17 May
2001
17 May
'01
6:59 p.m.
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:49:25AM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
found that it had a 68040. I thus deducted that it
must be a 9000/380. Has
this machine been upgraded, or did HP simply not bother to identify their
machines any closer than the series (in this case 9000/300)?
If you look how easily you can pull out the board then it actually makes
sense. Just provide a box with DIO-II/I slots and basically you can build
anything from 310 to 380 inside. If the main board looks like this:
http://www.tec.puv.fi/~s99137/kuvat/380takaa2.jpg
http://www.tec.puv.fi/~s99137/kuvat/380takaa.jpg
Then you have a 380. The machine in those crummy pictures has a DIO-I
expansion cab.
In any case, it came without keyboard, and I read that in order to switch it
over to serial terminal mode, one would have to perform a certain manoeuvre
via the keyboard. Bloody well thought out, HP! Is there no way to use a serial
terminal without any HIL keyboard involved?
There might be a way. Start out by removing the framebuffer and then
try some serial magic.
The machine starts up and beeps a little. It's got
not drives installed, but
there's a 50-pin "Centronics" connector marked SCSI/FS-HPIB. What is
FS-HPIB?
Doesn't sound like anything I'd like to feed into my SCSI devices.
The machine can do Fast HP-IB or SCSI from the mainboard. The SCSI connector
goes directly to the main board via a flat cable but the FS-HPIB has some
electronics just behind the connector. I'd guess you have the SCSI-version.
It's a lovely machine btw.
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jht