Greetings all, I am posting this here since there seem to be some HP people on the list and possibly one may know something about these beasts... anyway...
We (we being the University of Wollongong IEEE student branch - see http://ieee.uow.edu.au) were recently given a bunch of obsolete HP Envizex series A X terminals. Opening one up revealed all sorts of interesting things (i960 processor, what looks like a VME bus, a 16 bit stereo sound card and a floppy disk drive!) but unfortunately when connected to standard multisync monitor they caused all sorts of unpleasantness - sync was definitely not happening. I'm guessing that some strange sort of HP fixed-freq monitor is required, or at least a sync separator from one. I also know they don't like Sun monitors, or at least none that I've tried. Anyway, since the IEEE Student Branch has a fairly decent Linux-based network already, I was hoping to find a way to use these for something constructive. As far as I can tell, the chances of actually running Linux on it are zero (maybe OpenBSD but that seems pretty unlikely). Next best thing would be to get HP to donate an old copy of the software for these things, and hopefully give us some info about how to use them with standard PC monitors... I figured the people around here are more likely than anyone else to know anything about these beasts, so any light sheddable would be appreciated. Apologies again for being off-topic. It's not exactly a high-volume list at present. There may well be some HP-PA boxes from where these things came from so I'll probably be back again :-) Thanks, - Daniel -- ****************************************************************************** * Daniel Franklin - Postgraduate student in Electrical Engineering * University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************************
