Got the HP9k system booted! was: New find & HP-UX p/w?

[Christian R. Fandt]

Upon the date 07:57 19-04-05, Joe R. said something like:
>At 11:18 PM 4/18/05 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >Another important question is whether this machine can be made y2k
> >compliant?
>
>    I'm pretty certain that it is, even the HP 9836 (aka 9000 236) was Y2K
>compliant. (the battery backup and clock were optional).
>
>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.
>
>    That's interesting! Maybe it's NOT Y2K compliant. I'll try to look and
>see if I have a manual for this machine that covers the clock. What model
>exactly is it?

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.

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Christian Fandt,    Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY  USA      cfandt at netsync.net
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