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From: myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Could someone tell me what a HP 9816 is?
Message-ID: <17330008@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Dec 89 19:24:45 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO
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So far we've had two conflicting statements as to the 9816's graphics
resolution; to set the record straight, it WAS 400 x 300 (although the
9817 was 512x390).  Graphics were one bit/pixel, not 2, although the alpha
system (the '16 had separate bit-mapped graphics and an 80x25 character-gen.
text "plane") did have provision for half-bright and blinking, at least in
later models.  (This is in contrast to the current Series 300 line, which has
used bit-mapped text from day one unless the old display board set from the
9920 was installed in the DIO-I slots.  Not sure if that was a supported
configuration, anyway.) The screen was a built-in 9"-diagonal monochrome CRT.
Supported keyboards were indeed the 98203A and 98203B, and the '16 canNOT 
use the current Series 300 (HP-HIL) keyboards.


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