HP 9000/236

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Sun Jul 25 18:54:18 1999

At 05:52 PM 7/25/99 -0000, Tom wrote:
>>How hard should I be kicking myself for not snagging an HP 9000/236 for $30
>>at a hamfest in Timonium, MD? Did any of the other folks on this list pick
>>it up?
>
>I've been wondering the same thing. I passed on it, too. I talked to
>the guy, though, and he said it couldn't boot completely and needed the
>OS.

   FWIW. The 9826 and all the other 9000 200 operating systems could be
disk based, ROM based (on plug in cards) or loaded from a file server
(Shared Resource Manager). You could also have more than one OS and choose
the one that you wanted at boot time. If you find any 9000 200 with the
ROM based OS for that kind of money I'd say grab it. I have a couple of
BASIC cards and I'd love to find some HPL and Pascal ones.

  Also it's common for 9000 200s not to boot completely due to people
pulling the memory cards and leaving "holes" in the memory. This causes
the system to generate an error message and/or sometimes hang up.

  FWIW These systems and their software are completely different from
anything else and you won't be able to configure or run them without a good
set of documentation. If you're remotely interested in these, don't miss
any opportunity to grab any available documentation.

   Joe
Received on Sun Jul 25 1999 - 18:54:18 BST