2 Jan
1998
2 Jan
'98
9:24 a.m.
At 09:39 AM 1/2/98 -0800, you wrote:
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
Frank knows his HPs! I know the 200 series pretty well but he's got all
of them down pat.
I went and dug out my 1987 HP catalog. Here's what I found:
The 9820 (9000 220) U and T models and the 9836 (9000 236) U, CT, T and CT
models all use a 68010 CPU running at 12.5 MHz. All other models use a
68000 CPU running at 10 MHz.
"The 220 is a modular rack mountable system with separate monitors,
keyboards and disk drives." and "It is compatable with BASIC 3.0, Pascal
3.0, SRM and single or multi-user HP-UX." <<< This last sentence applies
to all of the 9000 200 series. The 220 also runs HPL even though they don't
state that here. SRM is Shared Resource Manager.
Note: unlike the other computers in this family, the 220 does not have a
98xx number.
The 9000 216 (aka 9816) has a built in monitor (~ 6") and two expansion
slots and a detachable keyboard and a built-in HP_IB and RS-232 intefaces
are built in.
The 9000 226 (aka 9826) has a built-in monitor (~ 6"), attached keyboard
and (I think) 8 expansion slots.
The 9000 236 (aka 9836) has a separate but matching monitor (~ 14") , a
fixed keyboard and six expansion slots.
I will scan some of the catalog pictures and post them to my website.
You can look at them at "http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/hp220.jpg"
after I get them posted later today. Pictures of the other 200 series
computers will be available as "hp9816.jpg", "hp9826.jpg" and
"hp9836.jpg".
FWIW the 9000 Vectra series computers (or some of them anyway) used
80286 CPUs and were MS-DOS compatable.
NOW My turn. Does anyone know exactly what a 9000 217 model is? I found
one but I've neverheard of it before and it's not in any of my catalogs.
Joe
HP 9000's are PA-RISC based UNIX workstations
running HP-UX.
Um, no. Well, if you buy a new one you will get a PA-RISC CPU but
that is not historically true. You need to look at the series number
to figure out what the CPU is:
500 - FOCUS (HP-proprietary 32-bit stack machine)
200 - 680[01]0
300 - 680[1234]0 (I think the 310 was the only 68010-based series 300)
800 - PA-RISC
400 - 68040
700 - PA-RISC
I think these days there is also a Series 600 that is PA-RISC and
a "T500" that is PA-RISC.
Some of these also have HP 9xxx numbers besides the "9000 Series xxx"
designation. If you go back and look at how they were originally
sold, the "HP 9000" was briefly just the FOCUS-based systems, which
eventually became the HP 9000 Series 520, 530, 540, and 550, and I
think I have seen references to the 9000 Series 520 as the "HP 9020".
The HP 9000 Series 226 and 236 were originally sold as the HP 9826 and
HP 9836; I believe there was some sort of upgrade involved for the
9836 that made it capable of running HP-UX (in addition to the
original BASIC, Pascal, and HPL).
-Frank McConnell