koo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Kane Koo) (12/02/90)
Like the subject line says, some HP150 stuff...I know that this might just be a tall order, but any help would be appreciated... First, are there any decent text editors (or even word processors) available for this machine? I only have edlin, which is that free editor (u get what u pay for :)) that comes with DOS, and would rather use something else to write code...or anything! Second, I am also looking for some sort of terminal emulator which has the standard file-transfer protocols (i.e. Kermit, u/xmodem). I have heard of a VT-100 emulator, but I don't know much about it... FInally, what actually happened to the 150? Did it just die out? We have a couple at school for instrumentation purposes, but I haven't seen nor heard a thing about the 150... Your help would be appreciated. Thanks Kane -- ***************************************************************** Kane Koo (215) 573-5579 Internet: koo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu MEAMer and programmer UseNET: uunet!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!koo "Where do the children go?/Between the bright night and darkest day"
walter@hpsadle.HP.COM (Walter Coole) (12/06/90)
HP discontinued the 150 after the Vectra series essentially replaced
it. All the software that HP made available for the 150 is also
discontinued. I think Personalized Software still has some 150
hardware and software in their catalog (their phone # is
(515)472-6330).
I general, some MSDOS software does work directly on the 150, but
you may need to copy it onto different media first, since the IBM 3.5"
format is slightly different from the HP 150 3.5" format. Graphics,
color, use of specific hardware, or BIOS entry will cause it not to
work. There is a software emulator that allows programs that use BIOS
or ANSI.SYS to work.
The editor that I like to use on a 150 is PC-EDIT, a public-domain
editor that has key bindings similar to emacs. There are several
public-domain versions of kermit for the 150, most of which work
reasonably well, but if all you need is terminal emulation, the
terminal built-in to the AGIOS is a very good emulation of an HP2623
terminal.