Hewlett Packard A2094 Monitor (Standard RGB ?)

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon Dec 13 09:44:04 1999

It might be well to consider that the place that had these HP units and
still has the monitors, is a retailer of surplus electronics. What's more,
he's located in the Denver metro area.

Almost all this stuff came from Martin Marietta from the period when they
were disposing of lots of hardware prior to being bought up by Lockheed.
The fact that they were prone to BUY this kind of stuff is one of many
examples available of the type of behavior which put them in the position to
be taken over by Lockheed. This HP stuff never worked properly during the
time I was there. It was mostly software trouble, but it never did work
well enough that I was able to use it without having to use my PC to do the
"real" work. HP got into CAE in '88 when they bought Apollo, and announced
it was getting out in '91, leaving everyone who'd bought their
hardware/software in the lurch. Meanwhile, Martin promoted and/or paid
bonuses to the fools who had bought in to the previously unheard-of and
inexperienced CAE/CAD vendor HP turned out to be.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey l Kaneko <jeff.kaneko_at_juno.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, December 13, 1999 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: Hewlett Packard A2094 Monitor (Standard RGB ?)


>
>
>On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:15:10 -0500 "Phil Clayton"
><musicman38_at_mindspring.com> writes:
>>
>> >One fellow who bought a half dozen of these workstations put them
>> >in his pickup, opened the boxes up, took out the memory (apparently
>and odd
>> >flavor), then drove over to the dumpster and tossed the
>workstations/servers
>> >in the dumpster and left.
>>
>>
>> I ended up with 5 of these HP Apollo 400's.. In each of them I found a
>230
>> MB SCSI Hard Drive, a 68040 Processor, and an 8 or 16 MB 72pin Simm in
>each.
>> After I remove the 3 components I will discard the remaining cases..
>
>I hate living in this part of the world. You almost never see
>opportunities
>like this here on the plains. . . .
>
>> But first I am going to hook up the 19 inch HP monitor to one of
>Apollo's
>> just to see what happens, enjoy the event and them toss that nice Very
>> Expensive (Original Cost) monitor out with the rest of the stuff..
>>
>> Phil..
>
>Actually, depending on the model, these things can run NetBSD or OpenBSD.
>If they're set up for DomainOS, OTOH, they're probably more trouble than
>they're worth . . . .
>
>
>Jeff
>
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Received on Mon Dec 13 1999 - 09:44:04 GMT

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