March 07, 2003

HP Visualize C200    [ Software ]

Just got an HP Visualize C200 workstation from eBay - arrived via FedEx yesterday, and our neighbor was nice enough to let the delivery guy drop it in their front hallway rather than let it sit outside.   The box is nice!   You open up the CDROM/floppy/disk/front-panel enclosure, and the narrow 50-pin SCSI + fast/wide 68-pin SCSI + floppy + power + front-panel cables all run into a single mini-backplane at the back of the enclosure, which has something like an oversized SCA connector to plug into the system backplane.

It's got 512MB memory, two Seagate ST34572WS disks (although the OS only sees one of 'em from an 'ioscan'), an HP video card with a VGA adapater, and a PA-RISC 8200 200Mhz processor with 512KB instruction/1024KB data cache.   More specs are available from openpa.net.

And to boot it into single-user, you have to do a:

>bo p0
Interact with IPL (Y,N,Q)? y
ISL> hpux -is boot

Posted by edobbs at March 7, 2003 07:20 AM

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