Jarkko Hermanni Teppo <jate(a)uwasa.fi> wrote:
I have a couple of HP related questions. I started
thinking about these
while I was scanning all the 9000/500 docs that I have and in HP 27110B
HP-IB card manuals I saw a sentence similar to this "..supported in all
HP computers with CIO bus..".
1. Which machines had the CIO bus ? I know of 9K/550, 520 and at least some
version of the bus in some 800-series machines.
Some (earlier) HP 3000 series 900s too. Of course they are similar hardware
to 9000/800s. If Stan Sieler is reading he can probably say more about this.
2. I know about 200/300/400/500/700/800-series but
what is 9000/600 which
I've seen in a couple of manuals.
I don't remember but think they are PA-RISC-based. I don't remember seeing
much about the series 600s so I suspect it was a marketing thing that didn't
last real long.
3. Is the HP 7970 tape drive vacuum column or one of
these newer streaming
devices (like the 7974A).
None of the above. It's older, non-streaming, and it uses tension arms.
And extra bonus-points for the person who recognizes
the app in the cover
of the HP 9000 550 manual at
http://www.tec.puv.fi/~s99137/kuvat/cover.gif
No idea, but it's interesting to see that the 9000/550 also had the
number 9050.
And a couple of low-quality "recognize the
peripheral"-pics at:
http://www.tec.puv.fi/~s99137/kuvat/uudet/ (none of those are mine, btw.)
Particularly cipher.jpg, HP2000[12].jpg, nauha.jpg, hp3kcons.jpg.
hp20001.jpg is an HP 2114 minicomputer.
hp20002.jpg is a 21MX mini of some sort. I'm away from my manuals so
can't easily tell which series.
hp3kcons.jpg pictures an HP 2647F that was sold with an HP 3000 series
64/68/70 for use as its console. I'm thinking that for about the first year
of shipments of the 3000/64, the 2647F did not have the "hp3000" plate
on the front, just the usual 2647F plate.
--
Jarkko Teppo | Lahjoita HP 7933:n levypakka hyv??n kotiin!
ObUglyAmerican: what are you saying about the 7933?
When I first saw one, in 1982, I thought "wow, it's so big!". Imagine
my surprise when a new cow-orker saw a 7935 at Wollongong in 1995 or
so and said about the same thing. I had been thinking about the
capacity: 404MB was pretty impressive for a washing-machine drive back
in 1982. He was clearly thinking about the size, and comparing it
with 540MB drives then popular in desktop Wintel PCs.
-Frank McConnell