Nekonomicon - New-to-Me HP 9000/375

jan-jaap
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Wrote the following at March 14, 2013, 12:43 a.m...

ClassicHasClass wrote:

Memory is hard to find for those units. I've learned to be satisfied with 16MB (which is still a lot for HP-UX of that generation).

Not my auction. Wrong continent. IMHO quite pricy (price is per stick). Still: http://www.marktplaats.nl/a/computers-e ... 04-56.html

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ClassicHasClass
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Wrote the following at March 14, 2013, 7:34 a.m...

jwp wrote:

ClassicHasClass wrote:

It's 8.0. It seems very happy with that. Some pr0n of Homer (it even came with a Homer Simpson squeeze doll):

http://www.floodgap.com/iv/1572 (full enclosure)
http://www.floodgap.com/iv/1573 ("hinv")
http://www.floodgap.com/iv/1574 (old school X11)
http://www.floodgap.com/iv/1575 ("dmesg" from HP-UX)

Very cool X11 setup! I like that color scheme -- I assume it is the default? Would you mind posting the X resources for mwm, or maybe a screenshot from the machine itself (if that is possible)?

Sure. I'll fire it up this weekend and check. It's just what came on the machine; I don't know if that's HP-UX default of that vintage or not, since I'm this machine's fourth owner (at least).

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smj
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Wrote the following at March 19, 2013, 12:30 p.m...

I think I was stuck in a rut with a saved search on eBay for the 98229D (2x8MB, p/n 98229-66523) kits for some reason - I just did a Google search and found a lot of vendors with the 16MB part 98229-66524 on offer. Two of these make up a 98229E 32MB kit, FWIW.

Best price I saw was US$20 per 16MB board at Serverworlds.com .
Very honorable mention for Pinnacle Micro , who list 4, 8, and 16MB parts at similar prices.
Also making the podium, EZ Systems at $23 per 16MB part.

Other than having just placed an order with ServerWorlds for a couple -66524's, I have no relationship with any of these outfits. Sure it could be cheaper, but this is nothing like what I remembered from the last time I looked...

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ClassicHasClass
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Wrote the following at March 19, 2013, 5:02 p.m...

Oooh. I'll have to look and see what's in mine.

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indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
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bruce , 2x2x2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 8GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...

smj
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Wrote the following at March 25, 2013, 11:12 a.m...

Just received some immaculate 98229-66524 boards from ServerWorlds. Now as soon as the postman delivers a large box of round tuits I'll dig out the hp9k and check them out...

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ClassicHasClass
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Wrote the following at March 25, 2013, 4:38 p.m...

Yes, please let us know! I might grab a couple for my 350.

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:Indy:

indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
probably posted from

bruce , 2x2x2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 8GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...

uridium
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Wrote the following at March 25, 2013, 8:48 p.m...

Beautiful system

I've got a 425 back home at dad's and I recall a larger 040 based system in the late 90's I helped a friend get running. Sadly I think he junked it when he moved to the UK.

I still have media going back to 8.0 for some of my older systems, but does anyone have v5, v6 or "possibly" v6.x that would work on a 9000/310 or 9000/300? I've two with hard+floppy disk systems that have been awaiting software for more than 10 years.

Al.

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smj
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Wrote the following at April 9, 2013, 6:05 p.m...

The 98229-66524's work well enough for the PROM self-test and the system is reporting a mighty, ahem, 75,497,156 bytes (72MB) of RAM with the two 4MB boards installed as well. I only pulled it out to test the RAM before they disappeared into the mulch on my desk, but...

According to the HP Computer Museum I've got a 9000/380 - system board is a 98574-66511 and it's got a 25MHz 68040 sitting in a shim/adapter. Two other boards are the 98549 framebuffer (1024x768x?bpp) and 98626A serial board, and that fills the backplane of he 98574Y enclosure.

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mia
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Wrote the following at April 9, 2013, 6:21 p.m...

smj,

I've used one like this, back in the nineties to draw bode plots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bode_plot .

The one I used was a 9000/320, manufactured in 1985; with interfaces going to different measurement appliances used in filters and antenna design. I can not recall which software was used; but maybe this will sound familiar to one of you.

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