New stuff (HP9000)

From: Pete Rickard <pete.rickard_at_carlingtech.com>
Date: Tue Aug 14 08:43:01 2001

Hello, group-

This is my first posting (I'm on SurvPC primarily).... I found the list
during a google search for *HP-UX*, trying to find other HP9000
series users. Glad to have found this group, if for no other good reason
than to be able to point to someone else when *normal* people come to
my house and remark, "Gad! What a massive pile of old junk down here!"

My own HP model 540 still has *OLD* HP-UX 5.-something on it. It also
has compilers for Pascal, ForTran and 'c' (of course). It was the host
to an '80s GrafTek GMS CAD system, 12+ users, from which I also
saved a Meteor II workstation (including a Summagraphics Bit Pad 2 tablet
and a huge Hitachi HM4119, EIA RS-343A compatible monitor).

I've not much to offer except that I have quite a bit of mid-80's HP
docs on this system... anyway, most hardware that I saved is as follows:

HP 9050A - The basic unit, 8Mb RAM, 2x8 multiplexers, IOP (2) CPU's, etc.**
HP 9144A - DC cartridge drive, works as emergency boot system (if lucky)
HP 7914 - Hard disk drive, 128Mb, original in 1985
HP 7958 - Hard disk drive, 130+Mb "compact" (the root disk)
HP 7974A - 9 track tape drive (the 'Man from U.N.C.L.E.' drive,
as my big brother refers to it :-)
HP 2934 - Dot-matrix printer (HP-IB) on top of its original cabinet
HP 2392A - System console, green-on-black screen (saved 2 of these!)
**includes 27125A LAN card CIO 802.3 (10mbps) BNC (there were
two networked 9000's) and 28641A ThinLAN micro-MAU (RG58C/U),
IEEE 802.3 spec...(throwing all the specs in there to anticipate queries...)

-I could use an HP-IB floppy drive I suppose, if one happens along...


Oh, BTW- here at work I use an iMac connected to our DEC Alpha using
VersaTerm PRO terminal emulator. Login message includes this:
"OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version V7.1-2"

Regards, -Pete

<jarkko.teppo_at_er-grp.com> wrote in part:
> A reasonable weekend:
> - - HP 9000/834 + 7959 disk with HP-UX 8.x.
> Interestingly the 834 case is the same as the 9000/550 case.




"640k ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981
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Pete Rickard
Product Engineer
Carling Technologies
Plainville CT USA
Received on Tue Aug 14 2001 - 08:43:01 BST