This week had a fine start. I walked into a little computer shop which has
trays of old ISA cards and sometimes odd equipment which I can buy cheaply.
This monday, they had a slightly familiar-looking box on top of a large
shipment of PCs. A HP 9000/300! When I asked them what it would cost, they
were surprised that they could even charge money for it, and let me have it
for 50 crowns. My pleasure. Once I had bought it, though, I though that
9000/300 was a suspiciously low number. Wasn't that some kind of 68010 based
machine? And why would such a machine have two Ethernet NICs? It really semed
like a waste, but on the underground ride how, I pulled out the big board with
all the ports, which seemed notably shinier and newer than the NIC above, and
found that it had a 68040. I thus deducted that it must be a 9000/380. Has
this machine been upgraded, or did HP simply not bother to identify their
machines any closer than the series (in this case 9000/300)?
In any case, it came without keyboard, and I read that in order to switch it
over to serial terminal mode, one would have to perform a certain manoeuvre
via the keyboard. Bloody well thought out, HP! Is there no way to use a serial
terminal without any HIL keyboard involved?
The machine starts up and beeps a little. It's got not drives installed, but
there's a 50-pin "Centronics" connector marked SCSI/FS-HPIB. What is FS-HPIB?
Doesn't sound like anything I'd like to feed into my SCSI devices.
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
A Spanish MSX Group "Matra" visited to this Fair. I lent Spanish stand to
them. They showed and did Promotion play of SEX BOMB BUNNY. And this Game has
tema song of Majingar-Z! Why they know Japanese TV animation?
K. Ikeda, MSX-Print
Received on Wed May 16 2001 - 18:49:25 BST