[HN Gopher] HP 9825 Projects
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       HP 9825 Projects
        
       Author : parsecs
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2021-06-13 04:45 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (hp9825.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (hp9825.com)
        
       | puzzlingcaptcha wrote:
       | Incidentally, CuriousMarc (Jean-Marc Verdiell) is currently deep
       | into his 9825 repair-a-thon. An incredible window into the
       | technology of that time.
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-eN93L6yX8&list=PL-_93BVApb...
        
         | mnadkvlb wrote:
         | Came here to make this comment (even though expected it will be
         | already there :) ), the moment i read the post. One of the best
         | channels on youtube.
        
       | johnsonap wrote:
       | Love the disclaimer at the bottom, "and don't let nobody tell you
       | different!"
        
       | analog31 wrote:
       | I don't know the precise history, but the corporate decision to
       | work on these self contained computers was the reason why Steve
       | Wozniak left HP to found Apple Computer with Steve Jobs.
       | 
       | Still, paging through Byte Magazine and looking at all of the
       | things that I couldn't afford at the time, the HP computers
       | definitely seemed pretty cool to me, and I'm sure the quality of
       | HP calculators lent to the appeal.
        
       | neilv wrote:
       | This is a predecessor of the computer that I most crave, the
       | HP-87:
       | 
       | http://www.oldcomputers.net/hp85.html
       | 
       | (I wanted the HP-87 since before the Series 80 became the
       | standard issue computer in the great Brutalist&retro ambiance of
       | the video game Control. I would be sure to get a HP-87 without
       | any supernatural phenomena.)
        
         | mech422 wrote:
         | I think for me it would probably be a Commodore 'Super Pet'..
         | 
         | What was it? like 5 languages in ROM? And a real monitor - not
         | a wimpy lil 3" one like the kaypro's and osbornes had either!
         | Back in my vic-20/c64 days, that sounded like pure luxury :-D
        
         | otabdeveloper4 wrote:
         | _" Stretch it to the limit and you'll see what I mean - perhaps
         | by the year 1999 all the software ever written will run in less
         | than a minute."_
         | 
         | Ouch. Right in the feels.
        
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