HP-85 Re: anyone in rochester?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Thu Aug 28 08:15:48 2003

At 11:00 AM 8/27/03 -0400, vp wrote:
>First most of the ROMs for the 85 are available from my site
> http://www.series80.org/Images

  Good! I'll have to book mark that one.

>
>BTW I have finally managed to get a 98155A keyboard for my 9915's

  Congradulations! Where did you find it? It took me years to find one.


>(the embedded version of the the 85, brochure at
>http://www.series80.org/Manuals/HP9915A.pdf)
>
>I am also expecting a bunch of manuals for the 9915s. I hope to have them
>up on my site by the end of the month.

   GREAT! I've been looking for those for years. The only one that I have
is for networking the 9915s.


>
>
>Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>> The 85 is a fine machine, it's too bad that they saddled it with a tape
>> drive! It would have been a great machine if they would have replaced the
>> tape drive with a 3.5" floppy drive.
>But they did! Its called the HP Integral PC. Its faster, more compact,
>has an ergonomic keyboard, and even has Unix when you want to go around
>the back and fiddle with things.

   BAAA! It's just not as COOL as the 85! (I have numerous examples of both).

   Joe

>
>Too bad its not as cute as the 85.
>
>**vp
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