HP Integral questions

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu Aug 7 15:53:01 2003

> At 04:57 PM 8/5/03 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >> 1) What's the space on top, under the printer cover, for? I've found the
> >
> >I've only seen it used for mouse/cable storage.
>
> That's exactly what HP says that it's for. It's just space left over from

As I mentioned last night, I eventually found this mentioned in the
cartoon strips at the front of the user manual...

> stuffing a MOL standard size ThinkJet prointer on top of the Integral.

'MOL' ?

The Thinkjet mechanism is the standard chassis, but the cables (the
prinhead tapewire, the stepper motor leads, etc) are longer to reach to
the bottom of the Logic B PCB. Which means standard Thinkjet parts don't
fit without modification...

> >> 4) A really long shot, but that expansion unit card is taking up a slot
> >> that could be better used for something else. So does anyone know where I
> >> might find a serial card (either RS232 or current loop, preferably the
> >> former) or a GPIO card?
>
> Nope.

Oh well, I did say it was a long shot :-)


> >> I also think I need a hard disk. I have whichever version of the 9133 is
> >> around 20Mbytes here, which I believe should work. However, I have
> >> questions about that too
>
> I think most of the HP-IB disk drives will work on the IPC even though

The 9133H (which is what I have) works fine, and makes the machine a lot
more useable. The manual lists a number of drives that are supported
(looks to be those that use the SS/80 protocol?), I would guess others
work too (for example the 9123 is not listed, the 9122 is. I suspect the
9123 will work if you can find a way to power it).

-tony
Received on Thu Aug 07 2003 - 15:53:01 BST