HP9100A wake-up in 2021

[PaoloB]

(01-03-2021 07:04 PM)Jlouis Wrote:  Congratulations for a 50 years machine still going strong! Are you the original buyer?

No, I found it as a faulty unit that was going to scrap in a research institute I worked with.
I took it as I liked its "vintage" appearance but without any knowledge of it being a masterpiece of the moon-race era.
The unit was indeed faulty but I managed to identify the fault in a pair of diodes in the power supply so I fixed it and learned its basic use. Much more still to be learned anyway, when I will find time...

Thanks for the video, quite interesting.

(01-03-2021 06:36 PM)lrdheat Wrote:  ...we had one of these with plotter in one of our high school math classrooms in ~1970\71. Dreamt of having this for my own! Never imagined what would become available in hand held fashion within my lifetime![/align]

What a privilege to have classes with such a modern computer at that time! Was it a public school?

Quote:I did not know much about this computer so the web-link is much appreciated.

Enjoy!