Hi Joe,
does it run a version of HP Pascal too ?
Thanks Bernd
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:24:23 -0400, Joe R. wrote:
> Today I finally had a chance to check out a PC that I found a few weeks
>ago. I had picked it up becuase it had an HP-IB connector on one of the
>expansion cards. When I looked closer I saw that the card had a sticker
>marked "HP 82324". Bingo! That's the part number of the souped-up
>Measurement Coprocessor card that's commonly called a HyperViper! I have a
>number of Viper cards with 68000 CPUs but I'd never even seen a HyperViper
>card. The HyperViper uses a 16MHz 68030 CPU. The Vipers and HyperVipers are
>HP 9000 series 200 or series 300 computers on a board. You install them in
>a PC and run a driver and it switches over to the 680xx CPU and runs
>(almost!) exactly like HP 9000 computer. It has a built-in HP-IB port and
>supports additional HP-IB cards. It also mounts a HP 9000 file system in
>one file on the PCs hard drive. It uses the PC's parallel and serial ports
>and uses the PC's keybaord and monitor for user I/O. Anyway today I opened
>it up and cleaned all the dirt and insects out and fired it up. It booted
>to DOS then loaded the HP software then switched over to the HyperViper
>card and booted HP BASIC version 6.2 (Rocky Mountain BASIC) without a
>hitch. Wahoo! I'm in business now! It even has the last version (D.00.00)
>of the HP divers.
>
> HP's Viper and HyperViper site >>
><http://ftp.agilent.com/pub/mpusup/pc/old/vp_over.html#m5>
>
> Joe
Received on Thu Apr 22 2004 - 11:10:07 BST