[Coco] HP64000 was Re: LIF util for OS-9?

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Sat Nov 5 15:46:00 EDT 2011


On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 10:44:57PM +1100, John Kent wrote:

> I worked at the HP Australian Telecoms Operation for a about 8 months 
> and they were using HP-UX boxes I think. I'm not sure if they were using 
> the HP64000 also. The two HP64000 machines we were using went into 
> retirement at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) University. 

Wow, those 64000's got everywhere!  

> The 8051 control board is probably not much use even if you had the 
> 64000 as you'd need the software to drive it, which I guess is why you 
> wanted to know about the CPU in it.

No, the control board isn't any use.  I don't have the rest of the
hardware, and anyway I'm not interested in the 8051.  But is one of
the prettiest computer boards I've ever seen.  HP made quality
hardware back in the day.

Willard
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