It's played regularly on PDP-11s at the Large Scale Systems Museum,
though as a matter of policy we do try do dispel the idea that computers
are only toys for playing games. For some types of people, most people
nowadays it seems, the only way to get them to pay attention to anything
is to present it as a toy or a game.
-Dave
On 10/31/2017 02:33 PM, Daun Yeagley daun@...
[hp_agilent_equipment] wrote:
I remember playing Adventure on the 9835 back in those days.
Daun
Daun E. Yeagley II, N8ASB
On 10/31/2017 2:10 PM, Dave Seiter d.seiter@...
[hp_agilent_equipment] wrote:
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It was adapted from the (also buggy) version of Adventure for the
Commodore PET/CBM series that I got from the local Pet Users Group.?
While I still have the floppys somewhere for the CBM 8050 disk drive
(I was tasked with transferring the PUG library from tape(!) and lower
density flopppys to the 8050 format), the HP85 version was probably
erased or tossed out about 1982.? I tossed the hard copies about '84.??
I sometimes wish I hadn't sold off all the CBM gear!?
-Dave
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Yes,
I¡¯d like to see that too..
A chance of a copy to play would be great..
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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@...
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[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
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[hp_agilent_equipment]"
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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@...
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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.
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My favorite scopes came in blue cases and the rest of my favorites
were HP.
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Jim
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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
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New Kensington, PA
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