John, I can assure you that they run well and behave well after you get them going. I have 3 operational units. Well at least the last time I had them up along with the computing keyboard. It was sort of a programmable calculating counter in a box. I can see why they were very amazing way back then. They also have a really good oven I have 8 of those. That oven and then the counter started me into time-nuttery about 1990. Because what on earth would have used this oven? They are heavy and suck power "green?" Not. But a nice display. One of them did indeed loose the display and I rebuilt the display with yellow orange LEDs and while I was at it added a serial rs232 function out. The system communicates with the display at about 1 Mb/s as I recall. I can also tell you that at least on one of the counters it ran me around for months hunting for the issue. Over the years I obtained the manuals with the secret interpolator schematics and programmers references etc. Regards Paul WB8TSL
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:38 PM, John Ackermann N8UR <[email protected]> wrote: > I was browsing through the HP Journal archives and came across the May, > 1969 issue, dedicated to the new 5360A Computing Counter -- "An Electronic > Counter for the 1970s!" > > I don't recall hearing much about these in time-nuts lore. I can guess > from the Journal articles that it was a beast to keep running and was very > expensive (500 ICs and a 10A 5V power supply). > > Is anyone here familiar with the story of this product? > > John > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
