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Hewlett Packard HP-9826	Computers	Professional Computer	U.S.A.	1981	Motorola 68000	name image company company_name specs tabs photos adverts links comments related oc_id source HP-9826 /media/museum/photos/hp_9826_system_s1.jpg /companies/hewlett-packard Hewlett Packard label value NAME HP-9826 label value MANUFACTURER Hewlett Packard label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR 1981 label value END OF PRODUCTION Unknown label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE HP BASIC in ROM or separate diskette label value KEYBOARD Typewriter style. 74 keys + 24 function keys label value CPU Motorola 68000 label value SPEED 8 MHz label value RAM 128 KB up to 2 MB label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES Unknown label value GRAPHIC MODES b/w graphics hardware and soft support label value COLORS Monochrome label value SOUND Beeper label value I/O PORTS HP-IB port, 8 expansion slots label value BUILT IN MEDIA 1 5.25 label value OS HPL label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in power supply unit label value PERIPHERALS All HP-IB peripherals label value PRICE Unknown photos adverts links title subtitle text image SYSTEM #1 /media/museum/photos/hp_9826_system_s2.jpg title subtitle text image SYSTEM #2 /media/museum/photos/hp_9826_system_s3.jpg title subtitle text image REAR PANEL HP-IB connector and expansion slots. /media/museum/photos/hp_9826_rearpanel_s1.jpg title subtitle text image HP BROCHURE Extract of an HP sales brochure describing the models of the HP 9000-200 series. /media/museum/pubs/hp_9826_salesbrochure_s1.jpg 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 author date text Jon Leech (USA) Monday 29th July 2019 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 date text David Levine (USA) Wednesday 26th August 2009 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. /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 1068 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230530203910/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1068 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.