bob@teda.UUCP (Bob Armstrong) (09/26/90)
I've always been interested in the "code names" that HP uses
for their projects. My co-workers and I have spent countless
breaks speculating on what some of these names might mean.
I though other people might share that interest, so I've included
a list of the names that I know. So far, these are confined to
calculators and "hand held" computers (i.e. Corvallis products).
This list is obviously incomplete, and the second part of this
posting is to ask that anyone who is willing send me corrections
and/or additions.
A special thanks goes to Jake Schwartz, who contributed a sizable
chunk of the list.
Bob Armstrong
{sun,decwrl,pyramid}!teda!bob
Computers
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Kangaroo 75C/D HP's first (and best!) handheld BASIC computer.
Titan 71B Replacement for the 75.
Calculators
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Kitty Hawk 97 Desktop version of the 67, with a printer.
Topcat 91 ???
Superstar 65 Scientific w/LED display, card reader and 100 steps.
Charlemange 48SX State of the art "Scientific Expandable Calculator"
Coconut 41C/CV Probably the most popular HP handheld ever made.
Halfnut 41CX? Redesigned version of the 41 (see note 3).
Classic 35 "original" non-programmable hand held slide rule.
Palladin 28C Scientific calculator - predecessor to the 28S.
Orlando 28S Advanced scientific.
Salad 27A "Do everything" Pioneer - math, statistics, finance.
Woodstock 21 Simple non-programmable scientific (replaces 35).
Tycoon 19B Top of the line business calculator (no suprise!).
Champion 18C Algebraic, non-programmable scientific.
Trader 17B Business calculator (simplified 19B).
Series Names
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Classic 35, 45, 55, 65, 80.
Woodstock 21, 25, 25C, ??.
Pioneer 10B, 14B, 17B, 20S, 21S, 22S, 27S, 32S, 42S "vertical".
Voyager Series 10 - 10C, 11C, 12C, 15C, 16C "horizontal".
Clamshell?? 18B, 19B, 28C, 28S, "folding".
Spice Series 30 - 31E, 32E, 33E, 37E, 38E (see note 5).
Processors and Chips
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Capricorn 8 bit CMOS processor used by the 75 and 85.
Saturn 4 bit CMOS processor used by the 71 (see note 2).
Clarke Processor for the 48SX (see note 4).
Lewis Processor for the the 19B, 28C and 28S (see note 4).
Bert Processor 10B, 20S, 21S (see note 4).
Nut 41C custom processor.
HP41 Accessories
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Phineas 82182A Time module.
Chesire 82153A Barcode wand.
Grapenuts 82160A HPIL interface.
Helios 82143A Thermal printer.
Wombat 82183A Extended I/O ROM.
Blinky 82242A Infrared adapter.
HPIL Peripherals
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Filbert 82161A Digital cassette drive.
Wallabee 82163A Video interface.
Sweetlips 7470 Plotter.
Other
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Flamberge 82211A 48SX Equation library card.
Redeye 82240A Infrared printer.
Cricket 01 HP's only watch...
Firefly -- Cancelled successor to the Cricket.
Eagle -- Calculator of some kind - never produced.
Zipper -- " " " " " "
Notes
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2) Children of the original Saturn chip serve as the processor for all
current HP calculators. These processors are often custom designed
for the calculator they are used in, but it is common to refer to them
all as "having the Saturn architecture."
3) The Halfnut was a redesign of the HP41 internals only - externally
(and functionally) these are identical to Coconuts. The Halfnut was
so called because the processor board was only 1/2 the size of the
original design.
4) The Bert processor runs at 640KHz and contains 10Kb ROM, 256 bytes
of RAM, and a display driver. The Lewis processor runs at 1Mhz and
contains 64Kb ROM. The Clarke processor runs at 2Mhz. All are
Saturn architecture machines.
5) The Series 30 machines were called Chive, Thyme, Sage, Parsley
and Ginger, but we're not sure which is which.phil@hpsmdca.HP.COM (Philip Walden) (09/27/90)
>Sweetlips 7470 Plotter.
