5 Jun
2003
5 Jun
'03
6:27 a.m.
Hi Peter,
Hi Joe,
{sorry if this is a little muddled - I just got off a 10 hour flight...}
I picked up a pile (8 of them IIRC) of these things
recently.
I've acquired two of them too. One without keyboard or any other
accessories, the other with keybaord and three rather inportant cables...
The first cable is phono to phono, about 6 inches long and connects the rear
panel HP 9000 audio connector to the audio input on the HP 332 chassis.
The second is a 6 inch HPIL to HPIL connector that jumpers the HP 9000 card
keybaord input to an HPIL socket in the rear panel that just connects
through to a front panel HPIL for the front panel hinged keybaord.
The third cable connects the phono video out from the HP 9000 card to the
'VGA' connector on the rear panel (3 row connector 15 pins). Only four of
the pins in the 'VGA' connector are used. I haven't buzzed it through but
the pins used are 1, 5, 11 and 15 only. HP part number is A1300-60036
Without the video jumper cable in place then the display will only show
retrace lines when the brightness is turned right up - so it can be mistaken
for not working.
They had
been surplused by a large company and the integrated keyboards were
missing. So the surplus company that got them threw them out. BUT the KB
cable runs through the machine then out the back and then plugs back into a
standard HP-HIL keyboard port. So I'm thinking that I can use a standard
HP-HIL keyboard.
Absolutely - I have done htis and it works fine. With the correct
cable you
can also drive the monochrome display from another computer system
I've tried one of the machines and I can't get
a display
on it. I haven't had time to check further and I haven't checke dhte
others.
See my comments above - if you see retrace lines whenq the brightmess is
turned up then it is probably working OK.
I'm pretty certain that these have an internal hard
drive. sorry no
advice on how to use the touch screen.
If you had a spare hard drive thenI'd be
interested. I'm currently booting
my systems off an external harddrive.
Do you know if an external display can be connected to
these? This one
appears to be running but nothing is displayed on the screen. I think it
may have a bad screen.
See my previous comments
I'll have a play with the touch screenand see if I can come up with
something.
Cheers
Peter Brown
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