On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:26:44PM -0800, Stan Sieler wrote:
>
> Some old HP 3000/9xx models had CIO bus: 925, 935, 950, 955, 960, 980.
> (Possibly 930, too)
>
Good to know, I'll look out for those. When (IF) I find one I have to learn
MPE though.. I've only ever seen three 3000-series machines, one was a
micro 98 or something like that and one was one of the saddest computers
I've ever seen. It used to hold a library application until it was obsoleted.
The disks were destroyed in the name of security but apparently the person
assigned to doing this dirty deed got a bit carried away and removed
*every single card* in the machine and either broke them in half or hit
a screwdriver through the chips.
It must have taken a long time because the destruction was very thorough.
The only thing that wasn't broken was the rack and I'm sure they tried to
break that too. After all, it could have been magically holding all the
secret data via transdimensional submagnetic resonance. I think the pieces
are still gathering cobwebs..
I can understand destroying the disks (barely..) but that was just too much.
> > 3. Is the HP 7970 tape drive vacuum column or one of these newer streaming
> > devices (like the 7974A).
>
> No...Hp 7970 is real old. No vacuum, no streaming.
>
OK, I just checked from www.sieler.com/hpdisk.txt that there were
two models, E and B. I have a 7974A and a 7979A but is the 7978
similar (physically) to a 7979A ?
Does anybody have any pictures of the 7970 models ?
> A 6xx might be a special marketing version of an 8xx computer, but I
> can't recall for sure.
>
> Here are three 9000 6xx models (from /usr/lib/sched.models on HP-UX),
> all are PA-RISC 1.0:
> 600
> 635
> 645
They seem to be pretty rare. I'll have to start looking.
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