I went and checked out these machines.... I wanted to take them home, but they wont fit in my car... much less my room. Ill describe them for those that may be interested in them.
The cases if stacked on top of each other are about the size of a filing cabinet. Each computer has: Network, Video, Hard Disks (full height, 1 gig). powersupplys.68040 CPU One machine has 32 megs ram, the other has 80 megs. both are running HP-UX. The each have atleast 1 one gig drive, atleast one has a few 1 gig drives(5 MB/s SCSI (50 pin)) He has 2 extra cases, one of which has lots of spare parts there is 1 20" fixed frequency monitor, but both computers have RGB video and cables for it. They run, look good (but big!) and can be made into a desk (with one comptuer on each side) . He doesnt know the root password for either machine, so a bit of hacking will be required if you use the HP-UX (I think its version 9 or 7, they even come with the install tapes (but no tape drive), and manuals (lots of manuals!) The BIOS date is 1990, but the manuals are from 1986, so Im guessing the macihnes are from somewhere in between 1986 and 1990. I didnt get to do much with them, since we didnt know any password to login, but they do run a gui (X?), and the 20" monitor is sweet (but also very large!). It would be really nice if a LUG member took these things and we could play with them sometime, but alas, I do not have that much space.... Chuck was very helpful, and would probably be able to help if we needed something for them (he knows their entire history... ) Jamie On Friday 29 March 2002 21:16, you wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 05:32:22PM -0800, Larry Price wrote: > >What I know, debian and netbsd ports are available; these are relatively > >muscular machines using a non-pc (risc) architecture. > > 9000s300? Those dudes are 68k based... It's the s700 workstations and > s800 business-class servers that had the HP-PA RISC CPUs in them. > > I guess it depends on what you mean by "muscular". The 380 was, I believe, > the last of the s300 machines and had a 50MHz 68040 CPU in it. They were > pretty hot machines back in the '80s, but 5 year old PCs pretty much kick > it's butt... > > If by "muscular" you mean "big and heavy and will give you a workout if you > have to move it", I'd have to agree. ;-) > > Sean
