[geeks] HP's

[Martijn Pronk]

Joshua D Boyd wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 04:02:51PM -0500, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
>
>>There are possibly some issues with NS running on the 712/100 due to some
>>difference between it and the other 712 model. Of course if you get it working
>>you should let everyone know :)
>>
>
>Hmm.  Mines an 80, and I still spent more on it 6months ago by twice what 100s
>go for now.
>
I have a 715/80 and it was free... (Cought it at my former workplace 
where they wanted to
get rid of it)
it has 64 Mb ram and originally had HP-UX 9.something on it. Now it has 
HP-UX 10.20
which was kindly provided by the same workplace...

>
> 
>
>>Note to all. The HP machines want a 512 byte block CD-ROM like the Sun & SGI
>>boxes for booting/loading OS
>>
>
>Yeah, I know.  Hence not getting the box set up right away.  The stupid seller
>sold me the wrong CD-Rom and refused to fix it, and it was months before I was
>able to get a 512b cdrom, at which time, I didn't have time to spare for 
>working on getting the HP going.
>
I used an external SUN cdrom drive on my HP to get the OS on it


Martijn