MS BASIC for a Panasonic HHC RL-H1400

From: evan <evan947_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Mar 5 18:47:53 2004

Mine came in a brown soft case, from a company called
Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance.

--- Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
>
> Sellam Ismail
> Vintage Computer Festival
>
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