[sci.electronics] HP9845B computer w/ HPIB 4 sale

inuy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (01/12/91)

I have an HP9845B desktop calculator for sale.  This system has seen a lot of
use and has always been a good performer.  It has a detachable green CRT, a
built in thermal printer and two cartridge tape drives.  This system may be
of interest to some of you looking to do data acquisition.  This is system
was built for doing just that.  Hang an instrument off of one of the built in
HPIB interfaces and you are on the air.

It comes with a pair (2) of HP98034A HPIB interface ports, an HP98036A serial
interface, and an HP98035A real time clock interface.

In addition to the computer, I have an HP2631G line printer (HPIB) that goes
with it.  This is a 15" wide carrage printer that can be used on any system
with an HPIB interface.

If you like I will also throw in for free an HP9895A dual 8" floppy disk drive
unit and a bunch of disks.  This also has an HPIB interface.

The computer comes with HP's rockey mountain basic in ROM and it is easy to
have this system talking to HPIB instruments in minutes with the OUTPUT and
ENTER commands.

The computer comes up with a 'part of memory fault' message, but it still runs
all software I have for it with no problems.  It may just be doing this because
I have all of the interfaces unpluged.  Also, it has been years from the last
time anybody has used the internal printer.  Last time I knew it worked fine,
but it has not been used in a while.  The tape drives are in a similer state.
Last time I used them one of them ran fine and one of them had problems from
time to time.  We had stoped using the tape drives back when we got the disk
drives.

Anyway, you can have all three pieces and all the interfaces for $250 if you
can come and pick it up in Ithaca, N.Y.  You can have it for $275 plus shipping
if you want me to send it off to you.  It is big and heavy and I would much
prefer to have you pick it up.  As usual, trades and offers are welcome.  I am
looking for a working amiga A500, and a working 80386 based motherboard (an SX
would be fine) with at least a meg of ram on it, or a *legal* copy of a UNIX
that will run on an 80286.

--Matthew

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matthew@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us
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