Introducing the HP Vectra Qsl20 PC -Top-Of-The-Line Desktop 80386 Power
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Information For Hewlett-Packard's Value-Added Businesses April 1989 ,' -1 'r. 9 4 Introducing the HP Vectra QSl20 PC -top-of-the-line desktop 80386 power HEWLETT PACKARD Table of Contents Volume 8, No. 6 8 Portable Editor Discontinuance announcement for Tracy Wester HP Portable Vectra CS PC I The HP NewWave environment - your HP Channels is published monthly for winning strategy for 1989 9 Desktop Introducing a desktop star: Hewlett-Packard's value-added busi- the HP Vectra QS120 PC nesses to provide you with information Peripherals about HP's products and services to - - help you be more successful. 10 Mass Storage Business Computers HP 7907A disk drive discontinuance plans For further information on any of the 2 General HP 9123D discontinuance products and services discussed in Special discounts on HP ALLBASEIQUERY. 11 Networks HP Channels, please contact your HP HP ALLBASEAGL, and HP ALLBASE ADCC Main to be removed from sales rep. ProcmonIV and TransformIV obsolescence HP Price List HP Officeshare family now supports 11 Printers See back cover for subscription Compaq PCs New HP Paintlet printer transparency film information. Technical Computers Does the ProCollection font cartridge replace other font cartridges'? Note: Not all HP computer products 3 General are sold and supported in all countries. HP BASIC-UX system shipping Supplies Please check with your local HP sales BASIC 5.13 now shipping 13 Supplies ofice. HP Pascal Language Processor products to HP DIRECT order phone numbers become obsolete Hewlett-Packard does not warrant the 4 HP1000 accuracy of the information provided in Announcing 5.1 release for HP 1000 HP Channels and shall not be liable Personal Computers for any use made of the information 6 General contained herein. Information provided Introducing the HP Intelligent Graphics 14 Software Packages Available and Wanted in HP Channels is subject to change Controller without notice. Introducing the HP 20-inch Color Display On the cover On the Cover The new HP Vectra QS/20 PC packs the power of a 20-MHz, 80386 proces- sor in a compact desktop package. Ideal for complex business applications and CAD, the HP Vectra QS/20 PC has the power to speed through sophisticated PC solutions. See article on page 9 for more details. HP CN,~,VNE~-.S April 1989 HP Computer Museum www.hpmuseum.net For research and education purposes only. The HP NewWave environment -your winning strategy for 1989 Hewlett-Packard set an objective to Ouickly responding to your changing "The HP NewWave Environment assure the success of HP NewWave soft- development needs requires that we for Software Developers - Leverage ware developers in 1989. We know that first understand your HP NewWave the Opportunities" brochure, PIN delivering solutions to your customers application development plans. If 5959-8205, is a colorful four-page is a very con~plexand difficult process. you have purchased an HP NewWave high-level overview that describes the 1)eveloper Kit, you will soon receive benefits of developing HP NewWave To meet this challenge, we are commit- a survey asking questions about your applications and how you can leverage ted to providing you with the very best unique product development needs. By the highly advanced capabilities of the development software. technical sup- providing us with this information, we HP NewWave environment into your port, and training for your development can create new programs that help mar- own applications. projects. We believe that engineering ket your applications, and also enhance "The HP NewWave Environment - filture versions of the HP NewWave excellence. satisfying developer needs, The Software Developers' Opportu- environment to keep your HP NewWave and forming strong business partner- nity,'' videotape, PIN S-1071, is an applications at the leading edge of ships with the software development exciting 20-minute videotape that technology. community are key ingredients that will quickly provides a basic understand- enable you to leapfrog competition in ing of the benefits of developing 7b help you better understand the capa- the coming year. HP NewWave applications. bilities and benefits of HP NewWave Developer Products, we offer three new Contact your HP representative for marketing communications products. more information on the HP NewWave environment or for copies of the liter- The "HP NewWave Environment ature and videotape mentioned above. General Information Manual for Soft- I ware Developers," PIN 5954-9517, 1 I is a comprehensive manual that presents a technical overview of the HP NewWave environment. Written from the perspective of a software developer, this document describes the process and benefits of developing. - the HP NewWave applications. APRIL 1989 HP Chatrnrls Generul Cornpaq DeskPro 386120* Procmon/V and Compaq Portable 386 Transform/V Compaq DeskPro 386125 