20 Jun
2024
20 Jun
'24
12:01 a.m.
I have a new-in-box (but twenty-year-old) HP C8000 workstation (HP
Precision Architecture). The box contains an HP-UX license certificate,
entitling me to copy and install HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11) TCOE (Technical
Computing Operating Environment) for use on the machine. Unfortunately I
don't have 11i v1 install media. Unfortunately the license entitlement is
not sufficient to be able to get a copy from HPE, because they no longer
support HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11), nor the C8000 workstation, and even when they
did, you had to have a subscription to get the support and buy media or
download images.
I'm hoping that someone here might have such media, and be willing to sell
me a media set, or copies or ISO/UDF images. (They have to be "real" ripped
images, not a rebuild using typical burner software that builds a new
ISO/UDF image out of gathered files.)
Ideally, the disks I want are AFAIK the final 11i v1 disks::
p/n B6821-10057 HP-UX 11i TCOE DVD from December 2006
p/n B6845-10052 HP-UX 11i MTOE DVD from December 2006 (MTOE is a subset of
TCOE)
p/n 5014-1459 HP-UX 11i Applications DVD from September 2009
p/n B3921-10061 HP-UX 11i Instant Invo CD from September 2009
p/n 5013-8893 HP-UX 11i Support Plus from December 2008
p/n DV500-10026 HP-UX 11i IUX DVD from 2005 or 2006
However, I can't be that picky. I'd settle for ANY edition of those titles,
earlier or later, or the equivalent CD sets instead of the DVDs, as long as
it is HP-UL 11i, and not 11.00, 11i v2, or 11i v3. As far as I've been able
to determine, the C8000 can run any release of 11i v1, but can't run 10.20
or 11.00. It _might_ be able to run 11i v2 or v3 without graphics support,
but I'd really like the graphics to work.
If anyone can help me out, please get in touch! Thank you!
This is ultimately part of a project to come up with a replacement
processing system for the HP 16700 family logic analyzers, which are based
on a 150 MHz PA-7300LC. Ultimately I'm hoping to control the logic
analayzer acquisition modules from a non-PA-RISC processor (e.g., x86), but
I want to tackle this in smaller steps, like making the software run on a
newer PA-RISC processor (the PA-8900 in the C8000). It's much easier to
start with a processor that at least has the same architecture, rather than
having to jump immediately into binary translation.
Not to mention that it would just be nice to have the C8000 working at all.
I have the p/n 5990-7398 Dcoumentation Library CD for HP Workstation C8000
from May 2004, and the p/n 5991-5986 HP9000 Offline Diagnostics Environment
PA0712 from December 2007, if anyone needs copies of those. (The Offline
Diagnostics Environment disc says "Valid license required".
Best regards,
Eric