Hotlips 7550 Plotter
Big Bertha 7580 HP's first large format plottersteve@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Steve Witten) (09/29/90)
Here's some that I know... Bridge A very early attempt at a next generation computer done at HP Labs...it was essentially a re-microprogrammed HP1000 E-series -- was rumored to have a lot of real exotic capability. Lightning HP1000 A600 processor (from a Mark Twain quote -- "Thunder gets all the credit but it's lightning that does all the work" -- or something like that) Phoenix HP1000 A700 processor (project kept being resurrected after cancellation so it "rose from ashes") Silver an HP1000 processor that never made it (I think it was a companion name to the version of RTE that was supposed to run on it called "Crystal" -- the new RTE was eventually cancelled as well in favor of "RTEsian") Magic HP1000 A900 processor Yellowstone HP1000 A400 processor Shoehorn The enclosure for a number of HP1000 A-series systems -- featured an integrated hard disc and 3.5" floppy Cooler The box for the HP1000 A400 (it uses a diagonal placement of the boards inside the box and has no fan) Rosebud HP's internal name for the standard that our physical packaging uses Millenium HP1000 A990 processor (just introduced) RTEsian RTE-A Amigo HP 300 (a big flop!) Chipmunk HP 9836A (first real workstation) Cookie Monster HP 4955A Line Protocol Analyzer Vision HP's CISC predecessor to PA-RISC that was eventually cancelled -- all the boxes had a "Vision Computer Family" number and also a code name. The only one I can remember is "Leopard" and I forget its VCF designation. HPE The new commercial OS for Vision (would later come into use as the codename for MPE-XL) Delphi | First stab at a relational data (was to be V introduced with Vision -- cancelled with Horizon Vision) | V Viking Spectrum PA-RISC ("scalable to a spectrum of price-performance") Focus The chip set that powered the HP9000s500 Dawn First HP9000s500 (used an operating system called "the SUN OS") Indigo HP 9000/3000 840/930 (the first Spectrum machine) Firefox HP 9000/3000 825/925 Silverfox HP 9000/3000 835/935 Cheetah HP 9000/3000 850/950 Panther HP 9000/3000 855/955(? -- it is the 9000/855 for sure) Comet | V Burgundy PA-RISC machine that never made it ("Burgundy II" did though.) BlackBird PA-RISC machine that never made it Bobcat HP 9000 s300 Topcat Catseye daVinci all bitmapped display hardware for HP9000s300-- Topcat used the floating point processor from the Focus chip-set to do the floating point math required by the hardware graphics pipeline Eagle HP 7937 disc drive Coyote HP 795x disc drives (Coyote II is the current series) Koala HP 3000 s30 Toothpick HP 3000 s33 Grizzly HP 3000 s44 Mighty Mouse HP 3000 s37 Quay NetDelivery/3000 Rasp Reliable Asynchronous Protocol Odie HP 3000 terminal driver for RASP Athena <- Bruno +--- Various MIT's of MPE III or IV (we like "Cheetah" Cheetah<- huh?) Ferrari MPE-XL Performance Architecture Rapid Transact/3000,Dictionary/3000,Report/3000 (all acquired from a company named "Rapid") Magic HP 150 Papillon HP 150 II Viceroy HP Vectra Nomad HP Portable Veejur HP Portable+ Pisces HP Integral PC Shanghai LaserJet II Foray LaserJet IIP Montage LaserJet 2000 SweetLips HP 7470A plotter (this was the first plotter using the gritwheel to grip the paper for one direction of motion -- HP patented the technology and it revolutionized plotters -- made them office equipment instead of instruments) Big Bertha HP 7580A plotter Behemoth Bertha HP 7585A plotter Squirt HP PaintJet Shark Read/write optical disc Jaws Auto-changer for "Shark" Linus Read/write streaming cartridge tape mechanism (used in lots of stuff) JukeBox Auto-changer for "Linus" SandBlaster An IC tester