At 01:44 PM 8/20/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I've just come across an HP 9000/300 and 9000/220 in a dumpster over here
>at University Salvage. I see that the 300 has a 68010 (first one I've
>owned), but am not sure about the 220. Both have video and 'keyboard'
>connections.
>
>I've found some 300 info using google, but nothing helpful on the 220.
You probably have an hp9000/310 . I typed a little about them
when I auctioned off all of mine:
http://nazas.autonoma.edu.co/hp310.html
http://nazas.autonoma.edu.co/hp310orange.html
You need an HP-HIL keyboard and a monitor such as this for it:
http://nazas.autonoma.edu.co/hp35731a.jpg
In addition, you need an HPIB HD with the HPBASIC OS.
These machines are OK for instrument control, although I find
that my viper card (essentially the same system in an ISA card,
which you can then use from DOS) is far more useful.
The 9000/220 is the little sister of this one (9000/236C):
http://nazas.autonoma.edu.co/hp9836c.html
The monitors for these are very hard to come by, so a 220 without
a monitor is hardly useful. The one above, with monitor, went for
about $200 on ebay back in 2000. How much memory does it have? I think
that 220 memory could work in early hp300 models (236 memory
certainly worked).
The 200 series machines are interesting if you have the software.
>Also, are these worth anything? I've got no drives with them, but I did
>get a bunch of lab I/O boxes (multimeter, and other things) with them.
These could be interesting. Can you describe them?
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Tue Aug 20 2002 - 14:39:00 BST
