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1. COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER APL PERFORMANCE IMPROVED 50 By Jean Danver GSD The performance data in your APL data sheet and Field Training Manual is obsolete Ever since announcement the APL Lab team has been working on the performance of the product and the results are nothing short of extraordinary 512K bytes of memory will now support 16 terminals of hardworking dedicated APL a better than 50 improve ment The performance results were so good that we failed to discover the minimum system that memory configuration which supports 4 terminals and need to redo the 256K byte tests with a different number of terminals APL 3000 now makes sense for current Series Il customers using less than 16 terminals Lowering our cost per terminal by more than 4000 can t help but get your sales The performance charts below give you the good news for large memory 3000 Series II s 4 C Response Time seconds E N 0 4 FORTRAN 6 BASIC 3 FORTRAN 1 COBOL 4 BASIC 6 APL 3 BASIC 12 APL 8 APL 6 APL 512K bytes 384K bytes 384K bytes 512K bytes 1 A script 1 Ascript 1 A script 2 A scripts 1 B script 1 bB script 1 B script 2 B scripts 2 C scripts 1 C script 1 C script 2 C scripts 2 D scripts 1 D script 1 D script 2 D scripts 1 E script 1 Escript 1 E script 2 E scripts 1 F script 1 F script 1 F script 2 F scripts Average Response2. CSG PURCHASE AGREEMENT CUSTOMERS by Ampy SorianoiCSG Below are additions to the current list of CSG purchase agreement customers we have on file oe AGREEMENT TYPE SALES REGION EFFECTIVE AGREEMENT CUSTOMER NAME DATE OEM COMBO VEU TERM NO Ns esr SSR MSR HPCL A Cybernetics Dec 8 1976 x CS 281 x Association of American Medical Colleges Dec 7 1976 x 279 x Automated Marine International Nov 23 1976 x 265 x Avco Everett Research Lab Nov 18 1976 x 264 x American Tolalisator Dec 10 1976 x 284 x Alexander Grant Nov 24 1976 x 286 x B C Systems Nov 29 1976 x 270 x B amp D Computer Services Inc Dec 1 1976 x 274 x Computer Timesharing Corp Nov 29 1976 x 268 x Cyberdata Nov 30 1976 x 273 x Edward Don amp Company Nov 30 1976 x 272 x Gen Tel amp Electronics Nov 1 1976 X MR 251 x N Graham Computer Systems Dec 16 1976 x 276 x i Henry Scalleti Nov 30 1976 x 271 x Leasecomp Management Corp Dec 14 1976 x 285 x x Logic Associates Sept 28 1976 x 230 Martin Marietta Corp Nov 24 1976 x 267 x Microcomputer Systems Dec 13 1976 x 283 x Milo Beauty amp Barber Supply Co Nov 23 1976 x 266 x Quazar Systems Ltd Dec 1 1976 x 275 x Silton Data Nov 29 1976 x 269 x FTN Sportscomm Inc Oct 28 1976 x 263 x f Trodyne Corp Dec 7 1976 X 278 x Union Oil Company of Calif Dec 8 1976 x 282 x MR MULTI RELEASE HEWLETT PACKARD COM
3. Figure 2 The Major Functions cf HP Measurement and Control Systems are Shown in This Block Diagram COMPANY PRIVATE U MH COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER Questions that have to be asked are questions such as What is to be measured Or monitored i How many points are to be measured What resolution is required How often must each point be sampled What is to be done with the data What controis are required Is signal conditioning required oN oo w P G N Will remoting the measurement control capability be more beneficial than local capability Plus many others But not only do we want to attack the above type questions we want to define instrumentation concepts You can not answer the overall questions without under standing the individual concepts What are TTL CMOS characteristics What is signal conditioning What has to be considered when distance becomes a factor in the mea surements noise grounding common mode voltage etc We want to put a truly chock full of meat instrumentation reference article together Something you can reference that will answer most of your measurement control questions Summary Needed Does an electron fill a hole And we re open to suggestions What would you like to see in an article like this We would like your inputs Twx or call Dave Hendrix or Dave Hannebrink H
4. Hewlett Packard had terminals in their booth at the show which were running stand alone and in a dial up basis to the HP 3000 The seminar schedule was arranged such that all attendees were able to observe HP s offerings at the booth m The prospect on the far right brought a check into the office the next day for his own terminal Working the booth are Larry Hartge second from left and Mark Turner second from right COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER YHP SHOWS A GREAT SUCCESS By Masaaki Tagami YHP D de M i areen SRR drik aw l e The eighth YHP show was held in Tokyo and Osaka last October 6th through 8th and 14th through 15th respectively All products were shown in this show We occupied the second largest booth in which we displayed the 9600 with HP IB a Distributed System a 9570 a 3000 terminals only 2645 2644 s and the 21MX K There were almost 1000 visitors at the show so it was very crowded We hope we will get many orders in FY 77 Everyone at YHP appreciates HP people at the factory who worked hard to get the equipments delivered to us on time for our show DE T HELIS Lol 512 k t vog GR Los Nat Reli my E ur Mali re 2640A Family CRT Terminal Takahashi San Discusses the 3000 With One Attendee Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 23 COMPANY PRIVATE COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER
5. HP Delivers on the E Series By Chuck Wain DSD During the HP 1000 New Product Tour F E s with OEM customers were encouraged to sell an evaluation unit to their customers John Malone Rolling Meadows Illinois did just that with his customer Management Systems Technology Inc MST placed an order for a 2113A to be evaluated for usage in MST s product lines including pharmacy and retail pharmacy order processing systems The order was placed 29 October DSD shipped on December 3 The total time from order to shipment was 36 days How s that for response DSD really delivers Good work John E Series Publicity By Dave Carver DSD We are looking for good press coverage on the E Series computer in addition to the ink the HP 1000 system received See the January 2 edition of Electronic News and Computerworld and the January February issues of the trade magazines for E Series articles We will respond to leads generated by these articles with the new E Series brochure The following press release was sent out December 27 Fast New Entry In Small Computer Sweepstakes A pair of new small computers in the Hewlett Packard 21MX line claim greater speed than computers up to twice their price The new premium performance 21MX E Series com puters execute programs 7096 to 10096 faster than HP s earlier 21MX M Series E Series models with comparable equipment are priced about 1296 higher than M Series In
6. 416 425 5161 Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 Eindhoven Nederlands 040 79 33 33 811 E Arques Ave Sunnyvale Ca 94086 USA 408 739 7700 COMPANY PRIVATE Tokyo 93 230 1521 COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER bys MR i ui id a ju un RUND Hal a a m ful Hii n E Vw lm iS If you have been reading this scandal packed rag for the last few issues you must have noticed that we have begun a series of articles meant to focus the HP 1000 in its three main application areas These first articles are only preliminary ones which will be followed up with more indepth material in subsequent newsletters _ Incidentally the ghost writer of the last issue referring to computation was Carlos Avila This issue we are addressing the world of instrumentation and the part the HP 1000 plays there Future articles on instrumenta tion will get specific about our capabilities qualifying customers and various customer applications Instrumentation Everything you wanted to know about the HP 1000 mea Stores control Production status monitoring and control Manufacturing and engineering data control Facilities monitoring Applications usually involving sensor based stimulus response or data entry functions Typi Factory data processing involving the collec cally related to a physical process such as i t 3 Computer Ai Manufacturing ton and reporting of
7. ATE program managers and all major prime contractors were in attendance To take advantage of this unique opportunity AMD shipped two 9571A Digital Test Stations a 9640A controller a 2607A Line Printer and three CRT terminals to the show With able assistance from Roger Jones FE Bob Funk SE Barbara Grogan and Bonnie Smith from our SSR Richardson office the multi station DTS 70 was easily the star of the show Roger and Bob set up the equipment and got it up and running in a very short time and with the final released TEST MONITOR software Barbara and Bonnie were able to test and fault isolate boards via guided probing in very short order The multi station DTS 70 was de monstrated by having the girls test boards at the two 9571A Test Stations while a third program preparation station was running a TESTAID III simulation program ALL CONCUR RENTLY on one 9640A Controller Even with all three events happening concurrently several visitors stated that our FASTRACE guided probe fault isolation was running consid erably faster than the GR 1792 system which was also exhibited at the convention Hewlett Packard was well represented at the convention Paul Accampo AMD Marketing presented a paper on the technology and economics of ATPG Automatic Test Pro gram Generation and Steve Joseph AMD Lab presented a paper on intelligent system switching previewing our new microprocessor controlled switching capabilities soon to be a
