FW: HP2000/Access - benchmarks

From: John K. <john3000_at_cox.net>
Date: Sun Jan 25 20:20:45 2004

At 2004-01-23 11:24 PM, Jay West wrote:
> > Yes, GMU had an HP 2000 ACCESS system with 21MX-E processors,
>
>Are you sure it was 21MX-E and not 21MX-M? Just curious!

Positive. There were two 21MX-E processors in our system.

Once or twice we had problems where HP would replace a process with a
"loaner" while they checked out a possible hardware problem. On those
occasions, they will replace the 21MX-E with a 2100 processor. I don't
believe that both processors were replaced, but only one. I can't remember
whether the temporary configuration was 21MX-E system processor and 2100
I/O processor, or 2100 I/O processor and 21MX-E processor.

> I was the system manager for the GMU HP 2000 from its delivery in August,
> > 1978 until I left GMU in January, 1984
>
>If you are ever in St. Louis, stop by and you can reminisce and boot Access
>up :)

I'd love to!


> > If I remember correctly, a
> > disc diagnostic/utility program (which I think was called SLUTH) was used
> > to configure the drive.
>
>I have seen mention of a program called SLUTH for disc drives, but my
>impression was that it was a 3rd party program, not HP. HP always wanted you
>to use their diagnostics to format the drive (plus, Access can format a pack
>all by itself).

In thinking about this a bit, I seem to remember us having an odd problem
with the 7920 on the HP 2000, and so the HP CE came in on a Saturday (we
didn't run production on our HP 3000 at the time), and he "borrowed" the
7920 from the HP 3000 and put it on the HP 2000 to see if it would exhibit
the same problem. As Ed Sharpe mentioned, SLUTH was for the HP 3000, and
what I probably remember was the CE using SLUTH to format the HP 3000's
7920 when he was done with the HP 2000 testing. The first few months we
had our HP 2000 ACCESS we had a variety of strange hardware problems, but
by the time the system was 6 or so months old, HP had found and fixed all
the problems.

John
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