I have a number of HP test instruments that I want to control from my
recently acquired 86B. Originally I was looking for an 85 but was
advised the best way to go was either the 86B or 87XLT. I bought the
unit at an affordable price and it's now on it's way to me. I'm sure I
can find a suitable monitor for it but I understand that it will need
an external HPIB disk drive unit to work. The research I've done so
far at the HP Museum shows a number of disk units I could use but a
search on e..y shows they are quite rare and quite expensive!
What are my options for providing storage for this unit and is there
any way I can achieve this economically? Maybe I should have done more
research up front but the software I want to run seems to be written
in HP BASIC so it seemed like the best way to go.
Steve
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I have a number of HP test instruments that I want to control from my recently acquired 86B. Originally I was looking for an 85 but was advised the best way to...
Hi Steve, As HP86B has built in HPIB interface you only need a cable to link 86B & each instrument and your drive unit. I guess they did not have a drive as...
Hi Ash, I understand that the HP86B has the HPIB interface and the instruments I wish to control also have this. I have cables to connect the 86B to the ...
Hi Steve, The HP86B has rom based basic so you just turn it on and start programing. It has an Electronic Disk (memory can be configured as disk - ED...
Hi Ash, I'm going to need something that is non volatile so some form of the many options of disk drive is going to be the order of the day here and it's going...
I don't know if this has been done as yet, but Bruce Lane of Bluefeather Technologies maintains an archive of old ROM data. IMO, it'd be worth getting as many...
I meant that, since Bruce maintains an archive of HP and Tek stuff already, it might be useful to provide him with S80 ROM contents, so the information is not...
Many HP-85 / 86 Rom dumps are made by John Shadbolt http://www.vintagecomputers.freeserve.co.uk/hp85/ for his HP-85 super rom project. -Rik _____ Van:...
Is it possible to build your own ROMs from these images and somehow fit them into a ROM drawer? Steve 2009/10/13 J. Forster <jfor@...> ... -- Steve Rooke...
I don't know about the calculators, but it's routinely done for other instruments. Some of the files are Intel Hex format which goes into EPROM programmers...
Is not that simple as finding an EPROM with the right pinout. The expansion ROMs are a proprietary HP design that include part of the address decoding logic,...
Hi again Jorge, You have confirmed my findings on this. Now, if the ROM Drawer has no logic on the board, is the EPROM Drawer similar or does it have a lot of ...
Hi Steve, let me combine the response to your last two messages. There are two different "ROM drawers" for the HP Series 80, the most common and perhaps more...
As I understand it with a bit of googling around, these are not just simple EPROMs and so that does not look like a way of adding ROMS to the ROM Drawer. Steve...
Hi Ash, 2009/10/13 ash_chook <ash_chook@...> ... Thanks for the pointers, a lot of useful information in there and so much to learn. ... I'll try to...
Hi Steve, There's a few very talented members that go far back & beyond just collectors here, some have produced 3rd party programable rom draws & other types...
I've been working in a project trying to emulate the functionality of several modules using an external microcontroller. Besides putting together a clone of...
Hi Jorge, That sounds very interesting and it sounds like a good way to impliment this. In my case there is no need for the HP-IB interface as it's already ...
Hi Ash, That's very encouraging news for me as I'm sure there will be a myriad of questions I will need answered as soon as I really get going with this ...
The Mass-Storage ROM is build in in the HP-86B you can use a HP9121S or D without any other ROM's inserted unlike the HP-85A the HP-85B has also the MS-Rom...
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