1 Special discounts on obsolescence Compaq DeskPro 3861s Compaq DeskPro 286* On November 1, 1989, ProcmonIV and Note: Expanded memory cards must TransformIV will be removed from the meet the LIM 3.2 specification. The HP Price List and will begin the five- AST Rampage AT EMS card was year obsolescence cycle. Software installed during testing. Other EMS 1 and HP AUBASE support for both products will remain cards may work. For StarLAN net- available until November 1994. During works, the most current revision November 1989 through November (60003) is recommended. Significant discounts are available 1994, these products will be available to users who previously purchased on the master installation tapes (MIT). Key features HP VisorIV and now wish to move up to HP ALLBASEIQUERY (HP's new Now is a good time for you to review Transparent disk and file sharing query management facility). Discounts your present and future business needs ' Transparent printer and plotter can also be obtained if you or your to select a software development and sharing and spooling customers purchase the HP ALLBASEI maintenance methodology that is com- PC application support and integrated 4GL Relational Environment Bundle. patible with your future growth plans. solutions such as HP ACCESS, HP offers a broad range of fourth- AdvanceMail, and Business System If some of your customers previously generation software development tools Plus purchased HP VisorIV and now intend for you to consider. to upgrade to HP ALLBASEIQUERY ' Use with both HP 3000 and HP PC on MPE XL, then please advise them servers that they can obtain a full rebate of the original purchase price for HP VisorIV. NetBIOS support for selected Any items that have been created and applications saved with HP Visor are fully compati- Terminal access and file transfer from ble with HP ALLBASEIQUERY. It is family now supports PC to HP 3000, HP 9000 Series 300 planned that HP VisorIV (PIN 32425) and 800, HP 1000, and DEC VAX will be matured beginning May 1, 1989. Compaq PCs hosts. The support life of HP VisorIV is five years. HP's OfficeShare family of network software products now includes support *HP SERIAL rloc ~upportrdto HP 3000 1 Discounts are also available to cus- for selected models of Compaq per- tomers who purchase HP ALLBASEI sonal computers as user workstations. 4GL, HP ALLBASEIQUERY, and Compaq PC users can access HP ALLBASE for their HP 9000 OfficeShare user services by running Series 800 system. These products Rev ision B.OO.OX. make up the HP ALLBASE Relational Environment bundle - a close-knit Supported Compaq PCs family of products centered around the HP ALLBASEISQL part of the HP ' Compaq Portable I1 ALLBASE DBMS. The HP ALLBASE ' Compaq Portable I11 Relational Environment bundle is priced about 15% less then the total for Compaq DeskPro 386/16* the three independent products. To secure these discounts, please con- tact your HP representative. HP CHANNELS E April 1989 General BASIC 5.13 now shipping We have recently discovered defects in HP BASIC-IJX (also known as Rocky Other HP-UX benefits, such as high- BASIC that we are repairing and are Mountain BASIC on HP-UX) is now resolution graphics, floating-point planning a new BASIC 5.13 release. All shipping. HP BASIC-UX provides the accelerator, databases, "full" VME users on support services will receive a user with a multitasking, networked, support, and DOS software, will now copy of BASIC 5.13. HP has committed windowed Rocky Mountain BASIC tle available to the Rocky Mountain to shipping BASIC 5.13 updates to users workstation. HP BASIC-UX provides IlASIC user under HP-UX. in May 1989. the existing functionality of HP BASIC on top of HP-UX. In addition, the HP-UX diskless work- All users who have 68030-based prod- station will satisfy many of the con- ucts (that is, HP 9000 Models 370, 360, HP BASIC-IJX is positioned as the cerns that HP BASIC users have had. 340, and 332) require the 5.13 version high-end offering in the Rocky Some of the benefits of the diskless of BASIC to run properly. Mountain BASIC product family. workstation include centralized system HP BASIC-UX also provides current administration and security, lower cost. Here are descriptions of five of the HP BASIC users with a migration path simplified system booting and opera- defects : from their existing HP 9000 Series 300 tions over LAN, global clock synchro- systems to future hardware and software r ization for all workstations tied to a ' In some cases, BASIC 5.11 does not products offcred by HP. single server, and protection against work properly with 68030-based harsh environments. hardware when run with compiled The existing HP BASIC environment is code. BASIC 5.11 sets up the 68030 maintained while offering the followir~g HP BASIC-UX is LOADISTORE com- internal data cache in a way that could additional benefits of the HP-UX oper- ~'atiblewith all HP BASIC (Version 5.1 cause code produced by the BASIC ating system: and later) statements.