smp
Veteran Member
Hi all,
I recently dug out my pristine HP-85. It still works just fine. I have it stored in the official HP luggage case they had at the time. I have a ROM Drawer and a few ROMs, a 16K Memory Module, and a small stack of pre-recorded tapes provided by HP. The tape drive attempts to work but does not seem to be actually moving the tape around. The printer is still working.
This is one of those early machines that was made specifically for people in businesses to put them to use doing whatever they wanted by programming and interfacing them to whatever they wished. It never had a big following of folks programming games for it, or anything like that for more general popular use.
So, is anyone here doing anything with an HP-85, 86 or 87? Does anyone know where to go to get the tape drive refurbished? Would I be better off trolling around on eBay and trying to get an HP-86B, or some HP-IB disk drives, or whatever? What would be a good setup to try to put together?
Oh, and has anyone ever seen the CP/M cartridge setup for one of these? Are they around any more?
Thanks,
smp
I recently dug out my pristine HP-85. It still works just fine. I have it stored in the official HP luggage case they had at the time. I have a ROM Drawer and a few ROMs, a 16K Memory Module, and a small stack of pre-recorded tapes provided by HP. The tape drive attempts to work but does not seem to be actually moving the tape around. The printer is still working.
This is one of those early machines that was made specifically for people in businesses to put them to use doing whatever they wanted by programming and interfacing them to whatever they wished. It never had a big following of folks programming games for it, or anything like that for more general popular use.
So, is anyone here doing anything with an HP-85, 86 or 87? Does anyone know where to go to get the tape drive refurbished? Would I be better off trolling around on eBay and trying to get an HP-86B, or some HP-IB disk drives, or whatever? What would be a good setup to try to put together?
Oh, and has anyone ever seen the CP/M cartridge setup for one of these? Are they around any more?
Thanks,
smp