8. data relevant to manufac turing and production Includes Manufacturin LN J g and p 9 5 M X Information Contro Applications r i Epi NY pw p Figure 1 Typical HP 1000 Applications Project control Engineering records data management Computation heavy applications Usually in volve R amp D design development testing documentation and scheduling tasks surement and control capabilities but were too confused to j ro understand N Bod i W Wi INN uv VV dn Y 8 Computation instrumentation Operations Management m Scientific and engineering computation m Machine monitoring and contro m Material re ts D MRP Product development testing a Product Q C testing Saat Q a E m Simulation and modeling m Work station reporting m Sales forecasting m Computer aided design m Continuous and batch process control m Customer order processing N m Engineering data acquisition and experiment m Shop floor monitoring and control m Master scheduling H control a Automated materials handling m Purchase order and work order control Statistical analysis m Factory data collection C a 2 Instrumentation Computation strumentation capabilities the market places we shoot for Operations Management By Dave HenarixiDSD Where does the HP 1000 fit with respect to instrumentation Where does the HP 1000 fit in measurement and control Where are we going Questions we all want a
9. long standing 7 track mag tape shoo of the benefits of the HP 1000 DSD can now provide through our specials group 12971A support on the 1000 The standard 12971A diagnostic includes the mag tape SIO driver and requires output to an SIO supported interface heretofore making 1000 compatibility a problem on two fronts the diagnostic is incompatible with the standard 1000 diagnostic configurator and the 2645A block mode inter face 12966A does not have an SIO driver As a special we are prepared to supply a revised 12971A diagnostic on mini cartridge loadable from the 2645A sys tem console However an auxiliary terminal 2640A 2762A 2762B or 2752A and the appropriate interface 12880A or 12531D must be included to allow proper output of the diagnostic on 2 SIO supported devices From our experi ence one of these subsystems is included with most 1000 orders anyway making the additional cost a bit more bearable Consult DSD sales development for further details concerning this special Vendor Format t Parts that HP has used with PTGEN tapes are Intel m bs as defined in Intels 1976 pROM ata cala og Part 21MX 21MX E Series MMI TWX ASCII BHLF format as defined in MMI s Monolithic 1973 through 1976 pROM device data sheets 4K Signetics Signetics Memories 828115 828141 Inc 1K MMI MMI Signetics Accepts both the Intel and MMI formats 6301 6301 iven above 1K Harris Harris 9 1024 5VB 1024 5VB HP This format is recognized by the
10. such as APICS Computer Caravan etc 5 CS Newsletter Communicating new applications new literature com petitive information system performance etc will be done via the CS newsletter We are helping you sell more 3070A s Moore Business Forms is Helping You Sell More OMR s By Bernard GuidoniBoise Moore Business Forms is one of the most important form businesses in the U S and Canada but is also represented in Europe Very good business relationships have been established between HP and Moore so that Moore Business Forms has a very good understanding and knowledge of the HP OMR s and has provided an excellent service in design ing a continuous stock of forms for our customers Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 18 Moore Business Forms has provided me with the complete listing of their offices in the U S and Canada including phone numbers and the appropriate person to contact Therefore if one of your customers is interested in designing his own cards call me or drop me a telex and will supply you with the local contact We want to help you sell OMR s and are making OMR applications as easy as possible Direct Mail for 7260A s By Bernard GuidoniBoise John McLellan High Point N C has initiated a direct mail campaign for the 7260A optical mark readers in the State of North Carolina John has prepared a package of literature which focuses on the mini RJE station aspect of the 7260A so that additional bus
11. the 3070A as a Light Manufacturing Factory Floor Data Collect Device B Guidon Boise 18 CE Corner Who Supports the 3070A P Price Boise 19 CSRC Ready to Repair 3070A s for U S and Canada Lumu ahay nis YQ P Price Boise 19 Product News Telex Interface Resurrected as Special G Kloepper HPG 19 GSD News Product News APL Performance Improved 50 J Danver GSD 20 IMAGE Now Callable from BASIC J Page GSD 20 Sales Aids APL Demonstrations J Danver GSD 21 European Isolation Transformers F Joern BBN 22 Order Processing Does Your Order Require a Coordinated Shipment S Bradley GSD 22 Division News HP Boasts Two Speakers at CIPS Seminar L Hartge GSD 22 CSG News YHP Shows A Great Success M Tagami YHP 23 CSG Purchase Agreement CUSIOMENS coco as toe Das vil es A Soriano CSG 24 COMPANY PRIVATE HP Computer Museum www hpmuseum net For research and education purposes only COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER Multi Station DTS 70 S The Star of AUTOTESTCON 76 By George Low AMD Over 400 ATE ers jammed the Inn of the Six Flags at Arlington Texas on November 10 12 for AUTOTESTCON 76 This IEEE sponsored convention the only one of its kind is devoted entirely to the ATE community Virtually all major military
12. 00 System Perspective instrument Comput Corps Mgmt D Hendrix DSD 8 HP 1000 What s Available D Hannebrink DSD 9 HP 1000 Qual Instrument Sale D Hannebrink DSD 9 Getting Down to the Nitty Gritty D Hendrix DSD 9 Sales Aids HP 1000 Installation 00 F Jackson DSD 10 Notice of Return Policy for DSD B Boeck DSD 10 Firesale on 1009A System Work Table J Schoendorf DSD 10 21MX E Series Literature Hot Off he Press ii neos reb ee V L Schefter DSD 11 RJE 1000 Update J Eckford DSD 11 Training News Satisfying Your Customers Needs P McGillicuddy DSD 12 DSD Training Materials J Seligson DSD 12 Order Processing HP 1000 Order Problems B Johnson DSD 12 DTD News Division News What Reliability Really Means R Ferguson DTD 13 Product News Data Comm Opts Revealed E Grandjean DTD 14 Sales Aids APL Demo Tape E Grandjean DTD 1 4j Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 HPG News Sales Aids More Sales Aids from Grenoble M Bricquet HPG 17 What are We Doing to Help You Sell Data Collection Sys in U S and Canada B Guidon Boise 17 Moore Business Forms is Helping You Sell More OMR s B Guidon Boise 18 Direct Mail for 7260A s B Guidon Boise 18 Why
13. 000 was reduced from 6 000 U S List to 2500 U S List All the better to beat the competition with Sell IMAGE 1000 It Sells Systems 91700A Configuration Guide Error By Dave Bunch OOPS 91700A as a line item for HP 1000 is 3500 as on the Corporate Price List instead of 3250 as in the 1000 Con figuration Guide Please change your copy COMPAN PRIVATE 7 COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER 1K and 4K PROM Generation By Frank Jackson iDSD Please be aware that the 12909 PROM WRITER is neither supported by 21MX E Series nor by RTE Il or Ill The follow ing matrix shows compatibility of the PROM WRITER with the various CPU s and operating systems COMPATIBILITY MATRIX PROM WRITER Y YES N NO 12909A Y 12909B Y Because the 12909 PROM WRITER Kit is only capable of blowing 1K chips it is necessary that your customers have another means of getting 4K chips or 1K fused into ROMs have talked with the chip vendors and they assure me that their local offices or local representatives usually have the capability for fusing chips purchased from them It is neces sary that your customer supply a paper tape in the appropri ate format as shown Any of the formats can be produced by the PROM TAPE GENERATOR Program PTGEN which is part of the 92061A RTE Microprogramming package HP 1000 and 7 Track MTS Available As The Odd Couple By Dave Hannebrink DSD You need not further deprive that
14. 01A or 92060A software now RTE II and Ii upgrades for other HP operating systems can be obtained by consulting the factory Satisfying Your Customers Needs By Paul McGillicuddy DSD During the last several months training has been restructed Your customers software training requirements can be satis fied through DSD while their hardware training requirements can be satisfied through CSD Here is the organization cut out and save Training Manager Registrar Courses CSD 408 735 1550 Tom Lowe EXT 2667 Laura Kohl EXT 2670 DSD 408 257 700 Paul McGillicuddy EXT 2370 Judy Barrick EXT 2952 e 21MX Oper amp Maint 10 days e RTE I III 10 days e 2100 Oper amp Maint 5 days e Dist Syst 5 days e 7900 Oper amp Maint 5 days e IMAGE 5 days e 7905 Oper amp Maint 5 days e Assembler 5 days e MProgramming 5 days e HP IB Basics 3 days e HP IB Programming 2 days e BASIC 3 days There are data sheets on all the above courses that discuss the content pre requisites etc There are also schedules showing the frequency cost and dates of all the above courses Both can be ordered from Corp Literature Bldg 9B am looking forward to working with you in the future If training can help you let us know GOOD SELLING DSD Training Materials By Jane Seligson DSD Many people have written asking how and where they can get DSD Training Materials and what items we use in our classes
