Spring cleaning wave

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Wed Apr 28 11:47:21 1999

At 01:52 AM 4/28/99 -0700, Mike wrote:
>Must be a wave of spring cleaning going on,

>Big iron just rolling into the yard, 4 of those baby rack chassis, one a
>MicroVAX II, and the rest each holding 3 or 4 HP 7945 computers all
>daisychained together with that weird HP skinny centronics looking
>connector.

  Sounds like HP-IB connectors. The 7945 is a STRANGE disk drive! It's a
55 Mb hard drive and four removeable 5.12" platter drives.

A monitor, keyboard, and a couple HP mice also present, so I
>assume its a working system. What the heck is it? I looked one or two of
>the 7945 boxes over, and didn't learn much. I think they also said they
>were 9000 series 300,

  The parts marked 9000/300 are the CPUs. Can't tell what exactly they are
without the model number. The model number is marked inside the vents for
the cooling fan in the rear.

but most only had the weird HP connector on the back
>(are they just drives or what?).

   Above.


   Joe
Received on Wed Apr 28 1999 - 11:47:21 BST