HP 85B Calculator / Computer w/ HP 9121D Drive
This HP 85B refurbished with new printer belts, is working like new. I tested tape drive with my own cartridges but almost all or even sealed tapes are ended up with errors due to 30 years or so old ages. If you have tapes still working, you'd better save them to disks as soon as possible. By the addition of HP 9121 disc drive to HP 85, it becomes very usable system. You may enjoy the 80's professional hardwares and softwares with the privilege of modern cyber space technology by downloading all the manuals, application pac, peripheral accessories and programs. This is the legendary, high-performance all in one system of HP 80 series computers, with over $3,000 price tag on 1981. The HP 9121 disk drive is very reliable drive using 3.5 inch single side double density floppy disk. As you know, disk is much more reliable and faster than tape. And also disks are very easy to find out in cheap price. You may use any kind of 3.5 inch floppy disks available today or even your old floppy disks used in PC.
This item includes the following:
- HP 85B computer (looks excellent, still holding the original almond cream color and refurbished with new printer belts. The tape cartridge shown in the pictures is not included in this item. It’s for my own test purposes only)
- HP 9121D SSDD disc drive (looks and works like new by cleaning in and out)
- An HP-IB Interface adapter and two power cords
- One partial roll of thermal printer paper
- LIF formatted 3.5 inch floppy disks loaded with HP application packs and a data CD with tons of HP programs and manuals.
- MSDOS boot disk with LIFUTIL.EXE to be used to convert HP program DOS files to LIF files.
To run LIFUTIL.EXE properly, you may need a PC with built-in 3.5" disk drive and FAT32 formatted hard drive. Download HP 80 series program files in binary format into your PC hard drive and boot PC with MSDOS 3.5 inch boot disk provided and run LIFUTIL.EXE which is easy to use self-explanatory DOS program and you may get more information from InternetThis item is over 40 lbs and shipped in two split boxes with insurance.DOA must be reported within five days from arrival.
All returns for any reason, must be paid by buyer and shipped in the original packages with insurance. This item is over 30 years old system and very susceptible to shipping damage and must be handled with care.
