Identification of an HP minicomputer

[Guy Sotomayor Jr]

Fun!

I have 4 HP minis at the moment:
2116C that was running the last time I checked
2 2114B that are in various states of “not working”.  Interestingly the most promising one (e.g. the one that hasn’t had various parts clipped or otherwise buggered) is where I can’t get it to power up at all (not even the fan).  So I have to go and dig into the power supply a bit more…it could also be that the power cord is wired up incorrectly since it uses an old style hubble twist-lock that I may not have wired up quite right)
HP-1000 M Series

TTFN - Guy

> On Aug 12, 2019, at 4:38 PM, Guy Dunphy <guykd at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Guy,
> 
> If you didn't see this, it may be of interest: 
>   http://everist.org/NobLog/20131112_HP_1000_minicomputer_teardown.htm
> 
> It won't help you identify your system model, but could be of help with disassembly.
> 
> Funny coincidence that we have the same name, and similar HP-1000 minicomputers.
> 
> Sigh... 2019 slips by, and I still haven't returned to that project.
> 
> Guy
> 
> 
> At 02:52 PM 12/08/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have sitting in my pile of stuff an HP minicomputer that I’m trying to identify (at least in terms of exactly what it is and what sort of configuration it might have).
>> 
>> As far as I can tell, it’s an HP-1000 M-Series minicomputer (that should hopefully get us *some* details).  The “asset tag” lists the part number as 2113023-108.  Looking at the back there’s space for 9 I/O cards (5 are occupied).
>> 
>> So my question is which of the several CPUs could this be and how do I tell (for example) what the configuration is (e.g. how much memory, etc).
>> 
>> Yes, I have looked on bitsavers, but short of disassembling the box to look at the (at least) 2 boards that are below the I/O slots, I can’t tell what’s there and I’d like to see if there’s a way to determine what this is without resorting to disassembly.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> TTFN - Guy