HP 9000/216

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Teo Zenios wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Patrick Finnegan" <pat at computer-refuge.org>
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 4:50 PM
> Subject: Re: HP 9000/216
> 
> 
>> On Tuesday 04 December 2007, jim s wrote:
>>> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>>>> I finally decided to pick up the HP 9000/216 box which had been
>>>> laying around at my usual supplier for a few weeks.  I spent a
>>>> little time looking at google, and can't find much info on them.
>>> if these are what I think they are, they are PA architecture and
>>> there is an HPUX 11.11 release
>> Nope, they're 68k.
>>
>> I don't think you could have put only 1.5MB of memory into any PA-RISC
>> box.
>>
>> Pat
>> -- 
> 
> That model came out in 1982, so the RAM seems to be pretty good for that
> time period. The HP Computer Museum Website says: "The 9816 family was also
> known as the 200 Series Model 16, 9000 Model 216 and 9000/216."
> 
> http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=4
> 
> If you look under the software section for the 200/300 series there are some
> things to play around with (test utils, basic, Pascal, etc).  I think they
> have the manuals for the unit as well.
> 
> The HP 9000 series was 68K up to the 400S model (68030) then they switched.

I'm pretty sure that the 425 and 433 machines were 68040-based.

Peace...  Sridhar