... Cristie ... cassette ... what's on it, ... Dear Bill I have a few old tape drives here in the UK. I guess the tape you have is similar to a DC2000 series...
Assume that two people want to exchange HP-85 software on tapes (one of them does not have a floppy drive so tapes are the last resort). Each of them has...
Juergen, There is some tolerance against capstand wear, when a tape is unit is frequently used the capstand rubber igets a little thinner by the presure of the...
Rik, thank you for your comments. Before spending hours and hours with copying software to tapes I wanted to get some confidence that it is not a wasted...
I have a 9121 and a 9133 device, both with 3 1/2 inch floppy drive(s). I can read/write floppies with both, my HP-85 (plus MASS STORAGE) and my HP-86. But I...
Jürgen, What kind of disc's are you using ? You need to use DD disc's , some times you need them to "preformat" / erase under MSDOS with [format a: /f:720...
Rik, thank you much for your quick response. ... Yes, I use DD discs. I tried to preformat them under DOS but it did not make any change. ... I waited for more...
Jürgen wrote... ... That tickles my memory somehow. The original disc drives available for the Series 80 were the 5 1/4" floppy drives. The 3 1/2" diskette ...
I may be wrong, but as far as I remember to be able to initialize the 3 1/2" floppies with drives such as the HP9133D/H/L that uses the SS-80 protocol, you...
Amigo is supported by the standaard Mass Storage ROM and the the 9121 supports Amigo. I use a 9121 on both my 85's one 85A and a 85B. Never experianced any...
... Yes, both my drives (an 9121D and a 9133XV) support the Amigo protocol. So EMS should not be required. ... 9121 drive. Does that mean that you can...
Jürgen wrote... ... No, the closest would be the checksum which was in the last 2 or 4 bytes of the ROM, which you could look at and compare between ROMs ...
I'm going to verify it, this evening or tomorrow. But first I have to clean two Vectra's (ES/12 and and VL2) I bought today on a flea market. Both are complete...
Rik, thank you much for testing. I will compare the serial numbers with my 85A system. I assume that the drive is OK because it fully works with my HP-86. ...
Rik, I looked up the serial no. of my HP-85A and 9121D: - HP-85A s/n 1949A000332 (a rather early one) - 9121D s/n 2229A13992 I did the tests with only a Mass...
Folks, I've got 5 ea 82903A 16K memory modules, a 82928A System Monitor, a 82936A ROM drawer and an HP85 with about 12 sticking key plus the normal gummy wheel...
Hi Malcolm, I'm interested in the 82928A System Monitor. I'm working on a new ROM emulator and interested to learn more about the system monitor. Here is my...
I could use the ROM drawer and the memory modules. Happy to pay shipping to Brooklyn... - David D ... 82936A ROM ... wheel tape drive. L1 ... Because of the...
I recently acquired an HP85B in an effort to use it as a controller for some old test equipment. The tape drive won't work, it give a "STALL" error. This...
Hi, The LED is a mini bulb but you can replace it with a standaard 3,5mm IR or White LED. If the capstand isn't refurbisched the last 10 years it will give...
I found a website recently with lots of Series 80 stuff - but now it's gone? www.series80.org Now just "page load error" : ^ ( [Non-text portions of this...
There's some stuff here if you don't know about it: http://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?swc=3 and here: http://www.biblewitness.org/technical/HP_Series-80/ ...
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