper tape, the newer version that uses the
>diagnostic configurator (have 7970E diags, but they're the old
>non-configurator style).
>System operators guide for 2000E (Al? Eric??, Bob Curtis wants his
>manual!!).

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