being developed by Santa Clara Division that got cancelled GoodWrench HP MaintenanceManagement/3000 (obvious!) Escher an internal PCB CAD system ChipBuster an internal VLSI cad system Zeus a massive 4GL/transaction processing system developed for internal use by the Corporate people who design our MIS systems -- this is HP3000sIII days...this system had a phenomenal amount of bells and whistles but was incredibly slow. Qantas HP Process Monitoring & Control/1000 (PMC/1000) Crayola HP Graphics Interface System/1000 (GIS/1000) Unicorn HP IMAGE/1000 II Robin HP Basic/1000C interpreter Athena HP Basic/1000C compiler Renoir HP Scanning Gallery Flatland HP VisiCalc/3000 (yes, and you can still buy it!) Martian HP Real-time Interface card for HP 9000s800 (actually this was an acronymn) Excalibur HP SoftBench (this product was preceded by a prototype environment that ran under X 10.4 that was done at HP Labs called "Ivo" -- pro- nounced "eee-voh" -- available inside HP only) From the lab I work in: ----------------------- Maverick HP Device Interface System ("Top Gun" was big at the time) Pegasus HP Real-Time Data Base Zootsuit HP Interactive Visual Interface (the one I work on -- it was the only word we could find with the letters "OO" for object-oriented and "UI" for "user-interface" in the same word) Sapphire HP Software Integration Sockets (they took a vote) Courtesy of (not necessarily in any order): Dan Kaplan, Frank Leong, John Frohlich, Daryl Gaumer, Kent Chao, Subhash Tandon, Michael Light, and myself =============================================================================== Steve Witten steve%hp-ptp@hplabs.HP.COM Precision Tools Program ...!hplabs!hp-ptp!steve Hewlett-Packard Co. steve@hp-ptp "...I'm no fool! Nosirree!..." -- J. Cricket
richard@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Richard Artz) (09/30/90)
It's fun to know the code-names for various HP products. But please, please, don't try to use these codenames when you are asking about HP products. It can lead to a great deal of confusion. For example, I know of two different products that have the same codename. I can envision some very humorous, but unproductive, responses to questions that only reference a codename. Thanks in advance Richard Artz / OSSD Learning Products / 303-229-2036 / richard@hpfcww.fc.hp.com Hewlett-Packard / MS11 / 3404 E. Harmony Road / Fort Collins, CO 80525-9599 This response does not represent the official position of, or statement by, the Hewlett-Packard Company. The above data is provided for informational purposes only. It is supplied without warranty of any kind.
steve-t@hpfcso.HP.COM (Steve Taylor) (10/01/90)
// steve@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Steve Witten) // writes: } Here's some that I know... } Amigo HP 300 (a big flop!) SAM HP 250 (what the HP 300 was supposed to be and a successful product) } Chipmunk HP 9836A (first real workstation) ^^^^^ wrong, the HP 9826A was Chipmunk Keeper HP 9825A (HPL language desktop computer) Qwert HP 9845A (BASIC desktop computer - dual micro's) Raven HP 9835 ( " " " - uniprocessor) Galleon HP 9845B (with 4 times the memory: 4 Qwerts make a Galleon) There were a couple of projects to go with Raven, Stark and Mad, but I don't remember what they were. Marmot HP 9816 Gator HP 9920 (there are other Gator's) Marbox HP 9817 Gatorbox HP 98700 Display Controller } Topcat used the floating point processor from } the Focus chip-set to do the floating point } math required by the hardware graphics pipeline Topcat doesn't have a graphics pipeline, only a block mover. Perhaps you mean Renaissance? ---------- Steve taylor NOT A STATEMENT, OFFICIAL OR OTHERWISE, OF THE HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY.
