MS BASIC for a Panasonic HHC RL-H1400

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Mar 3 23:31:05 2004

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> > Searching has indicated that a ROM "capsule" containing a version of
> > MicroSoft BASIC was available. Does anyone have one of these capsules, or
> > a dump of a ROM that can be written to a new ROM? The computers that I
> > have came from insurance agents and have insurance software on the ROMs
> > that came with the computers.
> > The insurance ROMs are Motorola MCM 68764C and appear to be UVEPROMs.
>
> You and the rest of the HHC community. I've got an HHC myself, and all
> mine has are the insurance EPROMs, too. I've done some snooping and found
> other HHC owners, and they're looking for these mythical BASIC ROMs just
> as feverishly!

A few years ago I was heading up a bulk purchase of these things from a
guy who acquired them from an insurance agency in Canada or something. We
had a couple dozen units spoken for and then the seller pulled out. I
forget what he ended up doing with them but I think he found a more
lucrative avenue (eBay maybe). I wouldn't be surprised if the ones you
have are from this guy, but then again the HHC was used in a lot of
insurance applications, probably originating from the same company that
modified them for actuarial operation and sold them off to various
insurance agencies.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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