Wow, that is an old piece of hardware.  When I was in the US Navy, we used
them for generating raytracing data to show how sound traveled in water.

Unfortunately, even in 1985 they were not recent technology.  The largest
hard drive that I ever saw for one of them was a 55MB external drive which
you could buy for around US$4,000.00, however they have been out of
production for at least 7 years.

The system uses HP-UX, a UNIX variant that HP created.  The devices connect
to the system using HP's proprietary HP-IB interface, similar to SCSI, but
not compatible with it.  It supports multiple CPUs (Motorola 68000, I
think).  Everything from CPUs to memory to interface cards connect to the
system's backplane.

The computer was a scientific and engineering workhorse, well suited to real
time data acquisition.  In today's world, however, there really is no use.
It is completely proprietary and has virtually no current software support.

You can find documentation for the 9000 series systems at
http://docs.hp.com/hpux.systems/#kclass.

Best of luck!

=d=

Drew Dunn
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Cristian Sferle
> Sent: Monday, August 10, 1998 10:33 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [PCBUILD] HP 9000
>
>
> Hello All  !
>
> Does somebody knows anything about HP 9000 series.
> It has 2,5MB of memory, a 5.25" FDD, no HDD, and I don't know hat kind of
> OS would work on it.
> It's made in 1985.
>
>  Bye,  Cristian Sferle
>