HP Integral questions

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Wed Apr 14 15:01:05 CDT 2010


I've been reading the HP Integral service manual that Al kindly put on 
Bitsavers [1], It's a strange manual in that it includes schematics of 
the main logic boards. Why, I don't know, other comtemporary HP computer 
service manuals didn't. Not that I'm complaining...
 
Anyway, various thoughts occured to me as I remember some 
thignn about that machine
 
1) Did HP ever produce the CS/80, SS/80 or Amigo drive exerciser software 
to run on the Integral? It seems it would be the ideal machine for use as 
a drive tester since it's so easily portable. 
 
2) The later version of the OS ROM module has a space for an option ROM 
PCB. It seems like this would be trivial to recreate (schematics of the 
ROM Mmodule, inclding the pinouts of the option board connectors are 
certainly in 'my' Integral schematics). If enough people are interesd, 
it might be worth laying out a PCB...
 
3) The manual mentions that the Integral expansion bus was an 
implementation of some other HP standard bus, but only rows A and C. What 
other machine(s) used a similar bus? I can't think of any.

[1] I've also been reading the HP9000/200 Pascal 3.0 system 
docuementation. A wonderful mine of information, but oh so annoying to 
read on a screen...

-tony



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