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>The old terminal emulation is a Reflection 7 from WRQ, emulating
>a HP 2627A or HP 2623A graphics terminal.
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>Is there another company offering terminal emulations for these
>HP graphics terminals? What are these terminals, anyway?
>Is there a compatibility to another terminal class?
>Are these terminal supported by HP at all?
>How old is this terminal type?
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I don't know of any products that emulate the HP 2623A or HP 2627A terminals
that will run under Windows NT.  I hate to say it, but if you have the
source code to the application and the application produces charts, you may
be better off downloading the data in tabular format (comma delimited) to a
PC spreadsheet, then writing some macro's for the PC spreadsheet to get it
to import the data and chart the data the way you want it.
 
The HP 2623A was a monochrome graphics terminal with optional internal
thermal printer. I believe it was manufactured in the early 1980's.  Early
copies of Reflection supported the HP 2623A somewhat restricted emulation
(some graphic "things" that were legal on a real HP 2623A caused Reflection
to crash).  There was also an HP 2623A emulation built into the Reflection
for the HP 150 product.  It had the same bugs in the HP 2623A emulation, but
crashed much more spectacularly, trashing CMOS so that you had to remove the
HP 150's battery for two minutes, then rebuild its configuration.  I don't
know if the problems with the graphics emulation were the reason, but I
believe that WRQ stopped including the HP 2623A emulation in the Reflection
product when WRQ came out with the Windows version of Reflection.
 
As for the HP 2627A, as I remember, it was a color graphic terminal.  It had
a very strange set of escape sequences for controlling forground and
background color.  I don't remember anyone coming out with an emulation of
it.  I may have some documentation of the HP 2623A escape sequences at the
office, but I'm sure the HP 2627A documentation was circular filed years ago.
 
It is funny you mentioned these terminals.  A couple of weeks ago a couple
of us old timers at work were trying to come up with a way our 927 could
produce color graphs at one in the morning and place them where the 927's
httpd server software would be able to display them to the Netscape crowd.
A very strange discussion of how to do it using an HP 2627A emulation
resulted.  Too bad there isn't an HP 2627A emulation.  It would have very
nicely solved our problem.
 
BTW, I'm looking for the specs on ".GIF" (or even ".JPG") files.  If anyone
knows where I can find them on the web, I'd appreciate hearing from you.
There is some interest in writing ".GIF" files from HP 3000 applications on
our 927 so that the files can be accessed through Netscape (see above
paragraph).
 
John
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John Korb                            email: [log in to unmask]
Innovative Software Solutions, Inc.
 
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