HP Forum Archive 13

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HP Journal for the Integral PC Message #1 Posted by Vassilis Prevelakis on 16 Aug 2003, 7:19 p.m. The October 1985 issue of the HP Journal contains a lot of very interesting info on the Integral PC, a luggable Unix workstation. The issue is about 36 pages and covers the construction of the unit itself and the version of Unix it runs. You can either get a monster PDF file (19 Mbyte) http://www.series80.org/HP-Journal-IPC/HP-Journal-IPC.pdf or see the individual pages as jpg. http://www.series80.org/HP-Journal-IPC Note that clicking on an image will give you the full resolution bitmap. BTW You can get tons of info on the HP-IPC at http://www.coho.org/~pete/IPC/integral.html **vp

Re: HP Journal for the Integral PC Message #2 Posted by Les Bell [Sydney] on 16 Aug 2003, 10:14 p.m., in response to message #1 by Vassilis Prevelakis Thanks for that, Vassilis. HP loaned me an Integral for a few weeks when they were first released (I was editor of a computer mag, and they knew I was a long-time HP calc enthusiast, so . . .). It was my introduction to HP-UX, running out of ROM on a 68000. With X on the plasma display, it was uncannily similar to Windows 386 running on the Compaq Portable 386 I bought a few years later. But the Integral even had the printer built-in - quite an amazing unit. I must have written a review of it at the time, but it's long lost now. If I ever come across it, I'll make sure to post it. Best, --- Les [http://www.lesbell.com.au]

Re: HP Journal for the Integral PC Message #3 Posted by Les Bell [Sydney] on 17 Aug 2003, 12:26 a.m., in response to message #2 by Les Bell [Sydney] Actually, now that I'm reading through the articles, I'm reminded that the Integral didn't run X - it ran a HP-proprietary windowing system (HP Windows). Best, --- Les [http://www.lesbell.com.au]

Re: HP Journal for the Integral PC Message #4 Posted by Vassilis Prevelakis on 17 Aug 2003, 4:06 p.m., in response to message #2 by Les Bell [Sydney] Shame about the losing your article on the IPC. Having such articles presents a historical perspective For example, I found an article on the HP-85 from the early 80s. Since the magazine (BYTE) is still around (for some small value :-) I got permission to put it up on my site http://www.series80.org/ByteArticle To provide real context, ads from that era are also very important: E.g. on the same issue of BYTE there was an ad for a 26 Mega byte hard disk for $5000 (Yes, five THOUSAND 1980 US dollars). **vp

Re: HP Journal for the Integral PC Message #5 Posted by Victor Koechli on 17 Aug 2003, 6:01 p.m., in response to message #4 by Vassilis Prevelakis Notice the watch on the guy's left wrist in the first picture? They really took care of every detail, didn't they? Cheers, Victor

Re: HP Journal for the Integral PC Message #6 Posted by Raymond Del Tondo on 17 Aug 2003, 6:08 p.m., in response to message #5 by Victor Koechli Yes, and I think I saw this or a similar photo in one of HP's product folders. Regards, Raymond

Re: HP Journal for the Integral PC Message #7 Posted by Vassilis Prevelakis on 17 Aug 2003, 10:50 p.m., in response to message #6 by Raymond Del Tondo > Yes, and I think I saw this or a similar photo in one of HP's product folders. Not the same photo since that was taken by the BYTE photographer and the quality is not really up to the standards of promotional material. Please remember that in 1980 BYTE was a small-scale operation, closer to (say) Steve Ciarcia's INK, than to PC Magazine. Technical people in the 70s and 80s were absolutely in love with HP (and I include myself in that group), so its not surprising that the BYTE reviewer had an HP-01. Moreover, people thought digital watches were cool, back then :-) **vp

Thank you for posting this link! Message #8 Posted by Matt Kernal (US) on 18 Aug 2003, 1:35 p.m., in response to message #1 by Vassilis Prevelakis I've been looking for this issue of the HP Journal for quite some time (a couple years :-). I appreciate finally getting a chance to read the articles. Has this online edition been available for a while, or is it new? I don't see a direct link to it from the series80.org site (as you've posted it in your message), nor have I seen it turn up in various searches I've attempted through Google. In any case, I'm glad I can now read it. Thanks again! Matt

Re: Thank you for posting this link! Message #9 Posted by Vassilis Prevelakis on 18 Aug 2003, 10:57 p.m., in response to message #8 by Matt Kernal (US) I am glad that you liked it. I think the IPC is a very cute machine and I really view it as an HP-85 on steroids (too bad it doesn't look anywhere near as good as the HP-85). I put the HP Journal images on the series80.org site last week, but I had the scans for some time. When I completed the original scan, I did email Peter Johnson to let him know that I had scanned the material, since he has been asking for it on his web site (http://www.coho.org/~pete/IPC/integral.html), but he never replied. Scans always require some post processing and this is extremely labour intensive with the software I have (Corel Photopaint), so I forgot about these scans till early last week. Then I did the processing, uploaded the PDF file and the images and posted the note. The reason why there is no direct link from the top page is that the IPC is not really a part of the Series 80. I don't want to put up unrelated stuff on this site, so if I have stuff that do not fit, I try to send it to the admins of the appropriate websites (e.g. I have scanned a couple of HP-41 and HP-71 manuals, but I gave them to Dave since on the MoHPC site they will be of use to more people). **vp

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