15. ATIONS OR TRANSMIT MESSAGES OR BOTH LOCAL UR PEMGTE CAPABILITY S OPEPETOP PP e es DISPLAY STATIGh FEAT SIRES RIOR ALLONS EASY FIELD UPORADES AND BERALFS SOPHISTICATED INTELLEGENOE FOR E DPERATIDN UF TD TWELVE EILOBYTES LISFLA PEMURY DME KEYSTROKE VERIFIES FPUPER TERMI HAL OPERATION Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 16 COMPANY PRIVATE COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER More Sales Aids from Grenoble By Marc Henry Bricquet HPG Building on your success with the HP 3070A we have de veloped a comprehensive new demo program for use with the 2000 System Completely written in friendly BASIC the program manges up to 14 terminals connected on an HPG serial link The demo program is designed to illustrate the collection of manufacturing labour information who is doing what for how long It will be ideal to show to your key manufacturing accounts Send me or Bernard Guidon in Boise a blank mini cartridge and we will return you a copy of the program and manual which includes explanations of the program and layout of the keyboard definition label THE HP 3070 HELPS SELL 2000 SYSTEMS ee OC OOO CO OO Oo OOO OO COC COG What Are We Doing To Help You Sell Data Collection Systems In U S And Canada By Bernard Guidon Boise The 3070A and 3071A terminals offer new opportunities for selling HP equipment They are opening a new segment to the computer market to H
16. ER REINHARDT HELMUT FRANKFURT HPSA EMS NEWSLETT COMPUTER SYST HEWLETT by PACKARD i Vol 2 No 5 Jan 10 1977 SES VE TER ERE the STANDBY PRESET x E SERIES COMPUTER 1M KARD HALT IBL TEST COMPANY PRIVAT 21MX E Series Now Available For Stand Alone Sale Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 i 1 i i i i i i 1 i i COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER DSD Unveils 21MX E Series Page 4 APL Performance Improved 50 Page 20 IMAGE 3000 Now Callable From BASIC 3000 Page 20 AMD News Product News Multi Station DTS 70 s Autotestcon 76 G Low AMD 3 9611R Price Increase J McCabe AMD 3 DSD News Product News 21MX E Series Computer O Mahoney DSD 4 E Series Compatibility Update D Carver DSD 4 DSD Unveils 21MX E Series Computers D Carver DSD 4 HP Delivers on the E Series C Wain DSD 5 E Series Publicity D Carver DSD 5 DSD Configuration Literature D Hendrix DSD 6 IMAGE 1000 Giveaway Ended January 1 F Gibbons DSD 6 91700A Configuration Guide Error D Bunch DSD 6 1K and 4K Prom Generation F Jackson DSD 7 HP 1000 and 7 Track MTS Available As The Odd Couple D Hannebrink DSD 7 HP 10
17. HP national accounts will be coordinated with Jerry Klemushin CSG who will assist us in getting the most out of each presentation 2 Large Manufacturers Large manufacturing companies will be reached in cooperation with DSD The 3070A will be a part of the presentation of the HP 1000 to such large companies Offering the 3070A with the HP 1000 will strengthen the HP total solution for manufacturing 3 OEM Often small and medium size manufacturing will not possess the software expertise required to manufacture the information system software necessary to operate HP systems and 3070 s Therefore our tactics will be to identify and qualify OEM software system houses This should give you a list of available software and system houses that you can then recommend to your customers Additionally tnese iden tified software and systems houses will act as extra HP Sales Representatives by recommending 3070 s to their customers and will therefore be among our best customers OEM seminars will be held in sales offices in cooperation with DSD to present the HP 1000 and 3070A to OEM software and systems houses Direct and detailed presentations will be arranged for manufacturing types of OEM s to ensure that they have a technical understanding of our products 4 Shows Computer Caravan NPT s The 3070A will be included in the promotional group plan to reach the manufacturing market Plans are being made to promote the 3070A at shows
18. HP pROM Writer part no 12909 16005 PUER is ey only Listed below are the contacts for the various vendors which in DOS and BCS environments your customer may contact if he is having difficulty in finding a source for generating PROM chips VENDOR U S A CANADA EUROPE s AMERICA JAPAN Harris Harris Corp Munro Electronic Harris Semiconductor Inc Same as U S A Harris Semiconductor P O Box 883 Components Ltd 53 BD De Waterlou BTE 5 Time Life Bldg Melbourne 2684 Slough St B1000 Brussels 2 3 6 Otemachi FL 32901 Mississauga 02 428 3602 Chiyodaku Tokyo 305 724 7430 Ontario L4T 1G3 03 279 1691 416 676 1042 Intel Intel Corp Same as U S A Intel International Same as U S A Intel Japan Corp 3065 Bowers Ave Rue Du Moulin A Papier Flower Hill Shimanchi E Bldg Santa Clara Ca 95051 51 Boite 1 1 23 9 Shimanchi 408 246 7501 B 1160 Brussels Belguim Setagaya Ku 02 660 3010 Tokyo 154 03 426 9261 MMI Monolithic Memories Future Electronics Monolithic Memories Inc Same as U S A MMI Japan K K 1165 E Arques Ave Montreal c o Memory Devices Ltd Parkside Flat Bldg Sunnyvale Ca 94806 Quebec Central Ave 4 2 2 Sendagaya 408 739 3535 514 735 5775 East Moseley Shibuya Ku Tokyo 151 Kent KT8 OSN 03 403 9061 England 851 929962 Signetics Signetics Philips Electron Devices Philips Nederland B V Signetics Int l Corp Signetics Japan Ltd 811 E Arques Ave Sunnyvale Ca 94086 408 739 7700 Toronto
19. Here s the answer Data Sheets describing our courses are available from Corporate Literature Bldg 9B c o Dave Asplund They are free Europe can order the same data sheets from stock held in Amsterdam c o Fred Plantinga The part numbers are as follows DATA SHEET NUMBERS 5952 9913 RTE I III Course Data Sheet DSD 5952 9915 DOS II Oper DSD 5952 9918 21MX Microprogramming DSD Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 12 5952 9919 Distributed Systems DSD 5952 9920 2100 Series Assembler DSD 5952 9921 Measurement amp Control Subsystem DSD 5952 9922 2100 IMAGE Data Base Mgmt DSD 5952 9923 Terminal Control System B DSD 5952 9924 Multitermina Real Time Basic DSD 5952 9944 IMAGE DBMS DSD 5952 9945 HP IB Mini Computer Bus Basic DSD 5952 9946 HP IB Programming Under RTE DSD Complete class material lists are available by writing or TWX me All usual DSD publications and training material except Instructors Aids can be obtained by ordering from Division 2200 Training materials are designated by a 22999 prefix and can be ordered from me directly on an I O only if no other part numbers are mixed in Instructor materia is not available to customers If someone wants an Instructor Guide of tape they must contact me personally Orders for those items on an I O will not be accepted As of November 1st the content and production of all DSD training materials was assumed by the software group George Taylor and or hardware group Orrin Ma
20. P 1000 installation By Frank Jackson DSD Please be aware that the Installation Policy for HP 1000 is qifferent to the HP 9640A The matrix below shows the recommended and allowable charges to Data Systems Division Software Site Hardware Installation Product Options Prep Install Assistance 2170A All x 2171A All x 2172A All X 9640A X X A00 thru A02 X A04 thru A26 X X P11 thru UO6 U25 thru U53 X X Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 Consult the Data Systems Installation Matrix for more de tailed information Notice of Return Policy for DSD Effective January 1977 By Bonnie Boeck DSD Per the corporate marketing policy of October 15 1976 the following will apply regarding Notice of Returns for DSD Material being returned to the factory must have prior ap proval from factory before returning Products for approval must be returned within 30 days after initial shipment All approved returns must reference customer name sales order number and reason for return on packing slip If material returned is 500 or more 5 restocking will apply or if 500 or less a flat 25 00 charge wil apply Refurbish ing charges can apply to either of the above Any products returned after 30 day grace period will not be accepted for return All products returned for any form of credit will be inspected for possible electrical or mechanical problems The products must meet HP quality standards both electri cally and mec
