What is an HP98616?

[Joe R.]

  That sounds like the installation disks for HP BASIC 5.1. Nice Find! It
took me years of searching to get a set. It should run on just about any HP
9000 series 200 or 300 machine. (HP 9816, 9826, 9836, 9000/220, 9000/310,
9000/320, etc etc etc).

   Joe



At 12:58 AM 7/24/05 +0100, you wrote:
>I've just come across an HP box containing 5 3.5" floppies. They all have 
>original HP labels on them. 
>
>All the labels contain the following
>
>Hewlett-Packard
>9000 Series 200/300
>98616A Opt. 045
>BASIC 5.1
>
>The rest of ithe label depends on the disk : 
>
>System Disk
>Pat No 98616-10500 Rev. 5.1
>
>
>Drivers + Language Ext
>Part No 98616-10501 Rev. 5.1
>
>
>Utilities Disc
>Part No 98616-10502 Rev. 5.1
>
>HFS Utilities
>Part No 98616-10503 Rev. 5.1
>
>
>Manual Examples Disc
>Part No 98616-10504 Rev 5.1
>
>
>Anyone know what it is, and what machine it runs on?
>
>-tony
>
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