HP1000 F & A700 - pictures

From: Adrian Vickers <avickers_at_solutionengineers.com>
Date: Mon Feb 24 16:31:00 2003

Evenin' all.

Uploaded tonight for your viewing pleasure, just over 60 pix of the
HP1000's that Tim found & saved a few weeks ago, now parked lovingly (erm)
in my shed...

http://classic-micros.com/hp1000

(Note to Hans: I *know* I've not put the picture sizes in the img tags, I'm
just too darn lazy, OK?)

:)

Anyway, a brief tale of what happened this last w/e...

On Saturday, I picked up the 3 terminals & assorted other tapes, plus the
disc controller from Tim, thus completing the rescue. Back to the shed for
some well deserved tinkering time :)

A long poke around in the manuals convinced me that:

a) I have no docs for the F-series machines :( They're all for the A700...
b) There was no system installation guide :(

Thus thwarted, I decided buggrit, I'll carry out the cardinal sin, and just
power the things up anyway. Fortunately, a kindly sysadmin had labelled the
tape drive connectors, so they could be applied to the correct slot. Not so
with the MUX cable; and besides, the other end of the MUX seemed to be
missing anyway (i.e the DeMUXer). So, my total experimentation with the
F-series was limited to pressing buttons on the panel and getting the
blinkenlights to blinken. Which they did in a most satisfactory manner, I
might add. Efforts to do anything with the tape drive were also effectively
thwarted; I did manage to get a tape loaded, and the "on line" light to
blinken (well, "come on" would be more accurate"). No amount of pressing
front panel buttons would make them spin on their own, however.

Ho hum.

So, I tried the A700, which at least will talk to a terminal.
Unfortunately, it won't listen to the terminal, so there's something a bit
fishy going on there as well. That boot screen was as far as I got.

Ho hum ^ 2.

So, I made do with loading a disc (dunno where to plug it in to the 1000,
though, so can't load anything from it, even if I knew the correct
pushenbutton sequence).

Questions/requests arising:

1) Does *anyone* here know anyone (or IS someone) who is/was a sysadmin (or
related/married to same) of an F-series HP 1000? If so, can you/they render
any help?

2) Does anyone have access to a set of F-series manuals, especially
installation reference manuals? If so, are they in electronic format; if
not, can you/they bear to part with them for at least as long as it will
take me to scan them?

3) Has anyone got a suitable demuxer? (8-port, takes centronix plug & has 8
D25 socket outputs)

Cheers y'all.
-- 
Cheers, Ade.
Be where it's at, B-Racing!
http://b-racing.com
Received on Mon Feb 24 2003 - 16:31:00 GMT

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