At 06:10 PM 4/22/04 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Joe,
>does it run a version of HP Pascal too ?
I'm not sure but I believe it will. I think I remember reading that it
will boot an OS from an external HP-IB drive just like a regular 9000/200
will. I need to dig out a drive and try it.
Joe
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>Thanks Bernd
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>On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:24:23 -0400, Joe R. wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> HP's Viper and HyperViper site >>
>><http://ftp.agilent.com/pub/mpusup/pc/old/vp_over.html#m5>
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>> Joe
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Received on Thu Apr 22 2004 - 11:38:08 BST