21. P systems especially those used in manufacturing and tests and measurements We are launching an aggressive plan to help you sell 3070A s and 3071A s in these markets and here are the guidelines of this campaign A detailed product sales plan has been mailed to each DM in the U S and Canada and you may refer to it if you need further information Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 17 Our primary target market is the light manufacturing envi ronment where the 3070A will fit for shop floor data collection control of HP IB test stations and general purpose data collection Our approach will be directed as follows 1 The end user who values the feature of one supplier total systems distributed data collection and appreciates the key contributions of the 3070A 2 The OEM software systems houses and especially those specializing in manufacturing applications Tactical approaches to manufacturers will be made at different levels according to the location of the company and to the existing depth of HP penetration COMPANY PRIVATE PE PE EEA O VE a aa ann aii RA sio erecta et frr ia COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER 1 HP National Accounts Largest and well known manufacturing companies will be one of our primary targets We will be calling on each company to arrange a presentation These presenta tions will be prepared by the factory Boise Action on the
22. PUTER SYSTEMS GROUP 11000 Wolfe Road Cupertino California 95014 USA Bob Lindsay CS Group Editor John Tonkin DSD Art Editor DSD Graphics Photo Typesetting MI Address content inquiries to MARILYN WEITZEL AMD Editor LARRY AMSDEN AMD Technical Editor LILLIAN BLANKINSHIP BOISE Editor JOHN WHITESELL BOISE Technical Editor KATHY ADAMS DMD Editor BOB HOKE DMD Technical Editor DELI BARTLETT DSD Editor JOE SCHOENDORF DSD Technical Editor SONI HOGAN DTD Editor CARL FLOCK DTD Technical Editor CAROL BUDKOWSKI GSD Editor DON BARKLEY GSD Technical Editor CATHERIN CLAY HPG Editor GUNTER KLOEPPER HPG Technical Editor IPANY PRIVATE Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 24 COM
23. abase and manipu late it in ways too complex for QUERY 3000 In business applications where DP managers are always faced with requests for special reports the interactiveness of BASIC 3000 now lets them get those reports out quickly and easily How It Works The problem in the past was that when BASIC 3000 made a call to an external routine like those in IMAGE it did so in a way different to that which IMAGE 3000 expected This has been solved by adding a set of interface routines which translate the BASIC 3000 call into another call to IMAGE 3000 itself For every IMAGE 3000 intrinsic there is a corre sponding interface routine with the same name but with an X in front of it For example to call DBOPEN a BASIC 3000 user would call XCBOPEN Those extra routines will become part of the supported IMAGE 3000 product The IMAGE 3000 manual is being updated to specify this new feature complete with examples on how it can be used You should be aware that these manuals will be out before the software actually reaches customers When It will be included in IMAGE 3000 Version A 4 2 on MIT date coded 1701 This should be in the hands of your CE by end of Feb 77 and as of that date all new systems shipped will have this feature C mputer Cost Museum Included in IMAGE 3000 at no extra charge Maintenance The extension is an integral part of IMAGE 3000 and is fully supported by HP Competition As far as we know t
24. addition to greater speed E Series offers much more oppor tunity for growth In effect it is a computing vehicle whose horsepower can be increased at will without a forced switch to a new computer M Series computers will continue in production as a com panion line and are expected to find preference where E Series high speed and expandability are unnecessary E Series computers are expected to broaden the pos sibilities for multi terminal use the more complex forms of data analysis high speed graphics and computer aided design Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 at burst rates up to 5 7 million words a second A second In contrast with practice that has been common in the past Hewlett Packard offers full support for systems applications of the E Series computers as they are introduced Irideed the first use of the fast new models was in the HP 1000 System introduced in October A 16K word E Series com puter chosen today for its economy in some single applica tion can later become a 304K word multi user multi programmed distributed system central computer with a full complement of supporting equipment In the course of ex pansion the user need never switch computers re write software or change any I O devices Added Speed Added speed has been accomplished without additional power consumption Although faster Schottky TTL circuitry is used and the memory cy
25. aio _ POINT TQ BENT tees MULTE COIN t t Lversicnik vrara FASIA pera or ampie mn ga FRPSY CHAIAED Lu s Saa i GE RP MELEP Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 15 COMPANY PRIVATE COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER t REHA DISPLAY STATION FEATURES PROVIDES 229 BYTES SEMVESLERT BLS STORAGE FOR LINE DaTh ENTRY DERECY FILE ACCESS WITH HIGH SPEED SEARCH PEAT Dp WRITE AS AAD BENGE Y CATE SICKES DISPLAY TKFORMATION AUTOMATIC ALLY BALA DISPLAY STATION FEATURES ar RR aE LARGE Q CEE MATRIX FOR PRECISE CHARACTER Fi us p Se GENERATES CORVED TYPEMEITER LIKE CHARACTERS NORMAL 1 BLIH AND COMBINATIONS am uw 38 2 28316 DISPLAY STAT EON FEATURES SI8SGLE KETSTPOKE CFERATICOH USTIM QeREALTUOV PREVEHTS EMD OF LINE TRBRBTTER 1055 6G PESSTIBLT Lite As CRWARLEME NTS FERMATE TEXT THE Ay DU WANT T BOTH ALPHA AND HUMES EC Lago A Lata EMTEY FREEZES PORTIONS OF HE SCREEN MEM EWOTEC FOL FIRE CRY VERE LOW TBRHAMOT G MARACTER nS ae GREE MOVEABLE VACII NT THE Ft THRU F2 KEYS Bennet etn PO Can BE TEXT OP CONTROL CODES MIILCNSGLLUADGCHGNCUNUN cusrnwrzES NE KEYS TD QUR APRLICATIOR NEIRUINGIZMGNUUDTANI REDUCES ERPORS BY PERFORMING ume SEVERAL OPERATIONS HITA ORE REY SUITES TERMINAL TO YOUR ASPLI Ra PERFORM LOCAL OPER
26. als even experienced customers are both application and computer experts What often lies between a user knowledgeable of his problem and a successful computer solution is the software offering of the vendor Where does HP excel in this aspect A lot of questions for sure we ll devote a full article to their discussion The HP 1000 Qualifying the Instrumentation Sale By Dave Hannebrink DSD HP can be all things to all customers A gray area often exists in deciding what to offer what to commit to and what Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 to get involved in when mulling over that potential big sale What do we expect of customers and their understanding of their application problems An ill defined instrumentation problem has no computer solution On the other hand a little pre sales savvy in helping the prospect write a spec or a benchmark can lock us into the solution How should we approach these situations What determines if the prospect wants to talk turn key Hardware and systems software Hardware only Where do we feel most comfortable If we can t or won t do the job for a customer can one of our OEM s Often we can use both current needs and future wants in selling HP 1000 based instrumentation systems The lab and production applications of today could become the distri buted network nodes of tomorrow How can we identify these opportunities What hardware configurations are typical of o
27. ccessible microprogrammable instruction store would be 36 150 in the U S HP OEM quantity discount schedules apply they range from 1596 to 3596 Delivery estimates currently are 9 to 12 weeks DSD Configuration Literature By Dave Hendrix DSD From the passing of Fiscal 76 into the birth of Fiscal 77 our systems configuration philosophies have changed a great deal specifically with the addition of the new HP 1000 con figurations and the deletion of all the 96XX s except for the 9640A With these changes some clarification to our config uration material must follow The system configuration guides are designed to help you mold a customer desired configuration as a system The point I m trying to make is that our manufacturing operations Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 in building a system are different than those of building a field installed product or subsystem Products or options ordered on a system order are manicured in house for system integration and in most cases are installed at the factory Line item orders with no system associated to it may differ with respect to what is supplied with the product since the assumption is that it will be field installed vs factory integrated Another thing to consider is the fact that the configuration guides do get outdated Updates do occur but because of that time lag between updates or new revisions you can only use that information provided as a guide not the gos
28. ced versions of RTE WHI 92001B and 92060B respectively All the new systems that Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 11 LITERATURE ORDER NUMBER AVAILABILITY FROM 5953 0842 February 1 9B Corp will be bulk Literature distributed Dist 5953 0000 February 1 9B will be bulk distributed 5953 0827 Now 98 5953 0832 Now 98 5953 0830 NOW 9B 5953 0828 Now 9B 5953 0824 Now 9B 5953 0822 Now 9B 5953 0823 Now 9B 5953 0826 Now 9B 5953 0833 Now 9B 02109 90006 Mid January CPC 02109 90001 Now CPC 02109 90004 Now CPC 02109 90002 Now CPC distributed 9 76 distributed 9 76 distributed 9 76 5953 0816 Mid January 9B will be bulk distributed 5953 0837 Mid January 9B will be bulk distributed 5953 0835 Now 9B 5953 0836 Now 9B are shipping have the new RTE s and all the customers on the Software Subscription Service are getting it mailed to them in January Therefore the ones to watch out for are all the old system customers with A version RTE software 92001A and 92060A Upgrades must be purchased in COMPANY PRIVATE x i i i n M i COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER order to be compatible with the new RJE 1000 These up grades are RTE Il 92001B 5000 Opt 001 4500 500 RTE Ill 92060B 6000 Opt 001 5500 500 NOTE These upgrades are only good for cus tomers having 920
