HP3000/917LX available in Vacaville

[David Collins]

“3000-L” ?  Is that another group?



> On 29 Sep 2019, at 9:27 am, Stan Sieler via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> Lee writes:
> 
>> This is a *very* nice entry-level HP3000/MPE system based on PA-RISC
>> architecture. But one note - the 917 had the soldered TOD battery on the
>> motherboard, vs. the FRU TOD battery in the later 918. Not a reason to skip
>> if you are interested in this machine.
> 
> 
> True, there's been some discussion of that over on HP3000-L.
> 
> IIRC, it's still possible to boot even if the battery is dead ...
> boot to the ISL> prompt, run clkutil, set the date, then exit to ISL>,
> then run 'START'.
> 
> Stan