getting started with your new HP 21xx

[J. David Bryan]

On 9 Jan 2007 at 12:47, Jay West wrote:

> Ahhh you aren't looking at the same spot I was. I had wandered in to this
> URL:
>  http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/21xx/diag/
> 
> Which is decidedly not the same thing :)

True, except that you had written:

 "http://bitsavers.vt100.net/hp/1000/Diagnostics/ is the main directory of
  diagnostic manuals. Each diagnostic has it's own manual."

Memory getting shorter, eh Jay?  ;-)


> > What revision is the latest (last) library?
>
> I think I had 2040, but you had supplied the one single upgraded
> diagnostic that made the collection effectively 2326? To answer this
> completely I need to go dig on my laptop :) 

At one time, I had all of the "Software Update Notices" for the 1000s, but 
of course I threw them away when we moved offices.  :-(  Still, from the 
DSD 4.0 Communicator (March 1986), the last update to the diagnostic 
library was at revision 2326 (mid-1983), and just the General Purpose 
Register diagnostic was updated from the 2040 set.  My March 1986 HP 1000 
price list has the 24396 diagnostic library in the "mature software" 
category, meaning that no further updates, barring major new bugs, were 
planned.

So, as far as I know, the Bitsavers manual set is the latest set, with the 
exception of the GPR diagnostic manual.

                                      -- Dave