15 Mar
2000
15 Mar
'00
10:42 a.m.
Try http://www.zepa.net/apollo/Apollo-FAQ.html
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From: Peter Pachla
<peter.pachla(a)wintermute.org.uk>
To: Classic Computer <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Subject: HP Apollo/9000s
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 06:04 PM
Hi Does anyone know of a FAQ or other document which describes the HP
Apollo
(700 series?) and/or the HP-9000 series of PA-RISC
machines (9000/7xx?).
16 Mar
16 Mar
3:31 a.m.
Hi Paul,
Actually, that was the first place I looked....barely a mention of the "4xx"
series and nothing at all about the "7xx" machines.
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but there just doesn't seem to be
much in the way of FAQs detailing the HP-9000 family in general (or
HP-3000) - or am I looking in the wrong places?
TTFN - Pete.
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7:22 a.m.
Hi Paul,
Actually, that was the first place I looked....barely a mention of the "4xx"
series and nothing at all about the "7xx" machines.
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but there just doesn't seem to be
much in the way of FAQs detailing the HP-9000 family in general (or
HP-3000) - or am I looking in the wrong places?
Actually I was impressed it looks like a LOT of activity is going on just
from chasing the 3 or 4 posts to this list with links.
I found mailing
lists, newsgroups, and half a dozen or more web sites. Now
"some" of the
links were pretty quiet, but many "looked" active.
HP is doing a ONE TIME free update to older 9000 series computers (they say
9000/800, but I don't know) to current 10.20 software. This offer ends on
April 30th 2000, so don't drag your feet if interested. The blurb claims
they want to "welcome" people back to HP support, but I didn't see any
strings. Could be they see offering this as a blanket get out of liability
on any y2k issues.
11:51 a.m.
Upon the date 01:22 PM 3/16/00 -0800, Mike Ford said something like:
What was the highest HP-UX version that the 300-series could handle? Was it
around 7.0 or 8.0? I've got a 9000/375 with 7.(mumble) and am curious.
The 9000/332's at my old job seem to handle the Y2K thing okay according to
my wife who still works with them there. Their application is a fixed
machine control/data crunching job running under Workstation Pascal 3.2
(not HP-UX) so dates are somewhat a non-issue anyway.
BTW, anybody got a WS Pascal 3.2 distribution and manuals available?
Regards, Chris
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Hi Paul,
Actually, that was the first place I looked....barely a mention of the "4xx"
series and nothing at all about the "7xx" machines.
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but there just doesn't seem to be
much in the way of FAQs detailing the HP-9000 family in general (or
HP-3000) - or am I looking in the wrong places?
Actually I was impressed it looks like a LOT of activity is going on just
from chasing the 3 or 4 posts to this list with links. I found mailing
lists, newsgroups, and half a dozen or more web sites. Now "some" of the
links were pretty quiet, but many "looked" active.
HP is doing a ONE TIME free update to older 9000 series computers (they say
9000/800, but I don't know) to current 10.20 software. This offer ends on
April 30th 2000, so don't drag your feet if interested. The blurb claims
they want to "welcome" people back to HP support, but I didn't see any
strings. Could be they see offering this as a blanket get out of liability
on any y2k issues.
12:48 p.m.
Hi Chris;
HPUX 9.1, released in 1995, replaced 9.03 and was the last release
to support the 68K-based architecture in the 300 and 400 series.
As far as I know, HP did not release Y2K patches for 9.1 .
However, the 300 and 400 series are supported under netBSD.
Best regards,
Carlos.
At 08:51 PM 03/16/2000 -0500, you wrote:
What was the highest HP-UX version that the 300-series
could handle? Was it
around 7.0 or 8.0? I've got a 9000/375 with 7.(mumble) and am curious.
The 9000/332's at my old job seem to handle the Y2K thing okay according to
my wife who still works with them there. Their application is a fixed
machine control/data crunching job running under Workstation Pascal 3.2
(not HP-UX) so dates are somewhat a non-issue anyway.
BTW, anybody got a WS Pascal 3.2 distribution and manuals available?
Regards, Chris
26 Mar
26 Mar
1:58 p.m.
Hi Mike,
Actually I was impressed it looks like a LOT of
activity is
going on....
Yes, I went and had another look at the FAQ site after seeing this message.
Must've been a problem with my browser cache as this time I found a much
updated FAQ....
....I found mailing lists....
Could you let me have the details plese?
HP is doing a ONE TIME free update to older 9000
series
computers (they say 9000/800, but I don't know) to current
10.20 software....
I understand that some people with 400/700 series machines have been able to
get the (or rather "an") upgrade too.
....This offer ends on April 30th 2000, so don't
drag your
feet if interested....
Thanks, I wasn't aware there was a time limit associated with this offer.
TTFN - Pete.
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Hardware & Software Engineer. Sound Engineer.
Collector of Arcade Machines, Games Consoles & Obsolete Computers (esp DEC)
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6:59 p.m.
Hi Mike,
I didn't keep the info, but if you don't mind waiting when I get interested
in the Apollo stuff again I will pass on what I find. No time to think
about it right now, so I didn't bookmark etc.
Cheers, Mike Ford
Actually I was impressed it looks like a LOT of
activity is
going on....
Yes, I went and had another look at the FAQ site after seeing this message.
Must've been a problem with my browser cache as this time I found a much
updated FAQ....
....I found mailing lists....
Could you let me have the details plese? 
27 Mar
27 Mar
4:28 a.m.
New subject: Nicolet NIC-80 or NIC-1080
Hi
I am looking for anyone with any info on either
of these machines. Specifically, I am looking for
some software called DEMON/F. If anyone has one
of these rare mini's, I'd also like to get in
touch with you, even if you don't have any software.
Dwight
6:15 a.m.
New subject: Pdp-11 available in Baltimore, MD, USA area
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society was at the Hamfest in Timonium, MD
this past weekend and they had a sign up description a working PDP-11/73 and
VT220 terminal that they had available. I told them I'd pass the word on to
interested parties. Interested?
phone: 410-563-2737
email: bsfs(a)bsfs.org
web: http://www.bsfs.org
http://www.balticon.org
John
http://www.his.com/~jlewczyk/mark8.html - "Mark 8 Minicomputer"
28 Mar
28 Mar
5:01 a.m.
Hi Mike,
I didn't keep the info, but if you don't mind waiting when I
get interested in the Apollo stuff again I will pass on what
I find....
No worries, there's no great rush.
I'm just trying to decide whether to keep the pair of DN3xx0 machines I have
now, or go for something different. The PA-RISC and bit slice machines look
interesting....
TTFN - Pete.
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Hardware & Software Engineer. Sound Engineer.
Collector of Arcade Machines, Games Consoles & Obsolete Computers (esp DEC)
peter.pachla(a)wintermute.org.uk | www.wintermute.org.uk
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....I found mailing lists....
Could you let me have the details plese?
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