29. cle is down from 650 to 560 ns the most important contribution to E Series 70 10096 speed im provement is variable microcycle timing VMT in the 24 bit microprogrammable contro processor that manages regis ters logic memory and I O structure This computer within a computer now runs in cycles of dynamically variable length Instead of the formerly needed 325 ns for the longest microinstructions microcode fine tuning has brought the few worst case conditions down to 280 ns Most instructions however now can run in 175 ns and that is the new control processor s basic period but with VMT it knows enough to stretch a single cycle out to 280 ns for those few instructions that need it Growth Power The power of E Series computers can be expanded at any time Three features make this possible First the new com puter places at the user s disposal a control processor ad dress space ultimately expandable in convenient modular increments to 8 5K 24 bit words This is enough to write a whole new operating system if that were desirable and certainly enough so free use can be made of microcoded subroutines that run up to 20 times faster than from main memory Second to make it easy to exploit the new control space a complete set of microprogramming software is offered including micro assembler micro editor loader and debug utilities Third with E Series computers it is now possible under software control to transfer routines f
30. come documented additions to these demos Please send them to either Bob Crum or Jean Danver so a backup tape can be made To obtain these workspaces once signed on to the DEMO account in APL 3000 type JLOAD wsname PUB This will replace your workspace with the one named Either Bob or will gladly send copies of these workspaces to anyone who sends us a mag tape Some advice on customer demonstrations 1 The answer to the do you have question is almost always yes except a File Commands we use shared variables to access MPE files b Formatting we only have IBM s thorn in monadic and dyadic versions 2 Since our APL 3000 EDITOR is different than the stand ard APL editor the prospect will have to be shown how to use it 3 BothBob and lare willing to answer any questions your prospects have However experience has shown that it is not advisable for us to talk to the prospect directly The answers frequently require explanations of the 3000 file system and the like which can not be explained easily over the telephone Since you already know the 3000 we can quickly explain the APL 3000 to you and you can handle the 3000 part By the way APL 3000 is available to be installed in field demo centers Contact Sam Boot GSD Sales Development for details COMPANY PRIVATE COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER European Isolation Transformer By Fritz JoerniIBBN We are happy to announce that after a fru
31. elp your customer mold that RFQ without having to make ten different trips because you didn t have the proper reference material You just ain t a shortin This is our goal read on for more detail The HP 1000 What s Available By Dave Hannebrink DSD Because of our instrumentation expertise we have an impressive list of available HP 1000 supported plug in VO hardware front end measurement subsystems computer compatible bench instrumentation and real time software utilities to help solve a broad spectrum of application prob lems However with such a long list we re often puzzled as to what solution to pursue For instance we sell primarily into either lab or industrial environments What rnakes these different selling situations Why do we build both 9603R and 9611R front ends Both our analog 2313B and digital I O subsystems 91063A have several plug in card options High level mul tiplexing low level multiplexing event sense event counter etc What does all this really mean in terms of customer needs Then there s always the self sufficient do it yourself hardware whiz What general interfaces can we offer him What about HP IB Where does it fit into the picture Peripherals The right ones can make the job easier Every body knows about the familiar I O devices How about some thing more special plotters for instance What can we sell as a package Finally there s always software Very few individu
32. emote Station Communication Kit for Distributed Systems 91226A 001 Substitute Digital Driver for Analog Driver 91226B Remote Station Communication Kit for HP 1000 91780A RJE 1000 91780A 001 Delete 12618A Not compatible with E Series diagnostic configurator therefore not compatible with multimedia diagnostic distribution Stand alone paper tape diagnostic is available DSD Unveils 21MX E Series Computers By David CarveriDSD Effective January 2 1977 the new 21MX E Series com puters are available for general sale We will accept orders from OEM s and End Users alike with no restriction on the quantity ordered The introduction will occur simultaneously worldwide with Grenoble and YHP fully on board to support your sales efforts The Data Systems Division is now geared up for volume production of both E Series computers and HP 1000 sys tems As of this writing December 17 approximately 70 E Series computers have been built and we anticipate being able to maintain good availability on computers and Systems In the coming months SAN PRIVATE COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER Orders have also been very encouraging To date we have received a total of 143 orders for the E Series of which 67 have been for HP 1000 systems and 76 have been for E Series Computers All E Series components and supporting products appear in the January Corporate Price List and in the January 2 availability schedule GOOD SELLING
33. g to let you know when we see an order which does not appear correct Then it is your responsibility to correct it or accept it shipped as ordered COMPANY PRIVATE COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER WHAT RELIABILITY REALLY MEANS By Rich Ferguson DTD A lot of to do is made about reliability on different HP prod ucts It s interesting to note what this really means to cus tomer applications Pictured here is a very interesting example of what customers can do with HP equipment because of the inbred rugged design and reliability that is built into the 2644 and the 21MX There is a company in Canada that mounts the 2644 in a specially designed airplane that cruises at an altitude of 2000 feet to take geological surveys looking for natural resources and minerals etc As you might imagine cruising at several hundred miles an hour at only 200 feet above ground would cause an extremely bumpy ride The terminal is shock mounted but still takes a horrible beating accord ing to the customers Computer Museum This company chose the 2644 terminal because of its rug ged design and modularity since it is very easy to repair in the field This is quite important simply because the areas in which the airplane flies are usually remote quite a distance from any HP field office So next time you re talking about reliability and the rugged ness of our terminal product line mention this application
34. hanically for full credit to be issued If products do not meet the above restocking and or refurbishing charges will apply The field will be notified immediately if product does not meet standards and will be informed of restocking and or refurbishing charges at that time All products returned must have all cables and accessories returned with unit Consignment units will not be accepted for return for credit Software and manuals will not be accepted for return for credit Al credits transmitted are tentative until product returned has met the above criteria if change is necessary field will be asked to retransmit Returns directly from customers not routing through sales office are not to be allowed All returns should be routed through sales offices unless factory is notified in advance Obsolete products will not be accepted for return If any questions feel free to contact me Fire Sale on 1009A System Work Table By Joe Schoendort DSD The System Work Table see page 481 in the 1975 HP catalog is now on sale at 130 It originally sold for 275 These can serve as accessory tables for the HP 1000 The dimensions are 30 high 60 long and 20 wide COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER 21MX E Series Literature Hot Off The Press By Linda Schefter DSD Now you ve got a complete up to date list of E Series literature at your fingertips Most is stocked on your shelves right this minute Some is so curre
