another hp2100 wannabe

[Bob Shannon]

The 2114 was my first vintage HP, and still has my favorite front
panel of any HP mini, the touch sensitive front panel really light my fire.

No floating point, no microcode of any form actually, just random logic.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org>
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Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: another hp2100 wannabe


> Eric wrote...
>> Oops, you're right.  My own web page has the correct info, but my
>> memory is terrible.
> My memory is worse, I had to go dig through manuals to know. My mental run 
> queue is only about 3 entries deep these days :)
>
>> 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.
> 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.
>
>> How much memory can a 2114 be equipped with?  That's another potential
>> problem with trying to use a 2114 for either 2000A or 2000E, or as a
>> system processor for the dual-processor versions.  The 2114 might also
>> be short on I/O slots, though it has enough to be an I/O processor
>> for 2000B and 2000C.
> Very good points. I'm not going to dig up the answers unless someone has a 
> 2114 they are trying to get running ;)
>
> Jay
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