10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
10:18 p.m.
Hey PA-RISC aficionados. Was there in fact a production PA-RISC
machine whose CPU was implemented with standard TTL chips? If so,
which one, and does anyone have one that they'd like to trade away?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
10 Jun
10 Jun
10:25 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
Hey PA-RISC aficionados. Was there in fact a
production PA-RISC
machine whose CPU was implemented with standard TTL chips? If so,
which one,
Yes, the "Indigo", HP 9000 model 840 and HP 3000 model 930.
and does anyone have one that they'd like to trade
away?
I doubt that there are many around. I know someone who has one, but he
intends to donate it to the Computer History Museum. (Or maybe he
already has done so.)
Eric
11 Jun
11 Jun
12:34 a.m.
On Jun 10, 2009, at 6:25 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
Cool, thanks for the info.
:-(
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Hey PA-RISC
aficionados. Was there in fact a production PA-RISC
machine whose CPU was implemented with standard TTL chips? If so,
which one,
Yes, the "Indigo", HP 9000 model 840 and HP 3000 model 930.
and does
anyone have one that they'd like to trade away?
I doubt that there are many around. I know someone who has one,
but he intends to donate it to the Computer History Museum. (Or
maybe he already has done so.) 
3:46 p.m.
HP 9000 model 840 and HP 3000 model 930.
I think
I have seen one of those here in Germany - running HPUX 24/7 and being connected to the
Internet.
--
http://www.hachti.de
7:29 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Eric Smith wrote:
Dave McGuire wrote:
http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/dev/hp9000_840/
We have the only 9000/840 still running (at least 24/7), it belongs to the
university since it has been donated from HP in 1987 (and it is
practically running since then!). It includes 24MB RAM, a 7978 tape drive,
several 9144 cartridge drives and several 7933/7935 disk drives, although
the system is currently running from SCSI disks (under the terminal). I
have a complete spare board set (includes I/O, CPU and memory boards),
too. The 9122 floppy drive has been moved to the HP1000.
Some printout for the curious ;-)
(c)Copyright 1983-1992 Hewlett-Packard Co., All Rights Reserved.
(c)Copyright 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985-1990 The Regents of the Univ. of
California
(c)Copyright 1980, 1984, 1986 Unix System Laboratories, Inc.
(c)Copyright 1986-1992 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(c)Copyright 1985, 1986, 1988 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(c)Copyright 1986 Digital Equipment Corp.
(c)Copyright 1990 Motorola, Inc.
(c)Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992 Cornell University
(c)Copyright 1988 Carnegie Mellon
RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND
Use, duplication, or disclosure by the U.S. Government is subject to
restrictions as set forth in sub-paragraph (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights in
Technical Data and Computer Software clause in DFARS 252.227-7013.
Hewlett-Packard Company
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304 U.S.A.
Rights for non-DOD U.S. Government Departments and Agencies are as set
forth in FAR 52.227-19(c)(1,2).
donaldo:~> uname -a
HP-UX donaldo A.09.00 B 9000/840 8193 16-user license
donaldo:~> uptime
9:24pm up 192 days, 9:23, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.02, 0.01
donaldo:~> bdf
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/vg01/root 504134 154504 299216 34% /
/dev/vg01/usr 1296422 490475 676304 42% /usr
Christian
Hey PA-RISC aficionados. Was there in fact a
production PA-RISC machine
whose CPU was implemented with standard TTL chips? If so, which one,
and does anyone have one that they'd like to trade away?
I doubt that there are many around. I know someone who has one, but he
intends to donate it to the Computer History Museum. (Or maybe he already
has done so.)
7:48 p.m.
On Jun 11, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Christian Corti wrote:
http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/dev/hp9000_840/
We have the only 9000/840 still running (at least 24/7), it belongs
to the university since it has been donated from HP in 1987 (and it
is practically running since then!). It includes 24MB RAM, a 7978
tape drive, several 9144 cartridge drives and several 7933/7935
disk drives, although the system is currently running from SCSI
disks (under the terminal). I have a complete spare board set
(includes I/O, CPU and memory boards), too. The 9122 floppy drive
has been moved to the HP1000.
Wow...beautiful!!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Hey PA-RISC aficionados. Was there in fact a
production PA-
RISC machine whose CPU was implemented with standard TTL chips?
If so, which one, and does anyone have one that they'd like to
trade away?
I doubt that there are many around. I know someone who has one,
but he intends to donate it to the Computer History Museum. (Or
maybe he already has done so.) 
5:51 p.m.
Hey PA-RISC aficionados. Was there in fact a production PA-RISC
machine whose CPU was implemented with standard TTL chips? If so,
which one, and does anyone have one that they'd like to trade away?
I believe the HP9000/840 comes close. I don't think it was _all_ TTL
chips, but the CPU wasn't one big custom thing from what I've read.
FWIW, I'm looking for one too. It's supposed to be seriously rare...
-tony
7:45 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
I believe the HP9000/840 comes close. I don't
think it was _all_ TTL
chips, but the CPU wasn't one big custom thing from what I've read.
FWIW, I'm looking for one too. It's supposed to be seriously rare...
The design was originally intended for internal use only, but the VLSI
was behind schedule, so they decided to productize it. They dropped it
as soon as the VLSI became available.
Eric
12 Jun
12 Jun
4:03 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:18:08 -0400
Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Was there in fact a production PA-RISC
machine whose CPU was implemented with standard TTL chips?
http://www.openpa.net/pa-risc_processors.html#ts-1
http://www.openpa.net/systems/hp_early-systems.html#ts-1
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
5689
days inactive
5691
days old
8 comments
6 participants
participants (6)
-
ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk -
cc＠informatik.uni-stuttgart.de -
eric＠brouhaha.com -
hachti＠hachti.de -
jkunz＠unixag-kl.fh-kl.de -
mcguire＠neurotica.com