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From: mikef@hpsad.HP.COM (Mike Ferrara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP9825b trivia contest
Message-ID: <770001@hpsad.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Oct 88 17:37:29 GMT
References: <14500001@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: HP Signal Analysis Div - Rohnert Park, CA
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Lets see ... an HP9825B ... do you fish? It can be used to keep your
boat from drifting away from that school of tasty Bass ...  well
actually its a computer based on a proprietary 16-bit processor. It is
programmed in HPL and is designed to control instruments via HPIB.
HPL you ask? HPL is a crude language (by today's standards) allowing
single letter variables, but, naturally, has a good I/O facility.
BTW ... if it doesn't have a silly brown card sticking in the back
with an HPIB cable on it, then it really IS a boat anchor. 

Mike Ferrara
HP Signal Analysis Division
Rohnert Park, CA
mikef@hpsadle.hp.com