I was not aware that the 2640 had a mouse. Gee, it' was a hi-tech terminal,
after all !!!!
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Objet : Re: [HP3000-L] old trivia - was What is MPE an acronym for?
When I was MIS Director for a local county government many years back, we
had a bunch of 2640's. I remember that they worked through all kinds of
conditions which was important since county offices were old buildings,
trailers, etc. One time a user complained that the terminal smelled funny
when she had it on for a while. When we popped the top, we found a huge
mouse nest in it! We just blew it out and all was fine.
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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Wirt Atmar
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 2:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] old trivia - was What is MPE an acronym for?
Chris asks:
> But do you remember the wonderful HP2640 terminals,
> which came with 1k byte of memory, and you could
> add a 4kb board for about $300? which would let you
> display a full screen! If you wanted fancy characters,
> you added another card for that, to get lower case and such
> (we bought lots of them, and added the options, so I don't quite
> no for sure what they would do with the minimum model.)
>
> They had a top speed of 2400bps, but needed the old enq-ack
> handshaking because they couldn't always keep up with 2400bps.
Yes, I do remember them. In fact we still have HP265x terminals in use here
now. See:
http://aics-research.com/history6.html
Wirt Atmar
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