Upgraded from the old HP 1000s I see ...
Ah, the memories. In the late 80’s I was an exciter tech in VAQ-131 and our bench was controlled by an HP 1000E. Awesome machine, with a full megabyte of RAM (if I remember correctly), and 20 megabytes of hard disk storage, 10 of which was on removable disks about the size of a frozen pizza. Best part was, to boot the machine you had to enter a 16 bit code to tell it which sector on the hard disk to boot from. You didn’t type the code in at the terminal, you punched it in on 16 rocker switches on the front panel. It was the weirdest combination of high and low tech. This was at a time when home machines varied from 4K to 64K of RAM, and 20mb of disk was unheard of (it was four to five years later before I got my first work computer with a hard drive, also 20 mb).
Thanks for the memories...