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title: Hewlett Packard HP-9826
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Professional Computer
origins:
- U.S.A.
years:
- '1981'
cpus:
- Motorola 68000
params:
name: HP-9826
image: /media/museum/photos/hp_9826_system_s1.jpg
company: /companies/hewlett-packard
company_name: Hewlett Packard
specs:
- label: NAME
value: HP-9826
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Hewlett Packard
- label: TYPE
value: Professional Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: U.S.A.
- label: YEAR
value: '1981'
- label: END OF PRODUCTION
value: Unknown
- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
value: HP BASIC in ROM or separate diskette
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Typewriter style. 74 keys + 24 function keys
- label: CPU
value: Motorola 68000
- label: SPEED
value: 8 MHz
- label: RAM
value: 128 KB up to 2 MB
- label: ROM
value: Unknown
- label: TEXT MODES
value: Unknown
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: b/w graphics hardware and soft support
- label: COLORS
value: Monochrome
- label: SOUND
value: Beeper
- label: I/O PORTS
value: HP-IB port, 8 expansion slots
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: 1 5.25
- label: OS
value: HPL
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: Built-in power supply unit
- label: PERIPHERALS
value: All HP-IB peripherals
- label: PRICE
value: Unknown
tabs:
- photos
- adverts
- links
photos:
- title: 'SYSTEM #1'
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/hp_9826_system_s2.jpg
- title: 'SYSTEM #2'
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/hp_9826_system_s3.jpg
- title: REAR PANEL
subtitle: ''
text: HP-IB connector and expansion slots.
image: /media/museum/photos/hp_9826_rearpanel_s1.jpg
adverts:
- title: HP BROCHURE
subtitle: ''
text: Extract of an HP sales brochure describing the models of the HP 9000-200 series.
image: /media/museum/pubs/hp_9826_salesbrochure_s1.jpg
links:
- title: HP Museum
url: http://www.hpmuseum.net
text: The best place about old HP computers and calculators.
- title: Joe Rigdon pages
url: http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/9800.htm
text: More information about HP 98xx series
comments:
- author: Jon Leech (USA)
date: Monday 29th July 2019
text: They were 68000, or possibly 68010, not 6800. I was in the same classes as David BTW - long time no see! Nice little machines, for the time.
- author: David Levine (USA)
date: Wednesday 26th August 2009
text: |-
The HP-9826 was a screamingly fast and powerful machine for its time. It was much better than the IBM PC with twice the clock speed and a 16 bit bus, an external hard drive, a digitizing tablet, and 2 MB of RAM. That entire package I''m sure cost over $10000.
I used one in Jim Blinn''s CS286 computer graphics course at Caltech with an external 16 color monitor (Barco) for rendering. The programming language was Pascal.
We called them "chipmunks". I thought that was just a cute nickname but I recently read that was the internal HP codename for the machine.
I spent hundreds of hours cooped up in a room with them completing a program that was used to design integrated circuits.
related:
- /museum/hewlett-packard-hp-9810
- /museum/hewlett-packard-hp-9816
- /museum/hewlett-packard-hp-9825
- /museum/hewlett-packard-hp-9830
- /museum/hewlett-packard-hp-9836
oc_id: 1068
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230530203910/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1068
date: '2023-05-30'
---
The all-in-one HP 9826 computer was the successor of the 9825. It was the transition machine between the calculators/computers 9800 family and the HP-9000-200 desktop computer series. As it belonged to both the families, it was also called HP 9000-236
It was a robust and compact 6800-based machine which featured a 7" monochrome display, a complete keyboard (including first use of soft-keys and the scroll wheel at leftand), a 264 KB, 5.25" floppy-disk drive. On the rear panel, one also found one HP-IB port and 8 expansion slots.
Like the 9825, it ran HPL, but could also run BASIC and Pascal. The Basic interpreter was developped by HP and was also known as "Rocky Mountain BASIC", or RMB. This version would evolve into the HP-BASIC for the series-300 and HP-UX machines.
The 9826 was choosen and intensively used by the Walt Disney studios for "Tron", the first movie that used a computer to control all the processes implemented during the shoot, from camera adjustments to graphic and text superimpositions.