35. he 11 70 with IAS is the only system with a database callable from BASIC Not even the big main frames can do it and this is our key if you have a customer who is contemplating decentralizing his database from a big system to a 3000 point out how BASIC 3000 will get his users closer to the data than is achievable on his mainframe with its compiler languages APL DEMONSTRATIONS By Jean H Danver GSD General Systems Division has APL 3000 available on its demonstration 3000 Series Il We can make time available on this machine for customer demonstrations Your sales development engineer can make arrangements Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 21 To help you with demonstrations and to share useful APL 3000 programs several demonstration workspaces are in the public library of the DEMO account Right now the following workspaces are available under the DEM account 1 The DEMOWS workspace explains the APL 3000 Demos on the system Upon loading it automatically gives a summary 2 The FILEWS workspace contains several well documented programs using files 3 The EXTENDWS workspace contains several procrams demonstrating the extended control functions 4 The APLGOL workspace contains several programs written in APLGOL with the APL 3000 equivalent 5 The DEMO2641 workspace contains programs which require the 2641 APL Terminal 6 The USEFUL workspace has a number of useful or interesting functions We wel
36. honey in Bill Senske s Technical Marketing Department The training group Paul McGillicuddy is responsible only for actual classroom teaching so if you have any input or critiques please ad dress it to the appropriate person HP 1000 Order Problems By Bill R Johnson DSD We are having some confusion with orders for HP 1000 systems In addition to the 2170 71 72 some of these orders contain line items for software such as Multiuser BASIC 92101A DS1 B 91700A and IMAGE 92063A with no options on the software When this software is ordered as a standard on a paper tapeless HP 1000 we ship it as unin tegrated paper tape If you want the software on mini cartridges and integrated you must order option 020 When you don t order 020 we are not certain whether you made a mistake or intended the paper tape software Consequently we will handle this situation as follows When we receive an order for 2170 71 72 with line item software without option 020 our O P department will TWX your O P department informing them that you have ordered and we will ship the unintegrated paper tape version of the software If you want the integrated mini cartridge version you must transmit a change order adding option 020 If this change order arrived within four weeks of the scheduled ship week the system will be rescheduled want you to be clear that it is your responsibility to see that the order is transmitted correctly We are willin
37. iness can be expected for 2640 series terminals and 9866 or 9871 printers Such packages have been mailed to about thirty users of an ACCESS system If you plan to direct a similar campaign in your territory con tact me at Boise and will supply you with the proper material and a copy of John s package Congratulations to John for his fine job Why the 3070A As a Light Manufacturing Factory Floor Data Collection Device By Bernard Guidon Boise One of the keys to the manufacturing information system is the data entry process Without it there is just no manufac turing control since no data is available In manufacturing operations Real Time Data Entry is provided by input termi nals widely distributed on the factory floor There are three types of terminals available 1 The very primitive small pushbutton terminal which usually is slow to operate or very limited in information capacity 2 The application terminal where there is extensive use of canned messages A single button represents a part identity or a particular function 3 The CRT terminal with a keyboard Types 1 and 3 miss the light manufacturing industry as an application area Type 1 terminal is really designed for heavy industry operations and Type 3 CRT terminals require typing skills which are not available on the factory floor In addition CRT terminals are too expensive for wide use Therefore only applications terminals similar to Type 2 will fit fo
38. lay This tape will not give a useful display on 2645 s y2 bien ae Have fun with and good selling I E MEL d PEERQMTING HE T n B Shag Ls Iratin Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 B BReUSB Bain AWECOOOOM Lur 14 COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER amp 2 i FUR INSTAMCE ise M Huq adir edu These microvector elements can be used as Duilding bis aaplay sr to reproduse complete business Gr pr ckders Lymn of t iine tut matomatica ly w the enn of m evilus lina ise io amp igen shores ELTELTE etl sees selsesuoo ET trea hn m o EGALIS wxhesecin mL ressort i bets i P E ALSU CUSTOM AND SPLIT BAUT RATES STQRT STOP DR GPTIOCHAL IBM RISYMU PRE TADS YEEWRITER COMPUT IBLE Romas eg d amp ar amp shown zn franz side oF assignments dif se from APL Lege COMBINATIONS OF SHARED LOCAL GR REMOTE LINES 2 E b Rii Operator may tjer wamra cnaracters i bacisgence as far as E amp T ovarsivake the app ap t chararter s press return in chasarter mode mensle on birek one weve i15 at examele BU o saN THE 26416 MAKES SIDE ea jie taray tee Mr FLEKTBLE DATA COMMUNICATION NETUURKS rigni fungtien Cin a ron APL freid spering will oonr c wrile excshing gheracters with blanks STEND CONES T 9 SIM TLOGAL 2 2 E zma es Far immedi
39. n the industry s most extensive experience with semiconductor memory Compatibility The instruction set of the 21MX E Series computers is en tirely compatible with 21MX M Series and 2100 equipment and most I O cards and peripheral subsystems are inter changeable Since E Series computers are significantly fas ter certain time dependent loops will function differently and routines involving them will require revision A few inter face cards will not be immediately offered with E Series models Configurations Prices and Delivery Distinguished in appearance from 21MX M Series com puters by their gold trim 21MX E Series computers will be offered in two sizes the 2109A with 8 3 4 height and the 2113A with 12 height The smaller model has space for 9 powered I O cards and up to 5 memory cards providing as much as 80K words of main memory 2113A will support 14 VO cards and 10 memory cards maximum memory 160K words Standard with all 21 MX computers of both series are parity checking extended arithmetic unit floating point data communication instructions and brownout proof power supply U S list price of a basic E Series computer a 2109A with 16K words of main memory is 8 550 In more typical form with 32K memory Fast Fortran processor and 1K Writable Control Store the 2109A has a U S list price of 13 900 At the higher end a 2113A with maximum 160K main mem ory Fast Fortran processor and maximum user a
40. nswered You bet your sweet amp We have added a lot of new blood in the field in the past year and we feel its important to talk about the HP 1000 in Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 sales qualifying and the nitty gritty considerations as sociated with an instrumentation type sale The direction of our articles to come will be to provide as much information as we can surrounding instrumentation We will emphasize general concepts such as performance levels of front ends Why is the medium to low perfor mance level front ends the direction we have chosen to pursue How can we still satisfy higher performance requirements PRIVATE COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER We will emphasize the advantages of our products and our product line Did you know that the 2313B is the only box in the industry that provides low level multiplexer LLMPX measurement capability and high level multiplexer mea surement HLMPX capability together We will also talk about our software capabilities its pluses and minuses We will provide as much detail as we can gather in the way of hardware software performance Won t it be nice to have a finger tip reference to all tne questions you ever had about our instrumentation capabilities Won t it be nice to be able to take that RFQ and answer most of its requirements right from one information source rather than having to have a desktop full of reference material Won t it be nice to h
41. nt it s not even off the presses as of this writing but will be soon Choose from BROCHURES New 21MX Computers four color brochure Features the new E Series yet covers the entire MX Family as well all under one cover Price Configuration Guide DATA SHEETS 21MX E Series Computer 2109A 2113A 21MX E Series Fast FORTRAN Processor 13306A 21MX E Series Firmware Accessory Board 13304A 21MX E Series Semiconductor Memory System 2102B 12994A 12998A 13187A 21MX E Series Writable Control Store 13197A 21MX E Series Dual Channel Port Controller 12897B 21MX E Series Memory Protect 12892B 21MX E Series Dynamic Mapping System 13305A also includes Memory Expansion Module 12731A and DMS Instruction Group 13307A 21MX M Series and E Series DISComputers 2124B 2125A 2126A REFERENCE MANUALS New 21MX M Series and E Series I O Interfacing Guide 21MX E Series Operating and Reference Manual 21MX E Series Microprogramming Reference Manual 21MX E Series Installation and Service Manual FIELD TRAINING MANUALS 21MX E Series Fieid Training Manual 21MX Computers A Guide to Selling Memory Reliability 21MX Family Competitive Analysis APPLICATION NOTES New Remote Program Load New Microprogrammable Block I O Microprogrammable Processor Port E Series Microprogramming RJE 1000 Update By Jim Eckford iDSD Be sure and remember that the new improved RJE 1000 package requires the new enhan
