On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:34:57AM +0000, Harald Husemann wrote:
> I just 'won' an old HP Apollo 700 Series, Model 735/125.
1. The "Apollo" in the name is only the fart of a marketing droid.
Apollo was long gone and dead when this machine was build.
The more correct name for this thing is HP 9000 735/125.
It is a HP PA-RISC 7100, 125 MHz based machine, not M68k as the
Apollos. It is a nice machine and the PA-RISC CPUs have a lot of
bang for the MHz. You can run HP-UX, NetBSD or Linux on it:
http://www.parisc-linux.org/
http://www.debian.org/ports/hppa/
NetBSD, the OS of my choice, is on the way, but not that far as Linux:
http://www.de.netbsd.org/Ports/hp700/
> - Anyone has a PIN-layout for the monitor cable? I know that I have to solder
> red to red VGA, red ground to red ground, and so on, but I don't know the
> pinout of the VGA connector...
http://www.hardwarebook.net/
more precise:
http://www.hardwarebook.net/connector/av/vga15.html
> - Can I use a standard PC keyboard with the Apollo? It just has a so-called
> "HPIL"-connector on the back, and I don't have such a keyboard...
You need a special HP-HIL keyboard and mouse. HP-HIL is a desktop bus
like ADB or USB. The original Apollo keyboards will not fit as they
are not HP-HIL and the 735/125 has no Apollo keyboard connector
(7 pin DIN) like the late HP 9000 300 (400) M68k machines.
> - My Apollo doesn't have a standard LAN-connector, just an AUI...
Get a transceiver from epay or your favorite hardware dealer.
BTW: AUI is a standard LAN-connector. ;-)
> it has a EISA slot, and the manual told me that EISA is fully compliat to
> ISA (didn't know this before...). So, can I just equip the Apollo with one
> of my old ISA Novell/ Eagle-cards?
PeeCee junk in a precious machine like that, what a disgusting thought. ;-)
> There's an EISA card in the slot, but
> this seems to be a Token Ring (it's called a "Ring" card)
What connector does it have? 7W2?
> Harald (bofh_at_dh9dat.de)
Ahhh, Germanien. dh9dat? Funker?
Ich hab einige HIL Tastaturen über. Da würde ich dir u.U. duchaus eine
für einen kleinen Obulus abgeben...
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tschüß,
Jochen
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Received on Wed Oct 09 2002 - 04:06:01 BST