albert@hpuplca.HP.COM ( Albert Alcorn ) (10/01/90)
Catseye A mixed analog & digital IC tester DICE An early collection of data generators and data analyzers that was one of the first digital IC evaluation systems DICE+ An enhanced version of DICE with deeper memory and an external test head DICE 2 A family of digital IC testers with clock speeds of 50, 100, 200 and 400 MHz Prometheus An obsolete memory tester SandBlaster An IC tester being developed by Santa Clara Division that got cancelled Albert Alcorn, I guess I need this: NOT A STATEMENT, OFFICIAL OR OTHERWISE, OF THE HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY. ----------
jacka@aspen.IAG.HP.COM (Jack C. Armstrong) (10/02/90)
Steve Witten has compiled a wonderful list, but I'll bet he's too young to know about these additions: > HPE The new commercial OS for Vision (would later > come into use as the codename for MPE-XL) True, but did you know that the predecessor to MPE was: POS Primary Operating System > Koala HP 3000 s30 > Toothpick HP 3000 s33 > Grizzly HP 3000 s44 > Mighty Mouse HP 3000 s37 All true, and all descended from: Omega The first HP3000, which was begat by: Alpha A 32-bit, 4MB hardware stack (CISC) machine that was cancelled, had it's word length cut in two (and it's address space decimated!). I worked on the Alpha, and when it was 're-directed' to being a 16 bitter, we were so ticked, we decided to bump it's name from the first - to the last. Which almost became a self-fulfilling prophesy, if you know the rest of that bit of history. We're talking 1969 here, kids. Bruno +--- Various MIT's of MPE III or IV (we like "Cheetah" Cheetah<- huh?) Ferrari MPE-XL Performance Architecture Rapid Transact/3000,Dictionary/3000,Report/3000 (all acquired from a company named "Rapid") Magic HP 150 Papillon HP 150 II Viceroy HP Vectra Nomad HP Portable Veejur HP Portable+ Pisces HP Integral PC Shanghai LaserJet II Foray LaserJet IIP Montage LaserJet 2000 SweetLips HP 7470A plotter (this was the first plotter using the gritwheel to grip the paper for one direction of motion -- HP patented the technology and it revolutionized plotters -- made them office equipment instead of instruments) Big Bertha HP 7580A plotter Behemoth Bertha HP 7585A plotter Squirt HP PaintJet Shark Read/write optical disc Jaws Auto-changer for "Shark" Linus Read/write streaming cartridge tape mechanism (used in lots of stuff) JukeBox Auto-changer for "Linus" SandBlaster An IC tester being developed by Santa Clara Division that got cancelled GoodWrench HP MaintenanceManagement/3000 (obvious!) Escher an internal PCB CAD system ChipBuster an internal VLSI cad system Zeus a massive 4GL/transaction processing system developed for internal use by the Corporate people who design our MIS systems -- this is HP3000sIII days...this system had a phenomenal amount of bells and whistles but was incredibly slow. Qantas HP Process Monitoring & Control/1000 (PMC/1000) Crayola HP Graphics Interface System/1000 (GIS/1000) Unicorn HP IMAGE/1000 II Robin HP Basic/1000C interpreter Athena HP Basic/1000C compiler Renoir HP Scanning Gallery Flatland HP VisiCalc/3000 (yes, and you can still buy it!) Martian HP Real-time Interface card for HP 9000s800 (actually this was an acronymn) Excalibur HP SoftBench (this product was preceded by a prototype environment that ran under X 10.4 that was done at HP Labs called "Ivo" -- pro- nounced "eee-voh" -- available inside HP only) From the lab I work in: ----------------------- Maverick HP Device Interface System ("Top Gun" was big at the time) Pegasus HP Real-Time Data Base Zootsuit HP Interactive Visual Interface (the one I work on -- it was the only word we could find with the letters "OO" for object-oriented and "UI" for "user-interface" in the same word) Sapphire HP Software Integration Sockets (they took a vote) Courtesy of (not necessarily in any order): Dan Kaplan, Frank Leong, John Frohlich, Daryl Gaumer, Kent Chao, Subhash Tandon, Michael Light, and myself =============================================================================== Steve Witten steve%hp-ptp@hplabs.HP.COM Precision Tools Program ...!hplabs!hp-ptp!steve Hewlett-Packard Co. steve@hp-ptp "...I'm no fool! Nosirree!..." -- J. Cricket ----------
shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) (10/02/90)
> Amigo HP 300 (a big flop!)
