Amigo computer, Amigo disk protocol (was Re: Questions - Universe/68, HP-9134A, VT420 composite video)

[J. David Bryan]

On 18 Apr 2005 at 15:51, Eric Smith wrote:

> It was designed for the Amigo computer, AKA HP-300, which is why it's
> called Amigo protocol. 

The HP 3000 Series 33 also used the Amigo protocol.


> The Computer History Museum recently got an Amigo, and Ken Sumrall,
> Stan Sieler, and I would like to run it someday.  Anybody got docs
> (beyond what's already on bitsavers) or software? 

I have the HP Journals that described the 300:

June 1979
   A Business Computer for the 1980s
   The Integrated Display System and Terminal Access Method
   Reducing the Cost of Program Development
   Managing Data: HP 300 Files and Data Bases
   An Easy-to-Use Report Generation Language
   HP 300 Business BASIC
   Innovative Package Design Enhances HP 300 Effectiveness

July 1979
   Cost-Effective Hardware for a Compact Integrated Business Computer
   A Computer Input/Output System Based on the HP Interface Bus
   A Small, Low-Cost 12-Megabyte Fixed Disc Drive
   An Innovative Programming and Operating Console
   AMIGO/300: A Friendly Operating System
   Configuring and Launching the AMIGO/300 System
   A Multiple-Output Switching Power Supply for Computer Applications

Don't know how much help they'd be, though.

                                      -- Dave