19 Apr
2005
19 Apr
'05
4:57 a.m.
At 11:18 PM 4/18/05 -0400, you wrote:
Another important question is whether this machine can be made y2k
compliant?
I'm pretty certain that it is, even the HP 9836 (aka 9000 236) was Y2K
compliant. (the battery backup and clock were optional).
I had to replace the 3V lithium coin cell on the main CPU board
and the machine prompted for a date/time upon bootup.
Wouldn't take
anything above 99 so I set it at 95, exactly 10 years in the past. Date
entry is in the form of MMDDhhmm[yy]. When 05 is entered for yy the date
always displays as 1970. Seems 70 to 99 only work.
That's interesting! Maybe it's NOY Y2K compliant. I'll try to look and
see if I have a manual for this machine that covers the clock. What model
exactly is it?
Joe
The EEPROM firmware (chip location U47) on my machine is part number
1818-5062 and *may* be the latest version. Upon startup the machine
announces: "BOOTROM Rev. 2.0 29 Nov 90". I make that version assumption
by believing the firmware upgrade required on this website:
http://www.blobulent.com:16080/hp300/upgrade/hp380.html would be pretty
much the last version released since the webpage had been made some years
after my machine (ca 1991) was made. Looks like we're SOL, but that needs
to be confirmed by the 9000/300 experts out there.
That upgrade to a 380 looks tempting as my machine is just the one they're
talking about. Very simple, except for the compilation of a new kernel in
Step 1. I'm primarily a hardware guy. But, I'd need to use the machine
frequently to really justify messing around with the upgrade.
Thanks for the help again!
Regards, Chris F.
NNNN
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