another hp2100 wannabe

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Sun Mar 27 22:25:23 CST 2005


I wrote:
> Now that I think about it more, I'm fairly certain that it won't,
> because 2000E (and 2000F and 2000/Access) require the floating point
> microcode that is not available for the 2114/2115/2116.

Jay wrote:
> Aha, but there WAS floating point available for the 2116. A separate
> rackmount box. I have no clue if it had the same interface as the later FP
> options.

But I wrote "require the floating point *microcode*" (emphasis added).
The 2152A floating point processor would not work with any version
of TSB.

I *think* a 21MX F-series (with hardware floating point) could probably
be used as the system processor for 2000E, 2000F, or 2000/Access, but I
don't have proof.

I just cleaned up my 2000 TSB model comparison chart a bit, though it
may still have some errors.  It can be seen at:
    http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/hp/2000/models.html

Eric



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