22 Jun
2005
22 Jun
'05
3:48 p.m.
Any ideas as to what it is, and if it can be made to do something
interesting?
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Sounds like some variant of the 9817 / 9000/210
It sure looks like a 9817, and the backplane has a 09817- part number,
which would indicate that it came from that machine. The mainboard has a
50960- part number, but it's on a stuck-on (HP printed) label, not in the
etch or silk-screen. There doesn't appear to be any other number under
the label, though.
Did either of the 9817 or 9000/210 have ethernet as standard? The
mainboard looks to be laid out for it. There's a 10MHz oscillator can
fitted inside the footprint for what seems to be the ethernet controller
chip, my guess is that if the ethernet stuff was fitted, there was a
10MHz clock available on one of the pins of that.
Of course I have no idea (yet) if the firmware had been changed. At least
it's socketed 28 pin ROM chips...
http://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=7
http://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=120
you'll find some field service manuals hiding under "Product
Documentation"
there
Thanks, I will take a(nother) look.
googling 50960A turns up "200/SRM Server"
SRM is a 700kbit networking scheme which uses the 5096x DIO-I interfaces
There is one of those interfaces in this machine, I think I mentioned it.
Of course I've got nothing to connect it to.
So it was probably the server side box for an SRM network
Presumably it expects normal HP disk units on one of the HPIB buses.
-tony