HP 9133

[Frank McConnell]

Phil Matthews wrote:
> I have been looking at your cctalk bulletin board and it appears that
> Frank McConnell is someone who knows a lot about old HP computers. I
> have been tasked to replace the HP 9133 computer on some of our test
> equipment with new PC's. I was hoping to contact somebody who might know
> if this is possible and how to do it. So I was wondering if you knew how
> I could contact Frank McConnell or somebody who might know.

Appearances can be misleading.  I mostly wonder why it is that I
remember how to take apart a 262X terminal better than I remember what
I was working on last month.

And, my work with this stuff was in a data processing and office
automation environment, so what I remember is mostly terminals and
HP150s and some early Vectras and of course classic HP3000s.  There
are other folks who read cctalk who have more clues than I do about
the test-equipment side of HP, so posting to cctalk may get you more
help than I can give you.

One thing I am sure of, your first step is to take another look at
your system.  The 9133 is a disc drive; actually it is two of them,
hard and flexible.  It does have a microcontroller, but its firmware
is about being disc drives, not about computing.  Something else in
there is the computer, and you need to look again and find out what
that is.

-Frank McConnell