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From: mikef@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Mike_Forman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Could someone tell me what a HP 9816 is?
Message-ID: <1320024@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Dec 89 23:13:22 GMT
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Organization: HP Pacific Technology Park - Sunnyvale, Ca.
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 know you wanted E-mail, but.....

 The 9816 is (was) a Series 200 system based upon the MC68000 CPU
 running at 8 MHz.  It includes either 128 or 256K RAM on the
 processor board (128K versions are very rare), and two DIO slots
 for added RAM or I/O cards.  An HP-IB and RS-232 port are built
 in.  The system will run HP BASIC or Pascal; it will not run 
 Unix (tm).  The 9817 was a box level extrapolation of the 9816
 to run Unix.

 There are two keyboards for the 9816, the 98203A or 98203B (I think).
 The first is a small keyboard with alpha numerics and a knob, while
 the other is a large keyboard with separate numeric keypad, etc.

 Built-in graphics (monochrome 390x512) and 24x80 alpha are supported.

 Hope this helps.

 Mike (I introduced the 9816) Forman
 HP Workstation Group Sunnvale

 Note: The preceeding is my personal view, not HP's.