HP9000 Series 300 Lot
On the fourth of July 2009 a big lot of HP9000s appeared on trademe (one of the monitors was in a separate auction). I won the auction on the 11th for $25 (including the extra monitor) and collected it all on the 14th. It was quite a load. On the 15th the seller found some more bits which I collected on the 24th. These extra bits included a dead AlphaServer 1000 (mercury).
The machines included in this lot were:
- Four HP9000/340s (makemake, eris, phobos, ganymede)
- An HP9000/360? (europa)
- An HP9000/370 (io) with a bus expansion unit
- An HP9000/400t (demios)
- An HP9000/400dl (callisto)
- Plus a free AlphaServer 1000 (mercury)
Both series 400 machines were having memory parity problems when first started. This was fixed in the 400t by removing one of the memory modules. The 360 and 370 also seem to work fine. None of the 340s have been tested as of the 25th of July.
Software
A set of HP-UX 8.0 and 7.0 tapes (plus a bunch of others) came with the lot but sadly the tape drives were long gone. This is a bit of a problem as they are weird QIC-like (but incompatible) tapes which I lack any hardware to read.
| Part Number | Description |
| 24998-13374 | HP9000 Series 300 CUSTOMIZED HP-UX CORE & SUBSYS Release 0800, VUF A.B8.00, UPDATE format. Two tapes |
| 5960-1547 | HP-UX INSTALL For the HP9000 S300/400 Rev B.08.00 |
| 5959-1553 | S300 HP-UX Install. HP 9000 Series 300 HP-UX Rev. 7.0 |
Other Hardware
Other hardware includes:
| Part Number | Type | Quantity | Description |
| 98785A | Display | 1 | 17" Color Sony Trinitron, RGB RCA input |
| 98774A | Display | 2 | 19" monochrome display, single RCA connector |
| 98786A | Display | 3 | 17" monochrome display, BNC video in, RCA mono audio in |
| 46060A | HP-HIL | 5 | HP-HIL Mouse |
| 46084A | HP-HIL | 1 | ID Module |
| 46083-61601 | HP-HIL | 1 | HP-HIL cable, straight, short. |
| 46020-60001 | HP-HIL | 4 | HP-HIL keyboard cable. |
| 46021A | HP-HIL | 5 | HP-HIL Keyboard. |
| 98700-61603 | Cable | 1 | RGB BNC cable |
| 10833A | Cable | 1 | HP-IB Cable |
| 28641A | MAU | 1 | ThinMAU 10base2 MAU |
| C1402A#ABA | Keyboard | 1 | Keyboard, LK201 layout |
| C1400A#ABA | Keyboard | 1 | Keyboard, unknown layout |
| 5180-4721 | Keyboard | 1 | Keyboard cable for above two keyboards |
Documentation
Two large boxes of documentation (15 binders, a few books and loose bits of paper) were also included, most of which should be listed below:
| Part Number | Quantity | Document Title |
| 98561-9000 | 1 | Installation Reference for Series 300 Computers, 4th Edition (Nov. 1988) |
| 98561-9000 | 2 | Installation Reference for Series 300 Computers, 3rd Edition (Dec. 1986). |
| 5955-3456 | 1 | Site Environmental Requirements for Disc and Disc/Tape Drives |
| 46084-9060 | 1 | HP-HIL ID Module Customer Notice |
| B1012-90001 | 1 | Installing and Administering Network Services (shared binder) |
| B1012-90003 | 1 | Networking Overview (shared binder) |
| 50951-90010 | 1 | Network Services/9000 LAN Node Manager's Guide (shared binder) |
| 50952-90050 | 1 | Networking Reference, Edition 1 with Update 1 |
| B1014-90000 | 1 | Using ARPA Services |
| B1014-9001 | 1 | Installing and Administering ARPA Services |
| 98194-90005 | 1 | NetIPC Programmer's Guide |
| 50952-90010 | 1 | ARPA Services/300 Node Manager's Guide |
| B1013-90001 | 1 | Installing and Administering NFS Services |
| 98594-90060 | 1 | HP-UX System Administrator Manual, Volume 2 |
| 98594-90061 | 1 | HP-UX System Administration Tasks |
| 98594-90062 | 1 | HP-UX System Administration Concepts |