42. pel to what is received with what is ordered the same is true for data sheets Periodically we get calls concerning what a customer re ceived vs what is assumed they should get In most cases what the customer received is what they should have re ceived in accordance to the way it has been set up in our manufacturing area again with respect to a system option vs the stand alone product So when you are laying out a system configuration for your customer and there is some question as to what is provided with each option use the Configuration Guide Data Sheets or the newly published in microfiche form Product Content Guide as a guide to what is received As to a published commitment to what is supplied DSD stands behind what is published in the CPL If more exact information is required contact your friendly sales development engineer We are here to please Sell 1000 s they are the cleanest easiest to order products we have Eg The 9600 Price Configuration Guide is over one year old and it is still the only means to configure 9640 s Beware of information changes Image 1000 Giveaway Ended January 1 By Fred GibbonsiDSD The program for including IMAGE 1000 free with each HP 1000 Model 80 and 81 ended on January 1 1977 Only orders transmitted prior to January 1 qualified The elimination of the giveaway program has however been accompanied by a price reduction for IMAGE 1000 software As of January 1 1977 IMAGE 1
43. port if needed Sell E Series with confidence Ci E Series Compatibility Update By David Carver DSD Since the October 1976 New Product Tour several products have been added to the list of E Series compatible products The new additions are given in the following table Notable for its absence is the 12979A I O Extender We are very close to the solution to its problem and will advise you as soon as it is ready A price configuration guide will be distributed to all sales offices in mid January This guide will contain compiete pricing and compatibility information for Data Systems Division computer products and accessories Until you receive the guide use the following table together with the E Sertt id Training Manual as your official compatibility list Quote prices only according to the Corporate Price List Additional copies of the E Series Field Training Manual are available Write David Carver at DSD if you need another copy Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 E Series Compatibility Update Product Number Description 92900A 3070A Terminal Subsystem 13178B Multi CPU Interface for 7905A Disc Drives 12531C C Terminal interface 12880A Terminal Interface 12618A Synchronous Communications Interface 12554A 16 Bit Duplex Register 12556B 40 Bit Output Register 12936A Privileged Interrupt Fence 91200B Video Display Interface 9603R 9611R Remote Measurement and Control Stations 91226A R
44. r factory shop floor data collection in light manufacturing The HP 3070A and HP 3071A are Type 2 terminals whereby input can be sent by a few key strokes Indicator lights operated by the computer guide the operator in the correct message entry sequence Canned messages are avail able with the 10 special function keys of the keyboard uL 2 JES COMPUTER SYSTEMS N WSLETTER But it s from that point on that 3070A s demonstrate their unique features Whereas most of Type 2 terminals available on the market are simply RS 232C and require one interface per terminal the 3070A offers multi drop communications with up to 63 terminals on a single twisted pair cable and therefore only one interface Furthermore error free com munications afforded by a special handshaking protocol are another plus for HP Finally the internal HP IB structure definitely makes the 3070A a winner on the competition There Is Just No Better Real Time Terminal Avail able Today on the Market for the Factory Shop Floor In Light Manufacturing than the 3070A Sell the 3070A s it will help you sell the system too Who Supports the 3070A By Phil Price Boise There has been some confusion in the field regarding the support of the new 3070A 3071A Data Entry Terminal from Grenoble Division 3070A 3071A hardware and RTE II III driver software are being supported from Boise Division by myself for the U S and Canada and b
45. rom Boise for a 3000 system you must also purchase a 30209A interface from GSD And mag tape options 304 and 305 from Boise also require an interface 30215A from GSD Please refer to pages 24 and 25 in Volume 2 Number 1 of the Computer Systems Newslet ter for a breakdown of both GSD s and Boise s product responsibility Keeping customer satisfaction in the forefront means plac ing these items in your quote or instructing your order pro cessing personnel about these products requiring coordina tion due to installation specifications HP BOASTS TWO SPEAKERS AT CIPS SEMINAR By Larry Hartge GSD The 1976 annual Canadian information Processing Society s seminar held in Toronto had over 350 paid attendees For a mere fee of 120 the attendees listened to three days of talks on Intelligent Terminals Data Bases and Small Busi Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 22 ness Systems Hewlett Packard was the only firm with more than one speaker Bob Bowden of the Data Terminals Division gave a speech titled When Do Need Intelligent Terminals on the first day Larry Hartge from General Systems Division kicked off the second day as the keynote speaker on Data Base with a talk titled Data Base on Minis Both talks were very well received there being a large number of requests for copies of both In addition to the fine reception the speakers were rewarded with a beautiful proof set of Olympic Coins
46. rom disc or other sources directly into microcode store making the fast control processor available dynamically as a resource under operating system control High speed data transfers under microprogram control are possible in two new ways E Series computers provide a microprogrammable processor port MPP directly onto the main data bus Through this port data transfers are possible way to transfer data at higher speeds than are possible with conventional direct memory access methods is with micro programmable block I O MBIO MBIO uses the computer s standard O structure but three new signals at the backplane now permit the use of special interface cards that can move blocks of data at rates up to 1 5 megaworcs per second MPP and MBIO both under microprogram control enable the user to custom design intelligent channels that operate at control processor speeds COMPANY PRIVATE a ein tae ate iene i ra a a a i a aa ae EA COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER New Self Test Diagnostics On E Series models self test is automatic on power up or on command from the front panel Using three separate microcoded diagnostics it checks all CPU logic without affecting the contents of registers or memory When destruc tion of data is allowable however the entire main memory is subjected to the same sophisticated test procedure HP de veloped for memory parts testing a procedure based o
47. strating and long search and after a lengthy in house evaluation of different types of isolation transformers we are now able to offer you an address of a German transformer manufacturer who makes them to our specifications The most used model in Europe will be a transformer with three equally balanced phases on the primary side costing less than DM 1500 The input can be set to three voltages 380V 10 and the output is 230V 45 AMPS just the right thing for our 3000 s The other transformer will be the single phase trans former for under DM 1000 At least one is required for each 3000 but we suggest that you add another transformer for 3000 s with additional peripherals You should also con sider transformers with 2000 ACCESS Systems and in cases where interrupted processing with bad power lines is needed Ordering details have been distributed by Uwe Jensen to the European sales and service managers Does Your Order Require A Coordinated Shipment By Sharon Bradley GSD If you are ordering line printers or magnetic tape options from Boise for a 3000 system it certainly does Due to the shift in manufacturing responsibility of line prin ters and magnetic tape units 3000 orders requiring certain Boise products must be coordinated with GSD products to ship at approximately the same time Only a small percen tage of our coordinated shipments have been coming in coded as such When ordering a line printer f
