Re: Found some stuff at the scrapyard

In a message dated 7/17/2016 9:45:20 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk writes: > The HPIL thinkjet version was also used with the hp portable and hp > portable pluslaptops. > we have some of them in the SMECC here... butback when I was CEO >

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> The HPIL thinkjet version was also used with the hp portable and hp > portable pluslaptops. > we have some of them in the SMECC here... butback when I was CEO > Computer Exchange inc we sold lost of these.. it was a small laptop > with applications in ROM but also had a

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> On Jul 17, 2016, at 11:03 PM, tony duell wrote: > > The ink is also corrosive. It can corrode the metal faceplate > on the cartridge, then drip onto the flexible PCB that connects > the cartridge to the rest of the printer and corrode that too. > If you ever have a

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> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 23:34:22 -0400 > From: devin davison > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts" > Subject: Found some stuff at the scrapyard > Message-ID: >

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Well, i will have to see if i can find any matching wire wrap cards to plug into the backpane and i can perhaps make something of it. I did not pay much for it, its no big liss if it is useless.

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.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts" <cct...@classiccmp.org> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 3:19 AM Subject: Re: Found some stuff at the scrapyard You got yourself the first consumer inkjet printer ever, from 1984: https://youtu.be/UiHNymmxKWs Original "A&qu

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om: "Curious Marc" <curiousma...@gmail.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts" <cct...@classiccmp.org> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 3:19 AM Subject: Re: Found some stuff at the scrapyard You got yourself the first consumer inkjet printer ever, from 1984: https

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> > As far as the disk drive goes, if it is a proprietary hard drive in there, > > that is a bummer. > > They are conventional drives. The 360 or 380 are nice machines that will also > run HP/UX As far as I am aware the HP9153B is the same as an HP9154B with a floppy drive fitted. The 9154B

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On 07/17/2016 10:17 AM, tony duell wrote: > Ethylene glycol is, of course, commonly found in car anti-freeze. > The printer ink is not rediculously toxic, but some animals find it > tastes sweet, they drink all they can find and it leads to kindney > failure. A couple of decades ago, there was

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> Very good information to know about the printer, thanks. I am assuming > that the new cartridges I get from staples should not have the toxic ink? > Will it still be corrosive? My guess is that the ink formulation has not changed. I think other things (maybe element power, timing, etc) would

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Original "A" version with HP-IB interface, useless for regular PCs of course. Complete with the "SomethingJet" marketing On Sun, 17 Jul 2016, tony duell wrote: It's mildly easier to use with a normal PC than the -B model (HPIL, There were also variant models with "Centronics" interface.

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which also ran on PCs on the 82324B Measurement Coprocessor http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=909 On 7/17/16 9:53 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > It's "Rocky Mountain BASIC" V6.2,

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It's "Rocky Mountain BASIC" V6.2, which you used to be able to get as floppy images from the Australian HP Museum. I think the standalone Pascal system still ran on these as well. On 7/17/16 9:47 AM, devin davison wrote: > The basic os that came installed on it looks pretty interesting too, >

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Yeah i saw that it was capable or running HP/UX and wanted to take a look at that. Sadly it did not come with a NIC, that would have been pretty useful for getting data into and out of the machine over the network, instead ill be limited to floppys. The basic os that came installed on it looks

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Memory sticks don't appear to be normal, though. I never bothered to dig into what's different about them, since they were available cheaply on eBay when i was working on the data recovery project. On 7/17/16 9:43 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > On 7/17/16 9:21 AM, devin davison wrote: > >> As far

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Very good information to know about the printer, thanks. I am assuming that the new cartridges I get from staples should not have the toxic ink? Will it still be corrosive? There was a second printer over there, missing the plastic cover and scratched up. I think i will pick it up too for parts.

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> Original "A" version with HP-IB interface, useless for regular > PCs of course. Complete with the "SomethingJet" marketing It's mildly easier to use with a normal PC than the -B model (HPIL, battery powered). Interestingly the -A version has an HPIB-HPIL interface feeding HPIL to the main

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You got yourself the first consumer inkjet printer ever, from 1984: https://youtu.be/UiHNymmxKWs Original "A" version with HP-IB interface, useless for regular PCs of course. Complete with the "SomethingJet" marketing name that has been with us since then. The key innovation of that printer was

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well come to think of it, i was at a HAM convention and i bought a bunch of wire wrap boards that were supposedly from CDC system. wire wrap boards with a card edge connector. I will have to see if they fit together. On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Brent Hilpert wrote: > On

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On 2016-Jul-16, at 8:34 PM, devin davison wrote: > as well as what im > assuming is a s100 backplane. > https://www.slashflash.info/~devin/images/scrapyard_lot/IMG_0148.JPG > https://www.slashflash.info/~devin/images/scrapyard_lot/IMG_0149.JPG Looks earlier than S100. I don't think I've ever