| 97005-90002 | 1 | HP-UX Installing Peripherals, 6th edition. |
| 92453-90029 | 1 | HP-UX System Security |
| 64715-90901 | 1 | HP 64715S HP teamwork/RT Operating Manual (still shrinkwrapped, no binder) |
| 64715-90901 | 1 | Manual Update for above (still shrinkwrapped, no binder) |
| 98885-90603 | 1 | Read me Before Installing Starbase Radiosity and Ray Tracing |
| B1637-90604 | 1 | Read Me Before Installing or Updating C++/SoftBench |
| B1759-90608 | 1 | Read me Before Installing HP-PHIGS Programming Environment on HP-UX |
| B2360-90600 | 1 | Read Me Before Installing or Updating HP Windows/9000 |
| B2362-90600 | 1 | Read me Before Installing or Updating HP GKS |
| B2371-90600 | 1 | Read Me Before Installing or Updating C/ANSI C |
| B2372-90600 | 1 | Read Me Before Installing or Updating FORTRAN |
| B2373-90600 | 1 | Read Me Before Installing or Updating HP Pascal |
| B1864-90610 | 1 | Read Me Before Updating K&R C |
| 36217-90135 | 1 | ALLBASE/SQL Release E.1 Read Me First for HP-UX 7.0 and HP-UX 8.0 |
| B2677-90601 | 1 | License Server Lock (LSLOCK) Version 2.01 Software Release Document for HP 9000 Series 300 Workstations |
| B1864-90000 | 1 | HP-UX Reference Volume 3: Sections 1M, 4, 5, 7, and 9, HP-UX Release 8.0 |
| 09000-90013 | 1 | HP-UX Reference Vol 1: Section 1 |
| 09000-90013 | 1 | HP-UX Reference Vol 2: Sections 2 and 3 |
| 09000-90013 | 1 | HP-UX Reference Vol 3: Sections 1M, 4, 5, 7 and 9 |
| 50952-90022 | 1 | Network Overview: NS-ARPA and NFS Services |
| 98594-90081 | 1 | Finding HP-UX Information |
| 98594-90090 | 1 | HP-UX Master Index |
| 98594-90000 | 1 | A Beginner's Guide to HP-UX |
| 98594-90020 | 1 | A Beginner's Guide to Using Shells |
| 98594-90080 | 1 | HP-UX Documentation Reference |
| 98594-90013 | 1 | Installing HP-UX |
| 98592-90045 | 1 | A Beginner's Guide to Using Starbase |
| 98594-90001 | 1 | A Beginner's Guide to the X Window System |
| 98794-90003 | 1 | X Window System C Quick Reference Guide |
| 98594-90025 | 1 | Configuring the X Window System on Series 300, Version 11 |
| 98794-90004 | 1 | Installing and Configuring the X Window System |
| 98597-90080 | 2 | HP-UX Documentation Roadmap (2 copies, one from 1986, other ~1988) |
| ???4 | 1 | Documentation poster (HP-UX 7?) |
| 98194-900294 | 1 | HP-UX 8.0 manual thing. Cover Letter Part No. 98194-60529 E0291 |
| B2661-90001 | 1 | CVRLETTER-GLANCEPLUS/UX |
| B2662-90001 | 1 | CVRLTR-RX/UX 8.0 HP B2662A |
| B1862-90600 | 1 | Read Me Before Installing or Updating HP-UX Release 8.0 |
| B1864-90611 | 1 | [a letter about HP-UX 8 C/ANSI C] |
| 5960-6635 | 1 | [letter about HP-UX 8 on CD-ROM] |
| B1863-90600 | 1 | User Environment Developer's Kit Installation Information |
| B1760-90608 | 1 | Read Me Before Installing The Personal Visualizer 2.1 |
| B2401-90001 | 1 | Read Me Before Installing HP C++ |
| B1695-90001 | 1 | Read Me Before Installing HP C++ Developer |
| 5960-4696 | 1 | READ ME FIRST for HP LaserRX/UX Users |
| 98194-90030 | 1 | LAN/9000 stuff |
| 92556-90003 | 1 | READ ME FIRST (japanese designer fonts stuff) |
| 5952-0431D | 1 | HP Support Spotlight |
| 5958-4497 | 4 | HP700/22 Keyboard Installation Instructions |
| C1004-90002 | 10 | HP700/22 User's Manual |
| 09144-90000 | 1 | HP 9144A Tape Driver User's Manual |
| 5951-6797 | 1 | HP 9000 Series 300 Hardware Technical Data |
| 07961-90901 | 1 | HP 7961B, HP 7962B AND HP 7963B DISC DRIVES OWNER'S MANUAL |
| 07957-90901 | 1 | HP 7957A AND HP 7958A DISC DRIVES OWNER'S MANUAL |
Images
Below are images from the original auction:
More images should be available on each machines page or at the HP Image Gallery.