HP 9000 Model 382 Controller



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General Technical Information

HOSTNAME TROLL
SYSTEM CPU Motorola MC68040 @25MHz
CACHE (2nd, 1st D/I) 0 KB, 4 KB / 4 KB
RAM  20 MB, using 4 proprietary HP ECC SIMMs  (Max. 32 MB)
SCSI BUS Built-in SCSI-1
OPTION BUS HP-IB connector
DIO-I card slot
GRAPHICS Built-in framebuffer, 8-plane color / grey scale (jumper selectable) 640x480 @60Hz
HARD DISK DRIVE 2 GB HP C3325 SCSI disk
1 GB HP/Quantum Enterprise 1080S
CD-ROM DRIVE Plextor SCSI CD-ROM in an external box
NETWORK 10base2 / 10baseT ethernet
AUDIO Onboard audio, output only
OS HP-UX 8.00 (original system)
HP-UX 9.10
YEAR 1991 (this unit shipped the 27th of August, 1993)
SPEED 16.6 VAX MIPS
POWER CONSUMPTION (MAX. / MEASURED) 100 / 54 W
COMMENTS The HP 382 can run HP-UX (for 300 series), RMB/WS, RMB/UX, Pascal WS and NetBSD/hp300.
ESTIMATED PRICE '91 (basic configuration, VGA, 4 MB RAM, 210 MB disk)
 $9,900

History and other comments

I rescued this obsolete HP box from being recycled in July 2009. It's a HP 9000 Model A 1474A.

This is how it looks inside (the picture shows the original configuration, with one HP SCSI disk):


Intalling HP-UX for HP9000 300 Series

The basic HP-UX 9.x CD-ROM installation kit consists of 2 CDs, one installation/boot CD and another containing an "update" to the full OS. I selected a 1 GB disk for the installation because HP-UX 9.x cannot partition a larger disk during the standard installation. Also, there is a funny bug in the installation procedure, you have to switch off your CD-ROM drive after inserting the second CD during the installation, and switch it back on again and after that press <return>, otherwise it's never mounted and the installation will fail. This is what you should try if you get an error message complaining about the CD-ROM device /dev/bsrc.
 
Once HP-UX is installed,  you can login and enter the VUE environment (provided that you are on a graphical console) by changing runlevel, issue an init 4 command.
 
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Last updated:  19-7-2009