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Hewlett Packard HP-9836	Computers	Professional Computer	U.S.A.	1983	Motorola 68000	name image company company_name specs tabs forum_thread links related oc_id source HP-9836 /media/museum/photos/hp_hp9836_1.jpg /companies/hewlett-packard Hewlett Packard label value NAME HP-9836 label value MANUFACTURER Hewlett Packard label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR 1983 label value KEYBOARD full stroke keyboard with numeric keypad and function keys label value CPU Motorola 68000 label value SPEED 8 MHz label value RAM 512 KB (up to 2.5 MB) label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES 80 x 25 label value GRAPHIC MODES Unknown label value COLORS monochrome label value SOUND Unknown label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS Centronics, RS232c, HP IB label value BUILT IN MEDIA 1 or 2 x 5''1/4 flexible disc drives label value OS ROM BASIC label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in power supply label value PRICE Unknown links 153 title url text HP Museum http://www.hpmuseum.net The best place about old HP computers and calculators. title url text Joe Rigdon pages http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/9800.htm More information about HP 98xx series /museum/hewlett-packard-hp-9810 /museum/hewlett-packard-hp-9816 /museum/hewlett-packard-hp-9825 /museum/hewlett-packard-hp-9826 /museum/hewlett-packard-hp-9830 141 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230329012240/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=141 2023-03-29

The Hewlett Packard HP 9000 is the ancestor of the actual HP9000 station!

The RAM can be extended by blocks of 128 Kb. It is possible to add one or two processors (its power is then brought to 1.7 mips or 2.5 mips). It runs under HP-UX (Unix) and is sold with a database (image 9000), a 3D graphic program (graph 9000), as well as the BASIC, Pascal, FORTRAN and C programming languages.

There was a later variant with a 68010 processor that supported HP-UX (the HP version of Unix). It was called the 9836U. There were color versions of both, the 9836C and the 9836CU.

Marks Simms reports that the system HP that was sold as the first 32-bit microcomputer was the 9020. It was based on HP's proprietary processor architecture. The 9020 was a desktop system, but was much larger than the 9836 and had only one floppy drive. It only ran HP-UX.

After these products had been launched, HP decided to give the HP 9000 name to all its technical computers and the 9836 became the HP 9000 model 236 and the 9020 became the HP 9000 model 520. Add the series 300, 700 and 800 and the term HP 9000 becomes almost meaningless.

The Series 200 included the HP-9816, HP-9826, HP-9836, and HP-9836C. The HP-9836 was mainly used for CAE applications, and high-technology (of that time !) in general.

Alan Barrow reports :
The 9020 was HP's 32 bit workstation prior to the switch to motorola processors. The 9020 started like the 9836 as basic, but was quickly refocused to HP-UX. It then became the 9000 Series 500. The later 9030 and 9050 offered more expansion and utilized CIO bus cards later used in the first S800's.

The Series 500 was a true multi user unix environment and was used both in workstation and mini-computer type environment.

One more family note: some of the S200's unix executables would work on the Integral in character mode as well. In fact, they would also work on the S300's in 16 bit mode, I believe. HP did a good job of trying to maintain compatability via standards.