10 Nov
2007
10 Nov
'07
7:37 p.m.
Jules,
We recently managed to (finally!) get our HP 2116
machines out of 'deep store'
and into the light of day, and some initial cleaning work was done on the
panels earlier.
It appears that many of the boards, especially in the 2116C, have just
been placed into arbitrary slots.
You will also need to double-check some of the part numbers on the boards
to be sure that the 2116B and 2116C boards have not been put into the
wrong chassis. For example, it may be that some of the boards in the
2116B are 2116C boards and vice versa.
I can send you a more complete list of which boards belong in which
slots, but that will be just part of the story, in order to get these
machines running.
Overall, it looks like you have close to a complete 2116C and 2116B,
though you are missing the I/O boards that would have been used
in a dual processor system.
James Markevitch
11 Nov
11 Nov
10:03 a.m.
James A. Markevitch wrote:
Jules,
Yep - given how many of them are loose, that's highly likely (and particularly
given that there were three lumps of core just parked in the front of one
case). Unfortunately I ran out of time to pull the rear panels off the
machines to see if there was anything in there - we'd stood around and
speculated that there might be (particularly as there didn't seem anywhere
obvious to bolt the core in the front half of the cabinets).
We recently managed to (finally!) get our HP 2116
machines out of 'deep store'
and into the light of day, and some initial cleaning work was done on the
panels earlier.
It appears that many of the boards, especially in the 2116C, have just
been placed into arbitrary slots. You will also need to double-check some of the part
numbers on the boards
to be sure that the 2116B and 2116C boards have not been put into the
wrong chassis. For example, it may be that some of the boards in the
2116B are 2116C boards and vice versa.
I'm sure it's quite a mess. I'm quite relived that there are any boards in
there to be honest - I had a horrible feeling we were going to open the cases
and just find empty backplanes.
I can send you a more complete list of which boards
belong in which
slots, but that will be just part of the story, in order to get these
machines running.
Don't worry about it - I just thought I'd take the time to see what (if any!)
boards were in there whilst I have the chance, and then just throw it out onto
the mailing list to see what people thought. I expect it'll be quite some time
before anyone has any time to actually try to get anything up and running -
way too many other projects in the way first! :-)
Overall, it looks like you have close to a complete
2116C and 2116B,
though you are missing the I/O boards that would have been used
in a dual processor system.
It's possible they're still in storage and just not inside the machines for
some reason. We've got non-inventoried HP stuff spread across three different
rooms, and I know there are some boxes of boards in one of the rooms. Sadly
I've never come across the documentation for them, so it's nice to hear
there's docs out there still.
cheers!
Jules
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