Steven M Jones wrote:
I just received what I believe is an HP 9000/380
(thanks Stan!), details
below.
I've since powered up the machine and it appears to be working just
fine. I believe I skipped over that in responding to a thread about LCD
monitors and output from late 80's and early 90's workstation
framebuffers, but the 380 displays just fine on a 20" Dell LCD monitor
using a HD15 to 3-BNC cable off of eBay.
The current color framebuffer offers 6 bit planes. I'm assuming that
were I to load NetBSD on it, X would immediately fall over. My
experience a few years ago was that dependencies on greater than 8-bit
color had crept into much of the standard distributions...
I haven't secured a disk for it yet, but expect to use a bog standard
SCSI drive. I'd love to find a matching enclosure, but no clue as to
availability. Something that looks similar to the following would do
nicely:
http://60.43.170.188/~handf/picture/hp/hp3801.jpg
Here's the boot screen, just for kicks:
Copyright 1990,
Hewlett-Packard Company.
All Rights Reserved.
BOOTROM Rev. 2.0 29 NOV 90
Bit Mapped Video
MC68040 Processor
Configuration EEPROM
HP-HIL.Keyboard
HP-IB
DMA-C0
RAM 8388292 Bytes
HP98644 (RS-232) at 9
HP98265 (SCSI S 32) at 16
HP98643 (LAN) at 21, AUI, 08:00:09:14:7A:8A
HP PARALLEL at 23
System Search Mode
RESET To Restart