At 06:55 PM 3/24/05 -0500, you wrote: I/O HP also made the Viper and HyperViper cards. They plug into PCs and will run HP software. I guess they were trying to cover all the bases. I doubt the 98547 will work with your card. I have an old ADC VGA PC-type monitor that also has RGB inputs and it does sync up to some of the HP cards including the 98751 IIRC. All of the HP video cards have different scan rates and resolution so you just have to try them to see if they work with the VGA monitors. If you have any other HP video cards you could try one of them if the installed one doesn't work. If you can't figure it out you could always send the drive to me and I'll hang it off of one of my systems. In fact I have a couple of HP 9000/362s that I need to try out. They use VGA monitors and and PS-2 keyboards. An NSN won't tell you much other than the country of origin and manufacturer. It won't tell you ANYTHING about the intended usage. Most (all?) of HP's stuff is already in the government supply system and has already been assigned NSNs and can be ordered off the shelf (pre-approved). A common item like a computer could go into ANYTHING. OTOH the military nomenclature may tell you a lot including what system it's a part of. There is at least one website that breaks down the nomenclature. (I used to specify test and support equipment for the US and Canadian Armys in a former life.) The fellow who had bought it earlier that day wanted just I do. I also have several versions of BASIC and a couple of versions of HPL. s.html There is a BSD website that describes a lot of the high end HP 9000/300 hardware. Sorry but I don't have the URL any more. I have some stuff posted about the 9800 and 9000 200 series but litle about the 9000/300. I do have a LOT of docs that include material about the 9000/300, HP-UX, HW configuration manuals, Pascal, HPL, BASIC and more. Joe

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:55:02 -0500, Christian R. Fandt <cfandt at netsync.net> wrote: What's the horizontal scan rate? Is it sync on green (RGsB), separate composite sync, or separate sync? If the horizontal rate is above 30 kHz, it's probably going to work OK with a VGA monitor. All you need to do is get the sync separated. A small circuit board with an LM1881, an 74LS00 and a few resistors and capacitors should to the job. I recently built a sync combiner separater for a bunch of 15 kHz horizontal machines that are video switched. Some have composite sync, some have separate. I can send the schematic if anyone is interested. If they have scan rates below 30kHz you'll need a scan doubler. For 15 kHz Horz, 60Hz vert machines you can get a board from Atlas Amusements that will do the job. (They call it their CGA to VGA converter, but it's really an analog 15kHz RGB to VGA converter. The price is about $100. They sell it for installation in arcade video games.) Eric

"Christian R. Fandt" wrote: Unfortunately, the series 300/400 PROMS did not allow much interaction with the boot process; in particular, they did not allow loading the seconday boot loader in a boot-management mode like the series 700 did (which allowed you to pass parameters to the kernel so that it boots in single user mode). Once you choose the drive that you want it to boot from, it will just go through the complete OS startup process. One method that has been reported to work once out of five times or so is to let hpux boot all the way to the login prompt, power-cycle the computer and drives, and when it reboots and starts fsck-ing the disks (there should be a /etc/bcheckrc: " message on the console) repeatedly type ctrl-C, ctrl-\ or shift-(DEL/ESC) (DEL/ESC is a key on the left side of HP-HIL keyboards). I don't remember the exact key combination that was used, but it did work once for me about ten years ago with hpux 9.0 and a model 380; it interrupts and gives you a single user prompt. Just finish fsck-ing stuff, mount -a and edit the /etc/passwd file. Not for the faint of heart, I know. Now, the 375 has built-in scsi if I remember correctly... that was the difference wrt the 370 I think. If you need to install hpux 9.x contact me off list. -- Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez email: carlos_murillo at cuthispambait.ieee.org Dean of Engineering, Universidad Autonoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia ---- "Western civilization... thought like the greeks, organized itself like the romans and believed in itself like the hebrew." -- Ortega y Gasset.

