7 Apr
2001
7 Apr
'01
12:09 p.m.
In a message dated 4/7/01 7:16:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
rigdonj(a)intellistar.net writes:
Despite the large
number of them used by the US Navy, very few managed to get into the
surplus market. I couldn't find a single surplus dealer that had one or
that even knew what they were.
I got one shortly before my auction. It was like an overgrown 9845 It was
larger and heavier IIRC. and sharper corners. It was one of the first 32 bit
integrated workstations. Advertised as a mainframe on the desktop in 1985.
Ran HP-UX.. Came with either a B&W or color monitor, 512K byte Ram and a 5
1/4 floppy. You could add a 10 meg HD, internal I think. The 9000 520 also
cost $30,000 to $50,000 in 1985.
Mine had two HPIB channels. I tried to get it hooked up before the sale but
wasn't able to. A local listmember bought it so it is still within the CC
list family. It is the only one of those I ever found.
Paxton
Portland, OR
7 Apr
7 Apr
12:32 p.m.
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001 Innfogra(a)aol.com wrote:
I got one shortly before my auction. It was like an
overgrown 9845 It was
larger and heavier IIRC. and sharper corners. It was one of the first 32 bit
integrated workstations. Advertised as a mainframe on the desktop in 1985.
Ran HP-UX.. Came with either a B&W or color monitor, 512K byte Ram and a 5
1/4 floppy. You could add a 10 meg HD, internal I think. The 9000 520 also
cost $30,000 to $50,000 in 1985.
Mine had two HPIB channels. I tried to get it hooked up before the sale but
wasn't able to. A local listmember bought it so it is still within the CC
list family. It is the only one of those I ever found.
This is the one I ended up with (Jim bought it and then sold it to me :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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8 Apr
8 Apr
2:14 p.m.
At 09:32 AM 4/7/01 -0700, Sellam wrote:
Cool. Doesit work? That makes three that I know of including my
half-dead one.
Joe
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001 Innfogra(a)aol.com wrote:
> I got one shortly before my auction. It was like an overgrown 9845 It was
> larger and heavier IIRC. and sharper corners. It was one of the first 32
bit
> integrated workstations. Advertised as a mainframe
on the desktop in 1985.
> Ran HP-UX.. Came with either a B&W or color monitor, 512K byte Ram and a 5
> 1/4 floppy. You could add a 10 meg HD, internal I think. The 9000 520 also
> cost $30,000 to $50,000 in 1985.
>
> Mine had two HPIB channels. I tried to get it hooked up before the sale
but
wasn't
able to. A local listmember bought it so it is still within the CC
list family. It is the only one of those I ever found.
This is the one I ended up with (Jim bought it and then sold it to me :) 
9 Apr
9 Apr
12:28 a.m.
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 01:14:39PM -0500, Joe wrote:
Cool. Doesit work? That makes three that I know of including my
half-dead one.
I have two 550's and I know of one 550 more in Finland. The 550 is in a
HP-minirack case (like 9144 with height doubled), has two temperature
controlled fans in the front, PSU modules on left, processor, memory and
IOP stack behind the fans and CIO slots on the back. The one I'm playing
around with has three CPUs, 8MB memory, one IOP and four 8-port muxes +
an additional HP-IB bus. It was possible (reading from the docs) to add
a second IOP and use a CIO extender to a second cab for IO.
The second machine doesn't want to boot, halts with "Fever finstrates than
expected". I really haven't had the time to investigate yet.
In a few months I'll get the machine to a reasonable state with 7935 HD +
7933 HD + 7974A 9-track and a 35401 changer.
I know the 500-series is rare (r@r3 L00K!) but I'd like to know about the
number of systems sold.
Oh yes, if someone wants to give me a few 7933/7925s I might consider a
trade for the problematic one (considering shipping; this would apply to
Finland/Sweden/Europe unless you're really rich:)
I just love the 500-series, especially after seeing the CPU boards:)
--
jht
10:43 a.m.
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Jarkko Teppo wrote:
The second machine doesn't want to boot, halts
with "Fever finstrates than
expected". I really haven't had the time to investigate yet.
I would translate this message as "Not enough windows"?
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