48. thirty one HP 3070 terminals Programming is done in the powerful yet easy to learn HP Extended BASIC language Data entered via 3070 terminals may be processed completely by the 2000 system or simply pre processed before transmission to a larger central system Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 CSRC Ready to Repair 3070A s for U S and Canada By Phil Price Boise The Computer Systems Repair Center in Mountain View is ready to receive and repair domestic and Canadian 3070A s and 3071A s which eventually fail Hal Smith and Jesus Preciado have received one week s training on the new data entry terminals and cannot wait to receive the first units Hal and Jesus are very excited about the 3070A and are certainly the only people in the U S Canada wishing units to fail But we designed them strong so that they may have to wait for a while Welcome to the 3070A team Telex Interface Resurrected as Special By Guenter Kloepper HPG Remember the 15253A 5 level telex interface Due to popular demand from a lot of you out there in the field we have transferred all of the manufacturing documen tation from Boeblingen and we will build arun of thirty cards on a special basis some of these will go into the board exchange pipeline If you would like technical data on this interface drop a line to Catherine Clay Since this is a special and involves a lot of non routine effort we are charging 1200 for the card We expect
49. times for a Range of APL activities on a multi lingual system Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 20 Response Time seconds Script descriptions mmoou o Medium Mix Heavy Mix Light Mix 512K bytes 512K bytes 384K bytes 5 A scripts 3 A scripts 5 A scripts 3 Bscripts 3 Bscripts 3 B scripts 3 C scripts 2 C scripts 2 C scripts 2 Dscripts 3 D scripts 1 E script 3 Escripts 3 Escripts 1 F script 2 F scripts 2 F scripts 18 Terminals 16 Terminals 12 Terminals Average response times for a range of activities on a dedi cated APL system Edit interactive program and execute Edit simple calculation program and execute Assignments and addition in calculator mode Compute bound large workspace swapping program Compute bound simple calculations Compute bound primes program IMAGE NOW CALLABLE FROM BASIC Yes It s Official Folks Now IMAGE 3000 has been extended so that it can be called from BASIC 3000 Both interpreted or compiled pro grams may now call the full set of IMAGE 3000 intrinsics giving customers a new capability which none of our com petitors can match namely the ability to interface to a major database from 5 different languages simultaneously if necessary COMPANY PRIVATE COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER BAS C 3000 is also an excellent vehicle for less computer oriented people to get data out of a dat
50. to your customer It will really drive home the point Our thanks to our Canadian sales force who found one of the most interesting applications to date for the 2640 terminals Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 COMPANY PRIVATE COMPUTER SYST DATA COMM OPTIONS REVEALED By Eric GrandjeaniDTD The following table should answer a lot of questions that we have recently received regarding data communications op tions on the 2641 and 2645A ITEM Interface Printed Circuit Assembly ROM IC s Keyboard Overlay Baudrate Label Test Connector Assembly 13260A 02640 60086 1818 0213 02644 00002 7120 5486 02645 60002 13260B 02640 60089 13250A 1818 0213 02644 00002 7120 5486 02645 60003 PART NUMBERS 13260C 02640 60106 1818 0214 std only 1818 0261 opt 001 only 1818 0288 02645 00003 7120 5485 02645 60002 02645 60004 13260D 02640 60107 1818 0214 std only 1818 0261 opt 001 only 1818 0288 02645 00003 7120 5485 02645 60002 02645 60004 The 2641 or 2645 Option 030 deletes from the terminal exactly what the 13260A contains APL DEMO TAPE By Eric GrandjeaniDTD The slides on the following pages are extracts of your new APL demo tape One APL demo cartridge will be provided with each demo 2641A Please make sure that your demo 2641A has option 001 8K of memory and option 202 to obtain a correct dis p
51. to be in a four week delivery situation by the end of January Multi Drop As many as sixty three HP 3070 terminals can be physically connected to a single serial link cable shielded twisted pair The cable which connects to a single HP Computer Interface Card may be any length up to 1 24 miles 2 km and terminals can be connected at any point on the cable This lowers overall installation costs and provides excellent flexibility in locating and re locating terminals Error free communications The unique communications protocol used in the serial link is enhanced by sophisticated error detection and automatic re transmission facilities incorporated in each terminal Extensive use of hardware buffering in the computer interface further minimises unnecessary wasle of computer processing time Remote control of HP IB devices The capabilities prov ded to each user of a 3070 terminal can be expanded by the addition of any of the wide range of HP IB Compatible devices available The Hewlett Packard Interface Bus is Hewlett Packard s implementation of the IEE Standard 488 1975 digilal interface for programmable instrumentalion Over 100 HP IB Compatibie devices are currently available rom Hewlett Packard and more are being introduced each year Software considerations w iil normally reduce the number which may actually be connected and used COMPANY PRIVATE i I I 1 4 I i 1 1 i 1 1 I
52. ur traditional customers i e when can we expect to sell 96XX front ends or HP IB building blocks Can we provide special offerings What s the rule of thumb on special content to a sale When should we pursue these special configurations When should we steer clear No one can give unqualified answers to these questions Guidelines are available though and we will outline them in follow on articles Getting Down to the Nitty Gritty By Dave HendrixiDSD The last of our sequence of articles will detail the nitty gritty considerations of putting a system together Figure 2 pic tures a good measurement and control type system There is a lot of detail that has to be considered to mold the right type of system for your customer REAL TIME PROCESS TEMPERATURES PRESSURES ETC pum i TRANSDUCERS MEASUREMENT A D Subsystem OPERATOR COMMUNICATIONS DATA LOGGING Output PUNCHED TAPE CONTACT CLOSURES SIGNAL CONDITIONING DIGITAL INPUT OUTPUT ANALOG ANALOG INPUTS VOLTAGES OPERATING SYSTEM INTERFACE OIGITAL INPUT QUTPUT ANU STIMULUS AND SOFTWARE DIGITAL COMPUTER DATA COMMUNICATIONS Hardwire or Common Carrier DISC TO OTHER CARTRIOGE PRINTOUT MAG TAPE COMPUTER SYSTEMS CRT XY PLOT KEYBOARO DISPLAY PUNCHED TAPE Magnetic Tape and MASS STORAGE Disc Memory MAGNETIC TAPE OISC CARTRIOGE CAROS DISPLAY AND PLOTTING
53. vailable on 9580A Automatic Test Systems Many other papers by other ATE users included Hewlett Packard computer based equipment and we were mentioned to have the only commercial computer with an ATLAS compiler combination Volume 2 Number 5 January 10 1977 Computer Museum uj High interest was generated for our DTS 70 TESTAID III and HP ATLAS among the AUTOTESTCON 76 conven tioneers who came from all over the country Sell Hewlett Packard Automatic Test and Measurement Systems Bob Funk SE showing off the DTS 70 9611R Price Increase By Jim McCabe AMD The 9611R price has been increased from 8890 to 10 900 This represents only about a three percent price increase on a typical System 1000 9611R system of 80K COMPANY PRIVATE Ta COMPUTER SYSTEMS NEWSI TTER 21MX E Series Computer The Supportable One By Orrin MahoneyiDSD Your field C E organization is ready and willing to support 21MX E Series computers Two one week product specialist training courses have already been given and over two dozen service kits have already been distributed worldwide Our division is committed to having a service kit in every region before ar E Series computer or HP 1000 is installed in that region and so far we have met that commitment The E Seri ars to be a very reliable product and we are ready to back up the field C E organization with product expertise and sup
54. y Grenoble Division Maurice Richez for the rest of the HP world 3070A software for System 2000 being an integral part of the operating system is supported by GSD Division Don t fool around and don t be misinformed CALL US we love your calls Complete systems Software is available to suppor the use of the HP3070A terminals with the Hewlett Packard Timesharing and Real Time Operating Systems of the HP 21MX series of minicomputers Each operaling system features a unique group of capabilities one of which will normally be optimum for your application Real Time The Hewlett Packard Real Time Operating Systems range irom small low price systems without a disc memory to large multi user disc based systems which can be linked to similar or smaller systems to form a distributed computing network Applications programs may be written in FORTRAN IV II conversational multiuser real time BASIC ALGOL or HP Assembler The systems provide for lime event operator and program to program scheduling of applications programs Typicaily up to fifty five HP 3070 terminals can be linked to an RTE II or RTE III system Timeshare The Hewlelt Packard 2000 Computer system offers powerful stand alone local data processing for multiple terminals plus concurrent remote job entry RJE to an IBM or CDC computer The system supports up to thirty two conventional interactive ter minals plus up to
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