Upon the date 15:09 08-04-05, Carlos Murillo said something like: Okay, we've got success up to a limit -and that limit is the need for a login name and password. There is indeed HP-UX of some heretofore unknown version loaded. The NEC monitor I recently found at the local Salvation Army was able to be brightened up by adjusting the G2 gun drive controls a little. Yippee! A decent $3.00 17" multi-input monitor!!! Carlos, you evidently know HP-UX on these machines, so I'll address this section to you. Other folks may chime-in too if they have additional observations. This thread will add to our archival information on these machines -of which I've seen relatively little over the years up to now. Please note that I know only a little about *nix systems and am willing and able to listen and learn from you. I've had to work with an SVR4 '486 box back in the mid-90's at work and have forgotten 90% of what I picked up then. Age and disuse of that brief UNIX experience, I guess. I got the box and software tucked away here at home as the application was obsoleted in 1994 or '95 and I rescued the box and floppy disks from salvage. So anyway, per your instructions above, I booted to the Console Login and cycled power off/on. This forced the machine to fsck. After seeing the "/etc/bcheckrc: " I chose the first option you offered, CTRL-C. That did nothing. I tried CTRL-DEL/ESC next. This stopped the fsck process. Here's what it said: " Interrupt FSCK INTERRUPTED STARTING A SHELL FOR MANUAL fsck, ^D WHEN FILE SYSTEM FIXED (in bcheckrc) # <blockcursor>" Was that block cursor the single user prompt?? What is bcheckrc and why am I in it (other than the obvious fsck)? I hit ^D which caused the machine to appear to finish its fsck. The Console Login prompt appears again. This is back to where I started. Hmmm, let's try your last interruption suggestion . . . I power cycle off/on and let the machine completely finish its fsck process and boot to the Console Login prompt in order to get the fsck process completed correctly. I power cycle again to force a fsck and after the "/etc/bcheckrc: " appears I hit CTRL-\. The results were different. Here's what it said: " 11 Quit - core dumped UNEXPECTED ERROR DURING fsck -P, RUN fsck INTERACTIVELY! STARTING A SHELL FOR MANUAL fsck, ^D WHEN FILE SYSTEM FIXED (in bcheckrc) # <blockcursor>" Well, an error and core dump seem to not be the method of choice. This is where I gave up. So, I power cycled the machine in order to correctly complete the fsck, shut it off and put it away until I could hear from the collective expertise from the list. Nothing like this bothers me if I have some kind of direction in which to point myself. I'm like Tony, I'll tackle anything hardware-wise, but this software needs a little bit of coaching. On this 375 there is an HPIB connector bolted into the opening labeled SCSI/HS HPIB. I see a small daughter board attached to the back of the HPIB connector with a ribbon cable extending down to a header on the main CPU board. There is also a fifty-pin header on the main board meant, evidently, for connecting the SCSI option in place of the HS HPIB option. I would bet that the SCSI connector is the standard 50-pin Micro Ribbon connector used for SCSI-1 and fits in place of that HS HPIB connector. There is a second HPIB connector right on the main CPU meant for I/O and other slow speed peripherals and not mass storage like the HS HPIB is meant for. Do you know if simply removing the HS HPIB connector assembly and inserting a 50-pin ribbon cable into that 50-pin header would enable use of SCSI?? Or is there a daughter card, ? la the HS HPIB, involved? Evidently cannot use both (:-\ Another important question is whether this machine can be made y2k compliant? I had to replace the 3V lithium coin cell on the main CPU board and the machine prompted for a date/time upon bootup. Wouldn't take anything above 99 so I set it at 95, exactly 10 years in the past. Date entry is in the form of MMDDhhmm[yy]. When 05 is entered for yy the date always displays as 1970. Seems 70 to 99 only work. The EEPROM firmware (chip location U47) on my machine is part number 1818-5062 and *may* be the latest version. Upon startup the machine announces: "BOOTROM Rev. 2.0 29 Nov 90". I make that version assumption by believing the firmware upgrade required on this website: http://www.blobulent.com:16080/hp300/upgrade/hp380.html would be pretty much the last version released since the webpage had been made some years after my machine (ca 1991) was made. Looks like we're SOL, but that needs to be confirmed by the 9000/300 experts out there. That upgrade to a 380 looks tempting as my machine is just the one they're talking about. Very simple, except for the compilation of a new kernel in Step 1. I'm primarily a hardware guy. But, I'd need to use the machine frequently to really justify messing around with the upgrade. Thanks for the help again! Regards, Chris F. NNNN Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian Jamestown, NY USA cfandt at netsync.net Member of Antique Wireless Association URL: http://www.antiquewireless.org/

Upon the date 07:57 19-04-05, Joe R. said something like: Joe, the machine model is 9000/375. The CPU module is a 98574 which has the "L" board with the 50 MHz 68030 and 68882 FPU and a big heap of other logic on it. If it means anything, the main board p/n is 98574-69511 with rev C artwork and another sticker next to it has C-3130 on it, which is in the format of certain part numbers used by HP. The "L" board is 98574-66512 rev A. There are two A-3110-56 RAM modules totaling 8 meg. I would certainly be interested in a copy of said manual if you have it! There seems to be nothing, documentation-wise, on these machines available anywhere else from what I can see. As I had offered before, the manuals could be scanned and put on Al's bitsavers.org site for all to use. Thanks again. -Chris F. NNNN Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian Jamestown, NY USA cfandt at netsync.net Member of Antique Wireless Association URL: http://www.antiquewireless.org/

From: "Steve Robertson" <steerex at mindspring.com> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 4:46 PM I am also ignorant about HPUX but I would assume the easiest thing to do would be to change the root password: Try typing 'passwd root' and see if it asks for a new password, if not then 'vi /etc/passwd' and remove the root password (it should be encrypted) if it's not encrypted just change it. If you are not familiar with vi Linux has a clone and www.linux.org should have the commands, it's easy and exists on most UNIX systems and UNIX clones. Typing 'd' then hitting the spacebar deletes the character under the cursor, typing ':w!' saves the file, ':q' exits (colon, lowercase w, explanation point & colon lowercase q). Adding a user and giving it root permissions takes more effort. Randy www.s100-manuals.com