HP Integral

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri Jul 18 17:33:00 2003

> >> Alas much of it (C development stuff, etc) is still HP copyright and
> >> therefroe can't be distributed.
> >
> >How close is it to being considered abandonware by HP?
>
>
> I know for a fact that HP dropped support for these many years ago and
> literally threw out their remaining software/hardware/manuals/testers. I
> think we can safely say that they've abandoned it.

THis does _not_ mean it's no longer copyrighted, and I respect the fact
that the owner of the site mentioned earlier doesn't distribute such
stuff. Some companies (including I believe HP on one occasion) have been
unpleasant about such things.

>
> BTW I have HP-IL cards, serial port cards, a combined serial port and
> memory card, Technical BASIC in ROM and even a Diagnostics ROM for the IPC.

I asusme the diagnostic ROM is a cartridge that fits in place of the OS
ROM cartridge. There's a 6 pin header on the Logic A (CPU + memory) PCB
that appears to be for connecting to a signature analyser which I assume
is used with this. There's also that 4 way DIP shunt in the 16 pin socket
that can be moved to disable the MMU and off-board memory (IIRC), maybe
that's used for diagnostics.

> I think I have all or nearly all of the docs, software and manuals that

Was there ever a (hardware) technical reference manual?

> they ever produced for it. And yes, the Tech BASIC ROM is made of standard
> parts.

Is this Tech BASIC ROM a plug-in card that goes into one of the expansion
slots, or a daughterboard in the OS cartridge, or what?

-tony
Received on Fri Jul 18 2003 - 17:33:00 BST