Any idea what the power rating is, or what the normal-use wattage drain
is?

On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 12:14, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
> 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
> 
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