New toy, HP Apollo 4500, and it's broken...

From: R. Stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Sun Jun 14 19:27:53 1998

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tony Duell wrote:

> Mine doesn't!. The RAM cards are _very_ custom and plug into 0.1" header
> connectors, not SIMM sockets.

My bad. I've never used a 400 and thought I'd vaguely recalled hearing
that they used 72 pin SIMMs. They sound identical to the DN-series RAM
cards, then.

> Yes, standard SCSI disks. But my 425 is a larger box than my DN3500, I
> think...

Hmm. It seems like the 400-series I saw was about half as tall l (in a
desktop orientation) and otherwise similar in size to my DN5500 (which
started out life as a DN3500)

> If I need the Apollo-style one, can I use the one from the DN3500?

Yes.

> The 425 motherboard has a single 16 bit ISA connector on the side. It's a
> very cut-down bus, and AFAIK only the Domain Ring card was supported there.

That is correct.

ok
r.
Received on Sun Jun 14 1998 - 19:27:53 BST