^^^^^^
**NOT** to be confused with the (highly successful) HP9000 series 300
(actually, series 3xx - numbers have ranged from 310 to 375).
The HP 300 was an old (1978 or so) proprietary architecture that never made
it out the door. This was before the "300" designator was sucked up by the
Workstation folks for the followon to the 98xx/99xx series (which were
re-named the HP 9000 series 2xx) Unix/Basic/Pascal workstations.
----
Shankar Unni.dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low) (10/03/90)
> Amigo HP 300 (a big flop!) Original code name was Streaker but was changed at the suggestion of higher management. > Magic HP 150 > Papillon HP 150 II > Viceroy HP Vectra > Nomad HP Portable > Veejur HP Portable+ > Pisces HP Integral PC Carrera RS25 Jetta QS16S Tomcat 486 Gorbachip Burst mode memory controller chip on 486. Controls the KGB memory board. Bastille 286/12 Marco Polo 386/25 Danny Low "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You" Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley HP SPCD dlow%hpspcoi@hplabs.hp.com ...!hplabs!hpspcoi!dlow
todd@hpcuhd.HP.COM (Todd Poynor) (10/03/90)
Here's my collection of codenames for projects revolving around the HP-1000
and the Data Systems Division/Operation lab. Explanations are few, I'm afraid.
I need to update this list with the info Steve Witten posted earlier.
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* HP-1000 Internal project codenames
*
* [c] = cancelled project
Athena CBASIC
Bugs Millenium processor cache chip
Crystal ECL-based 1000, aka HP (High Performance) [c]
DS '83 NS (a.k.a. DS '84, DS '85, Millennium, OneNet/1000)
Earthling 1000-in-840-backplane [c]
Eightball 8 channel MUX Rev-D (many of the mid-80s peripherals were
named after sports equipment)
Elsie (the cow) LC (Low Cost = L-series) CPU
Fastball HP1000-in-a-PC [c]
FastRabbit '84 A900 follow-on investigation, old A1200 [c]
Guardian FST (a.k.a. READR/SAVER-II)
Hrair 1990 Extended Virtual Memory project. From the language of the
rabbits in "Watership Down" by Robert Adams, meaning "many"
(I hope I'm spelling this right).
KillerClyde Mail/1000 (named after a plastic rat, which was named after
an early version of the RMAIL program called M1KRC, which
a co-worker declared stood for "My #1 Killer Rat Clyde").
Lightning A600 processor
Magic A900 processor (to get a 1000 to go that fast had to be magic;
it pulled the rabbit out of the hat, and led to the rabbit
codenames which followed)
Millennium A990 processor (codename also used for NS)
MudShark Domain Name Service (BIND) investigation (the author was
listening to the Frank Zappa song "The Mud Shark" when he
started work on it).
Phoenix A700 processor (rose from the ashes of Silver)
R-cubed CDS ("Reentrant, Recursive, ROMable"), the Code and Data
Separation enhancement to the A-series architecture.
Robin BASIC interpreter
Roger Millennium processor CPU chip
Rtesian RTE-A
Silver TTL-based 1000, aka MR (Mid-Range) [c]
Sting Telnet
Thunder A600+ processor
Wideword 1979-vintage HP-1000 follow-on (capabilities-based) [c]
Vision 1980 follow-on for all HP computers [c]
Yellowstone A400 processor
tbc@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Tim Chambers) (10/03/90)
/ hp-lsd:comp.sys.hp / richard@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Richard Artz) / 11:08 pm Sep 29, 1990 / > ... For example, I know of two >different products that have the same codename. I work at a division suffering from this: The Pisces project in 1979 resulted in the HP64000 product line -- microprocessor development systems. "Pisces" is also the codename of the HP Integral PC (a UNIX machine), circa early 1980's. - Tim Chambers on the Mantis project (HP's advanced cross-debugger product line)
phil@hpsmdca.HP.COM (Philip Walden) (10/03/90)
> SweetLips HP 7470A plotter (this was the first plotter using > the gritwheel to grip the paper for one > direction of motion -- HP patented the > technology and it revolutionized plotters -- > made them office equipment instead of > instruments) > > Big Bertha HP 7580A plotter Actually the credit of "first gritwheel" goes to Big Bertha. The SweetLips came out afterwards.
dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low) (10/04/90)
> Carrera RS25
Targa RS25C - Lots of Porsche fans here.
