Hello, I recently bought a set of 2100A cards, a backplane harness and a System Manual (1975) from a local seller. The plan is to revive the system even though it is missing the housing and PS (it was

Hi, I am trying to find a copy of this software. I got the ISO file from the HP Museum, but my burner says the file was currupt?? I had downloaded two other ISO from David and they worked fine. Thanks

I lowered the price. It probably works, as the system did when I scrapped it, oh, so many years ago. Jeff

Hi, I'm new to this group and I have been following the discussions about the 98228 clone, 9831A system ROM etc. Today I received a 9825A from a local seller, it was as described, "Fan runs but nothin

382 boots from install disks, formats hard drive, copy minimal OS to drive, reboots from hard drive Next it asks for Core OS CD, but the script fails cause it can’t mount the CD I can ctrl-C out of th

I downloaded the ROMs that Al Kossow provided and tried to understand how they were built. It was quite easy to understand the dirctory sturcture. The SE ROM contains 8 different ROMs with separate fi

I was talking to another HP collector today about various I/O cards for the 211X/1000 series of machines. He mentioned seeing an HP (internal?) bulletin describing jumper and component configurations

I also found these. Even lower profile: https://www.samtec.com/products/ico Arnie

Hi folks, Thought I'd throw a general question out there. How sensitive do you find your vintage HP gear to main voltage tolerances? I have two reasons for asking this: 1. During first power on proced

Does anyone know where to find the hood for the 30-pin connectors used on the HP 264X series terminals? The complete connector assembly kit is 5061-1340. The connectors themselves are easy enough to f

Hi Group, Working on a couple of ROM board projects and seeking advice. I'd prefer to have sockets for the ROMs but standard DIP sockets are too deep (high). Just not enough space (Z axis). The perfec

Does anyone have any knowledge they can share about the A-Series 12040A MUX Diagnostic ROM? There is a brief mention of it in the A-Series CE Handbook. I haven't found information about it in other ma

The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the VintHPcom@groups.io group. /HP1000/HP 1000 A-series/Support Notes/12040-96001 HP 12040D Multiplexer Firmware Upgrade Installation Proced

With all of this recent talk of 9885s...I have a few 9825s working now (I've been on a repair spree), I have a 9885M, a 98032A Option 085, cables, a 98828A, and a 98217A. What would be the path of lea

I have a few of these A990 boxes. They are complete with memory, internal disk & DAT, & any 1000 interface you could possibly need. They are the smaller 14-slot Micro boxes so a small footprint. I'm d

Sorry, the PDF was 90° turned. Here is it corrected: https://groups.io/g/VintHPcom/files/HP1000/HP%201000%20A-series/Support%20Notes Roland Von: VintHPcom@groups.io [mailto:VintHPcom@groups.io] Im Auf

I have cloned this board and works great. Trying to get an idea of interest. Probably in the range of $100. Please let me know so I can order parts. Mark

The recent discussions of an HP 9831A on this list have rekindled my interest in finding an image of the HP 9831A system ROM so that I can turn my 9825A into a 9831A. Is this a reasonable thing to try

I find this weird: In the Amigo docs it says that the unit should disable parallell poll upon receipt of the secondary and enable when then command has completed. Yet I see a HP85 with the MSUS ROM is

On 2/16/21 4:50 PM, Rik Bos wrote: > Just joking, about you having so much time to tinker with what good > friend called "a pile of obsolete iron" ;) Ahh. :) Well, there are several factors in play he