What is a HP 98029A Resource Management Interface?

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Mon Feb 10 17:30:00 2003

Innfogra_at_aol.com wrote:
> It works with the HP 9825, 9835 & 9845 series of computers from the early
> 1980s. On the other end is an Amphenol 50 pin female connector, similar to
> early SCSI 1 connectors.

WAG from the name: it's a widget to connect a 98x5 into an HP Shared
Resource Management (SRM) network. I vaguely recall that there was a
coaxial SRM bus cable, and some SRM interfaces had the BNC connector
for the bus cable while others had a 50-pin Amphenol connector and
expected to have a transceiver-like device between the Amphenol connector
and the coax.

I've read about this stuff in manuals, but never used it or even seen
it in use. And I didn't know you could hook a 98x5 up to it, my
readings about it have been in the context of HP9000 series 200 and
300 systems.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Mon Feb 10 2003 - 17:30:00 GMT