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From: onymouse@netcom.UUCP (John Debert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 150 info wanted
Message-ID: <12811@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 90 05:49:07 GMT
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From article <5656@hub.ucsb.edu>, by 6600raft@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Michael Wise):
> My roomate recently acquired an HP-150 and would like to know if a 
> a communications package such as Kermit is available for it.  He currently
> has no means for downloading software other than through the old sssd 3.5'
> drives that come with the machine.  Unfortunalely, the terminal emulator which
> came with the system doesn't seem even capable of screen capture, so even
> that won't work.
> 
> Any info. of where we could locate a copy of kermit or some other package
> (on a hp-disk) would be greatly appreciated.  I know that HP hasn't built
> these in a while, but I'm hoping that there still might be some old software
> floating around.  Thanks!
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There are several comm packages available, including Kermit. One other is
called MH-BBS which is a simple program to give the 150 xmodem, logging and
some programmable function key functions. All the others that I know of are
commercial and are most likely unavailable except second-hand. 
t(
A caveat regarding Kermit: There's a generic MSDOS version in circulation that
misbehaves on the 150. Your best bet is to get the HP-150 versio of the
ASM source from Columbia University.
 
There's lots of software around. One jut has to look a bit harder for it.

Many MSDOS programs also work, like PKZIP & PKFIND, ZOO, ARC (as well as 
PKARC) and some others that I can't recall offhand. PKZIP, BTW, works at least
twice as fast on the 150 as it does on an IBM PC or XT. MASM5.1, MSC, MS-Pascal
also run on the 150, if you want to do programming stuff.

Send me your postal address & I'll send you some disks with some goodies.

jd
              (pardon my noise - Pa Bell is miffed at me agin! )

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