19 Aug
2012
19 Aug
'12
6:35 p.m.
I have an HP
9000/350 and it boots from a hard disk connected over HP-IB
into HP-UX. They are very nice machines.
NetBSD has an hp300 port, but for historical purposes I prefer to run
HP-UX. You can run up to 9.x on them (10.0 required PA-RISC).
I tried to put together a full system in 2000, but wacky willies was
asking $50 US for the GPIB hard disk.
That now seems pretty cheap.Unless you're trying to sell it. The system contains 4 MB on a mezzanine and 2 X 1 MB
cards. It looks
like it was used for something interesting,
It also contains a floating point board. Is that useful in a 030 setup?
Yes. The '030 has an integrated MMU, not an FPU. So a 68881/2 would have
been particularly handy for a workstation.
Unfortunately, No SCSI or other I/O
Mine just has HP-IB, and I don't know it would boot from a SCSI card anyway.
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