1 Jan
1998
1 Jan
'98
4:51 p.m.
A friend of mine dumped a small,
meant-to-be-rack-mounted box that is
marked as a Hewlett Packard 9000 220, (model 9920-A). It has several cards
inside including a composite video car, a color output card, and one
meant for the keyboard. I tried to find out something about it but haven't
gotten very far, there were a few references to the auxiliary cards in
articles posted on comp.sys.hp.hardware. It appears to be a 286 workstation
maybe, and will boot, but I can't make out the prompts, since it won't sync
on the only composite monitor I have with BNC input.
Can anyone shed some light on this thing and what cann be done with it?
HP 9000's are PA-RISC based UNIX workstations running HP-UX. It probably
wants an HP monitor. I've seen Sun keyboards used on them, but am not sure
if a special mod is required for this.
Zane
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