Thanks Marc. What I’ve done is about all I have time for at the moment. Between work and prep’ing for potential fire evacuations (they’re expecting ~300 wild fires in my area this fire season…we’ve only had about 6 so far…so I expect *a lot* more soon) all of my time is gone. :-(
TTFN - Guy > On Aug 15, 2019, at 2:22 PM, Curious Marc via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I found Brent Hilpert’s site most useful in getting a quick meaning for these > numbers: > http://madrona.ca/e/HP21xx/index.html > http://madrona.ca/e/HP21xx/iointerfaces.html > There is also a very useful series 1000 reference manual that lists most of > the configs and options and cards, I will get to it when I am home and try to > send you a link. > > My experience is that you absolutely have to open them up to figure out what > they actually are. They are so modular and upgradable and interchangeable > that the original config sticker rarely matches what’s inside. Actually, I > have yet to see one that has a config that matches the factory sticker. > Sometimes the motherboard isn’t even the series that the front panel says! > > Also you need to find out what optional microcode ROMs they are fitted with > (extended/virtual memory, fast fortran, vector, scientific, etc...) to know > what version of RTE they can actually run, and which boot ROMs are installed. > That said they are very easy to take apart, just open front and back, slide > out top and bottom covers, slide the cards out, and admire the modular > design. They are also very well documented. > > Marc > >> On Aug 12, 2019, at 3:21 PM, Norman Jaffe via cctalk <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Perhaps these will help? >> https://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?hwimg=108 >> http://www.datormuseum.se/computers/hewlett-packard/hp-21mx >> >> >> From: "Guy Sotomayor Jr" <[email protected]> >> To: "myself" <[email protected]>, "cctalk" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2019 3:04:31 PM >> Subject: Re: Identification of an HP minicomputer >> >> It’s a 9-slot variant that says HP-1000 M-Series on the front panel. From >> what I can tell the front panel appears to be the same as any of the other >> HP-1000 series. >> >> What I’m trying to figure out is what the actual CPU configuration is >> without disassembly (which I still need to figure out) so that I can >> actually examine the boards. >> >> Thanks. >> >> TTFN - Guy >> >>> On Aug 12, 2019, at 2:59 PM, Norman Jaffe via cctalk >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Can you provide a picture of the front panel? >>> 2113 implies a 21MX-E; the nine-slot version is a 2109 while the >>> fourteen-slot would be a 2113. >>> This might help - https://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=109 . >>> >>> From: "cctalk" <[email protected]> >>> To: "cctalk" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2019 2:52:18 PM >>> Subject: Identification of an HP minicomputer >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have sitting in my pile of stuff an HP minicomputer that I’m trying to >>> identify (at least in terms of exactly what it is and what sort of >>> configuration it might have). >>> >>> As far as I can tell, it’s an HP-1000 M-Series minicomputer (that should >>> hopefully get us *some* details). The “asset tag” lists the part number as >>> 2113023-108. Looking at the back there’s space for 9 I/O cards (5 are >>> occupied). >>> >>> So my question is which of the several CPUs could this be and how do I tell >>> (for example) what the configuration is (e.g. how much memory, etc). >>> >>> Yes, I have looked on bitsavers, but short of disassembling the box to look >>> at the (at least) 2 boards that are below the I/O slots, I can’t tell >>> what’s there and I’d like to see if there’s a way to determine what this is >>> without resorting to disassembly. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> TTFN - Guy
