What is an HP98616?

[Bernd Kopriva]

Hi,

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:00:19 -0400, Joe R. wrote:

:
>>So I should be able to boot my 9836 from these? Excellent!. I assume I 
>>should use an externaal 9122 drive connected to the 9836's built-in HPIB 
>>port 
>
>   I'm not sure if you'll be able to boot from an external drive or not. I
>don't mean to be a pessimist but I think you can only boot from a built-in
>drive. I just looked at the BASIC 5.1 Installation Manual and it doesn't
>say but when I look at the list of BIN driver files I see HP-IB, DISK ...

... i've done that. I had a 9122 connected to a HP9836 and i could boot from
the 9122 without any problems. If i remember correctly, you have to specify
a specific HP-IB address for the 9122 (i found that in one of the manuals,
unfortunately i don't have that at hand at the moment ...)

Ciao Bernd