Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxk.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxk!kca55611 From: kca55611@ihuxk.UUCP (K.C.Anderson) Newsgroups: net.micro.hp Subject: HP-150 comments Message-ID: <592@ihuxk.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 14:37:06 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxk.592 Posted: Thu Mar 22 14:37:06 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 20:54:05 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 34 x We recently had an HP-150 demonstration model to play with in my department at work. I would consider it a nice machine, but unfortunately there were enough features missing that we decided against buying one. 1. Even though an HP-IB bus is physically present, the software to control and take measurements from lab instruments is basically non-existant. 2. The terminal emualator, expecially the Tek 4014, is excellent. But once you are in the terminal mode, you lose the other capabilities of the 150. It would also be nice if there was a filter to allow the 4014 vector graphics to be plotted using the 7470-type plotters. As it is now, all you can get is the dot-matrix style hardcopy for 4014 graphics. 3. The menu system for setting the options is a royal pain. Any option should be controllable by command, instead of hunting through a tree-structure for where it lives. Some branches of the tree are dead ends. I'm posting this in the hope that the HP people listening will consider this in future work on the 150 and other machines. And to correct me if I have any mis-information from my limited exposure to the HP-150's capabilities. Keith Anderson ihuxk!kca55611