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From: seb022@tijc02.UUCP (Scott Bemis         )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: HP 150 microcomputer - can it be IBM compatible??
Message-ID: <706@tijc02.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 03:07:58 GMT
Organization: Texas Instr., Johnson City TN
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October 9, 1989 

    I am trying to determine if a Hewlett Packard 150
microcomputer is IBM compatible or can be "made" IBM compatible via a 
few tricks.    A non-profit organization (a local symphony) has received this
HP microcomputer via a donation.   The symphony manager is trying to get this
HP 150 microcomputer working to solve his problems.   
   The donor stated that this microcomputer was not IBM compatible (he had
bought another IBM compatible microcomputer and donated this HP microcomputer
to the local symphony).  I am trying to determine if the donor was 
correct, or was not aware of a few possible tricks to make this HP 
150 microcomputer IBM compatible. 
    If this HP 150 microcomputer can not be made "IBM compatible", could
you tell me where can I obtain software for this computer (I still get
catalogs for the Texas Instruments 99/4A home computer which "died" in 1984.
I am curious if such catalogs exist for this  HP 150 microcomputer).    I
would like to get this HP 150 microcomputer working for the local
symphony.  Otherwise, I will have to beg to get an IBM compatible for
the local symphony.  

Here are some more details on the Hewlett Packard microcomputer and it's 
operating system software.  
  
 
I received this information listed below from the computer maintenance
invoice.  It describes this computer in a slightly different way.  
 
          Hewlett Packard Touchscreen System product model 45650A,
          Hewlett Packard CPU product model 45611A, Serial number 2412A34926
	  with attached peripherals (HPIB Think Jet Printer model 2225A
          and two 9121D/S  3.5 inch diskette drives)

	
          Here is what is on the labels on the 3.5 inch operating 
          system diskettes.

          HP Series 100
          HP 150 Sys_master
          45621-13001       A.01.04       2402
          P.A.M.  (A.01.02)        HPBIOS (A.01.02)
          MSDOS (2.01)            MSDOS COMMANDS (2.10)
          FORMAT(A.01.06)          DEV CONFIG(A.01.00)
 
Please forward any replies, comments, suggestions to me.


Scott Bemis
Texas Instruments
P.O. Drawer 1255  M/S 3517
Johnson City, Tennessee, U.S.A.   37605-1255
Telephone:  (615) 461-2959
e-mail:  mcnc!rti!tijc02!seb022