On Oct 15, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Really? I'm amazed that made any kind of financial
sense; 'real' Apollos weren't exactly widespread, and the cost of design /
tooling / training / marketing surely negated what few sales they likely made. Why not
just offer a discount on a regular 700-series system?
Nevertheless. I thought I had an upgrade kit installation instructions manual but it's
not in my inventory so either I imagined it or I haven't found it since starting
keeping inventory. At the very least the upgrades are explicitly mentioned in the HP-UX
Workstation HCL (14th ed.), as there are a few hardware options which are only supported
in the upgraded workstation, and not in the "real" one.
Mechanically it's (they're) more divergent from the actual 715 than I remembered;
the cutout for the Domain keyboard seems to be retained (on the 715t only), but I think
there's nothing behind it. It also has a DIO-II format SGC slot (and may have an ISA
slot instead of an EISA one? weird.)
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Model 715t (Upgraded Model 425t or 433t)
The Model 715t is a single-processor deskside workstation upgraded from an MC68040-based
Model 425t or 433t. The upgrade kit is discontinued. The Model 715t is not similar to any
standard (as-built) Model 715. The closest standard Series 700 SPU would be the Model
730.
There was also a 715s, which was an upgrade in the physically larger 400-series chassis.
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Model 715s (Upgraded Model 425s or 433s)
The Model 715s is a single-processor deskside workstation upgraded from an MC68040-based
Model 425s or 433s. The upgrade kit is discontinued. The 715s is more similar to a Model
750 than to a standard (as-built) Model 715.
aaaaand the 710e.
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Model 705 and 710
The Model 705 and 710 are discontinued single-processor desktop workstations. They provide
no I/O slots.
Some Model 710 SPUs may have been upgraded from the MC68040-based Model 425e. This
document refers to these upgraded systems as Model 710e, and it is physically inden- tical
to a standard Model 710, except for using 425e RAM and storage devices.
ok
bear.
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until further notice