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I'd love to see Adventure on an HP-85, buggy or not.

The Large Scale Systems Museum has a functional HP-2116B computer,
built in 1968.

-Dave

On 10/30/2017 10:13 PM, Dave Seiter d.seiter@...
[hp_agilent_equipment] wrote:
> I have a working HP85 around somewhere.? The father of a girlfriend got
> one of the first ones; we ported "Adventure" to it in late 1979, but it
> was buggy.
>
> -Dave
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* "Bob Bownes bownes@... [hp_agilent_equipment]"
> <hp_agilent_equipment@...>
> *To:* hp_agilent_equipment@...
> *Sent:* Monday, October 30, 2017 6:08 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [hp_agilent_equipment] Re: HP Archives lost to fire.
>
> ?
>
> HP was in the computer business long long before the Agilent name came
> along. I worked on an HP computer in the mid 70’s for example. The HP85
> was available by 1981.?
>
>
>
> On Oct 29, 2017, at 23:08, holtzman emptech@...
> <mailto:emptech@...> [hp_agilent_equipment]
> <hp_agilent_equipment@...
> <mailto:hp_agilent_equipment@...>> wrote:
>
>> ?
>> I believe the first product? was their wein bridge audio oscillator,
>> model 200a, b, or c.? They made their way to fame by doing the audio
>> soundtrack to Walt Disney's first feature length animation of the
>> movie Fantasia.? We all respected the equipment with the name
>> Hewlet-Packard, some called HP High Priced.? Then they ventured into
>> the computer arena, I think the reason they changed names, they didn't
>> want to take a chance and have the HP name fail if the computer thing
>> didn't work out, and take the whole company down, so I think that's
>> why they created the name Agilent.? The younger kids had never heard
>> of Hewlet Packard instruments, all they know HP for is their computer
>> stuff.
>> ?
>> My favorite scopes came in blue cases and the rest of my favorites
>> were HP.
>> ?
>> Jim
>> ?
>> ------ Original Message ------
>> From: "Stuart Landau stuartl73@... <mailto:stuartl73@...>
>> [hp_agilent_equipment]" <hp_agilent_equipment@...
>> <mailto:hp_agilent_equipment@...>>
>> To: hp_agilent_equipment@...
>> <mailto:hp_agilent_equipment@...>
>> Sent: 10/29/2017 7:58:23 PM
>> Subject: [hp_agilent_equipment] Re: HP Archives lost to fire.
>> ?
>>> ?
>>> I think that as the Hewlett Packard test equipment product line
>>> became Agilent and later Keysight, upper management had little
>>> interest in preserving the legacy of the first decades of the company
>>> and the contributions to the state of the art, by thousands of
>>> employees.
>>>
>>> It's so sad that the history of such a significant company is being
>>> lost. This was a company that changed the world.
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>> K6YAZ
>>> Los Angeles, California
>>> StuartL73@... <mailto:StuartL73@...>
>
>
>
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>

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA