,(e~pp-;~,i.[~~si.~g~~>~Ps, i::E?$JSL[ZTlE3 REPNHARDfc HELMUT FRANKFURT Vol. 3, NO. 13 DTD Introduces the 2647A Intelligent Graphics Terminal Volume 3, Number 13, May 15, 1978 ,Q73 HP Computer Museum www.hpmuseum.net For research and education purposes only. DTD Introduces the 2647A lntelliaentw Graphics Terminal ............... Page 8 World-Wide CSG Area Manager's Meeting a Great Success ....... Page 21 Sales Aids Add Sex Appeal to Your Presentations ... L. HartgeIGSD [14] DDP Success Stories to "CARE" For You ............................... L. HartgeIGSD [14] Distributed Systems Survey ............... J. EppsIGSD [15] BOISE NEWS Series I Brochure ........................J. EppsiGSD [16] Product News DSI3000 to DSl1000 Demo Package ..... M. BrawnlGSD [16] How Many RS-232C Interfaces Eight DSl3000 Contributions to the Are There? .......................... L. AndrewsIBoise [ 31 State-of-the-Art in Commercial DDP ...... L. HartgelGSD [16] 263X With DVRO5 ...................... S. DavisIBoise [ 31 Extra! Extra! Read All About It! ...........B. KlaasIGSD [17] Order Processing CSD NEWS So These Are the People Who've Been Computer Supplies Program "Ordering" You Around ................ S. BradleylGSD [18] Coordinated Marketing of Supplies for General News HP Computing Products .............. C. AndersonICSD [ 41 Get on the PR Bandwagon! ............... R. HuntiGSD [18] DSD NEWS Product News New HP-IB Application Note: AN 201-7 .... H. ColeIDSD [ 51 Multipoint Performs .......................T. FieldlDSD [ 51 Sales Aids HPG NEWS NPT Tour 35mm Slide Presentation ..... R. UeltzenIDSD [ 61 Sales Aids DSD NPT Tour.. ......................R. UeltzenlDSD [ 61 Terminal Specialist Kit (Second Part) ..... M. PoizatiHPG [19] New Applications Sales Literature Obsolescence.. ..........J. WilleWHPG [20] 2240 Hero Gets Kudos from MACS Lab ... P. PalmIDSD [ 71 DTD NEWS Division News Introducing the 2647A Intelligent Graphics Terminal ...................R. FergusonIDTD [ 81 Order Proceaaing 2647A Data Comm Ordering ............... L. RothIDTD [I I] CSG NEWS Sales Aids CSG News Here's Looking At You ...With World-Wide CSG Area Manager's Meeting A New Monitor.. .........................B. SwiftiDTD [12] A Great Success ......................D. ChancelCSG [21] The 264X Is Not a Chameleon! ..........M. PoizatiHPG [12] All Shook Up! ....................... C. ScheifelelCSG [22] Computer Products Purchase Agreement: GSD NEWS Changes, Additions, Clarifications ...... W. ReicherVCSG [22] Product News CSG Sales Training Hosts Largest-Ever Series I Supports 21 2A Modem Graduation Dinner ..................... 0. LindsayICSG [22] In Place of 202C.. ................... J. JacobsonlGSD [13] YHP News Contributed PASCAL Compiler for the Report of OEM Pre-Sales Seminar HP 3000.. ...........................T. PohlmanIGSD [13] In Japan ........................... Y. MineyamalYHP [23] Volume 3. Number 13. May 15. 1978 2 FOL~NICI!Z'?Nh%L kJSE CBdL,'Y 2631 A-051 2635A-051 This Interface is internally identical to option 041, the only difference being the rear connec- tor. This option includes a 2640-type edge connector instead of the more familiar 25-pin EIA RS232 type connector. The additional con- tacts (and the non-EIA standard configuration) How Many RS-232C Interfaces Are There? allow the terminal's internal clock to be output, By. Larry AndrewslBo~se as well as an external clock to be input without hardware modif~cat~on.Many 21XX terminal in- If you're talking about the 2630 family the answer is three. terface boards require thls configuration There's a simple verslon for use wlth full-duplex modems, (12966AlDVR05, 12880NDVR00). The con- and two verslons with 202-type half-duplex modem control. nector emulates a 13260NB and therefore can The simple version IS standard on the 2635A and IS be used with many DTD cables. optlon 040 to the 2631 A. The other two are options 041 and 051 to both the 2631A and 2635A. The Hopefully, this explanation reduces some of the confusion description of each. about the three versions of RS-232 offered on the 2630 family 2635A-STD 263X With DVR05 2631A-040 Works wlth full-duplex modems and most By: Steve DavislBo~se hardwired applications. Some customers who are using their 2631A12635A on RTE Other characteristics: with DVR05 have complained about receiving unwanted 1. Checks for parity; passes 7 blts of data to linefeeds when printing data. the printer. This renders 8th-blt-character-set- e select unusable. This problem IS especially apparent when a VFC command 2. Unit does not operate with front panel baud is issued. For Instance, if the customer's program transmits rate switch in EXT ~osition. an escape sequence commanding the 263X to slew to VFC channel 6 (next half page), the 263X will react by slewing to the next half page PLUS ONE LINE! 2631 A-041 2635A-041 Includes all capabilities of simple interface WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN? plus 202-type half-duplex modem control. Other characteristics: It happens because DVR05 automatically transmits a LF character at the end of each l~neof data. However, 1. Passing-8th-bit is selectable by a switch on transmission of the LF will be suppressed if an underscore the intertace board character (octal 137) is inserted as the last character before 2. When the front panel baud rate switch is set each carriage return. (The underscore will not be printed.) to EXT, several (15) baud rates can be selected by a 4-pole D.I.P. switch on the inter- So, if one of your customer's 263X's is having this problem, face board. The 16th position allows an exter- the insertion of an underscore at the end of each line will nal clock to be used. cure it. Volume 3, Number 13, May 15, 1978 San Dieyo Division (SDD 11) plotter pens and papers Computer Service Division (CSD-50) r~glddiscs, pus newer supply Items for Computer Group products start wlth FY 78 Corporate Parts Center (CPC-15) most other Items PCE n Boebl~nqenhandles all computer supply Items for the 8 Coordinated Marketing of Supplies above. in ~urope For HP Computing Products By Carl Anderson CSD There's a new program underway to help coordinate the CSD Supplies moves to Mt. View marketlng of "Suppl~esfor HP Computlng Products wh~ch will result in another useful sales tool for f~elduse Effect~ve1 May that portlon of CSD concerned w~ththe Computer Suppl~esProgram has physcally moved to the The Computer Suppiles program reports to CSG via the same Mt View faclllty which houses CPC Thls close Computer Serv~ceD~v~son and ~tIS worklng closely prox~mitymakes ~tposslble for CSD Supplles to take advan- and cooperat~velywith the Calculator Group and the San tage of the excellent CPC shpping services and ~tfacl- Diego Dlvls~onof the Instrument Group ltates closer coord~nat~onof 'he suppl~esprogram through both HP entltes The reason qulte s~mply1s that HP needs to have a un~fied suppl~esmarketlng program wh~chIS useful to both the CSD Supplles w~llcont~nue to handle orders and Inventory Computer (02) and Calculator (06) sales forces After all an control separately from CPC Orders for CSD Supply Items Increasing number of ldent~calperipherals (and related should contnue to be d~rectedto COMSYS HEART locatron supply items) are beng used by customers served by both 5005 which will automat~callybe rece~vedby CSD In sales forces And In the flnal analysls a broad-n-scope Mt Vew (all transmlsslons d~rectedto 50XX locations other supplles program 1s h~ghlycomplementary to HP s positlon than '05 will be rece~vedat the main CSD locatlon In e as a preferred vendor offerng a broad range of compu- Cupert~no) tatlonal product solutons I Who's on the Computer Supplies team? What are "computer supplies"? The team presently conslsts or three people Carl Anderson Broadly speak~ng they are deflned as anyth~nywh~ch our IS rsspons~blefor coordlnatny the overall Computer Sup- customers need and personally use In operating an HP plies market~ngprogram He IS ably ass~stedby Alex Kozera Computlng Product Magnet~cmedla such as dscs tape who addtionally looks spec~f~callyafter CSD Suppiles and mlnlcartr~dges consumables such as paper prod- I Betty S:ever~son IS In charge of CSD Supplles order pro- ucts prlnt heads and pr~nterr~bbons operator man- cesslng and Inventory control You can reach them via tenance Items and certa~nlow-ticket accessories all fall COMSYS locatlon 5005 or by IWt View telephone (415) wrthln thls deflnlt~on 968-9200 - extensions 302 (Carl) 306 (Alex) and 307 (Betty Where are the distribution points? Most computer supply Items are presently ordered from and If you have comments or suuoest~onsregardfng the pro- - \, dstrlbuted by three HP ent~tesIn the U S gram, please let us hear frorn you Volume 3 Number 13 May 15 1978 4 (I J jE (0.5 _'"' COMPUTER SVSTSMS NEWSLETTER Multipoint Performs! By: Todd FleldIDSD New HP-IB Application Note: AN 201 -7 Recently, SE support at Data Systems was involved in an By: Holly ColelDSD application which showed off RTE-IV and Multipoint. A customer had a prototype repairman dispatch system already working on RTE-Ill using twelve terminals. The customer wanted to use the system In all their dispatch A while ago, we published AN 201 -4: "Performance Evalu- centers, but the number of terminals needed at each center ation of the HP-IB Using RTE Operating Systems". This ranged from six to over thirty. Also, dispatch centers would application note told how to calculate the measurement be located remotely from the computer installation, and speed of various instruments and unused CPU potential several small dispatch centers would share each computer. when using the general purpose HP-IB Driver, DVR 37. THE PROBLEM: Could the HP 1000 handle the expected transaction volume from 30 disoatchers? The general purpose driver solved most HP-IB problems. However, a few of vou still had some customers who desired THE POTENTIAL SOLUTION: RTE-IV, MULTIPOINT, more speed with some specific instruments.