Danny Low
"Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
HP SPCD dlow%hpspcoi@hplabs.hp.com ...!hplabs!hpspcoi!dlow alan@km4ba.UUCP (Alan Barrow) (10/06/90)
Some More... bobcat 9000/310 indigo 9000/840 linus 9144 Tape sparrow 9121D Floppy Shadow 2382 terminal? eagle 7937 disk drive Any more? Alan Barrow ..!gatech!kd4nc!km4ba!alan
alan@km4ba.UUCP (Alan Barrow) (10/06/90)
Two more: kangaroo 75C titan 71B Alan Barrow ..!gatech!kd4nc!km4ba!alan
onymouse@netcom.UUCP (John Debert) (10/10/90)
In article <1340146@hpclscu.HP.COM>, shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes: > > Amigo HP 300 (a big flop!) > ^^^^^^ > **NOT** to be confused with the (highly successful) HP9000 series 300 > (actually, series 3xx - numbers have ranged from 310 to 375). > So this is where the term "Amigo Protocol" came from? (the 300 may have been a flop but it gave us the IEEE-488 bus, no?) BTW, any idea as to where to get details about the Amigo protocol and CS80?
prouty@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Dave Prouty) (10/11/90)
>BTW, any idea as to where to get details about the Amigo protocol and CS80?
Well, CS/80 came from the Disc Memory Division controller group, circa
1979/80. Originally Command Set 80 for the 7933, etc.
Dave Prouty
prouty@hpdmd48.boi.hp.comrjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland) (10/11/90)
re: >>> Amigo HP 300 (a big flop!) >> **NOT** to be confused with the (highly successful) HP9000 series 300 >> (actually, series 3xx - numbers have ranged from 310 to 375). > So this is where the term "Amigo Protocol" came from? Yup. The original 1978-vintage HP300 was codenamed "AMIGO". Amigo was also the name of its operating system. There are still a few HP-IB peripherals that use Amigo command sets, and a great many peripherals that use some other command set on top of Amigo protocol (HP-unique secondary commands on top of IEEE-488). > (the 300 may have been > a flop but it gave us the IEEE-488 bus, no?) No, HP-IB pre-date the AMIGO project by at least five years, but the AMIGO was the first computer to use high-speed HP-IB as its primary I/O channel. AMIGO protocol was developed to ensure polite behaviour among the various devices (disks, printers, tapes, etc.) sharing the bus. > BTW, any idea as to where to get details about the Amigo protocol and CS80? Not anymore. The CS/80 and SS/80 manuals are out of print, and there never was a published AMIGO manual. The service manuals for some peripherals document their command sets. It's unfortunate, in a way, as HP's use of HP-IB for peripherals is conceptually identical to SCSI. Had we made high-speed bus chips available, boosted the clock rate and promoted CS/80 as a standard, the whole industry might have had SCSI-like functionality and performance years ago. Alas, HP-IB is an industry standard only for instruments, and HP is now rapidly converting systems and peripherals to SCSI. Incidentally, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of code names that have been used inside HP. A summary is posted monthly on an internal notes group. I have high confidence that this discussion in comp.sys.hp will be able to thrive for months or years to come, as people add one or two names at a time. Of course, we could spoil the fun by posting the whole list, but since many code names are derived from copyrighted and/or trademarked names owned by other enterprises, HP does not like to publicize them. Sorry. Regards, Hewlett-Packard Bob Niland Internet: rjn@hpfcrjn.FC.HP.COM 3404 East Harmony Road UUCP: [hplabs|hpfcse]!hpfcrjn!rjn Ft Collins CO 80525-9599 This response does not represent the official position of, or statement by, the Hewlett-Packard Company. The above data is provided for informational purposes only. It is supplied without warranty of any kind.