HP2100/HP1000

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Tue Nov 9 17:48:03 2004

At 05:46 PM 11/9/04 -0500, Ed wrote:
>At 05:30 PM 11/9/2004, you wrote:
>> LOL! YOu gotta be talking about Joe Barkley! I bug Joe about HP stuff
>> everytime that I see him! I got a 1000 from him last year at the Orlando
>> hamfest. Over the years I've bought a fair amount of test equipment from
>> him plus HP calculators, HP-IL stuff, a couple of HP 3468s and more.
>> Joe's a hell of a nice guy. But I'm to the point that I don't even have
>> to look for HP 1000s any more. After you acquire a certain critical mass,
>> similar systems just seems to find their way to you on their own! That's
>> happened to me with DEC stuff, Tektronix systems, HP 1000s, and more
>> recently with Intel Multibus stuff.
>
>Yeah, it was Joe Barkley. He really did seem like a hell of a nice guy.
>He said he'd keep an eye out for me on HP1000 boards.

  You should get him to watch for cables, manuals and periphals. They're a lot harder to find than the systems. The connector hoods on the cables are easy to spot.



>He had a lot of HP test equipment and tons of Tektronix systems.
>

  Joe was probably piled up with junk because they cancelled the Melbourne hamfest this year becuase of the hurricanes. (Melbourne got hit less than a week before the hamfest and most of the power was still out and there were still people living in the auditorium.) Melbourne is a big hamfest and the first one of the season here in Florida. I think it and the one in February in Orlando are the only ones that he comes to down here.

   Joe
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