Anyone looking for a HP Micro 3000 GX?

[Lee Courtney (ACM)]

BTW this machine runs the older (but still fun) MPE-V operating system on a 16-bit word stack architecture. Probably circa-early 1980s era business mini-computer. Not second generation PA-RISC 32-bit HP3000 architecture. 

If you've ever wanted to have a stack machine, this is a pretty good example. Nice small, albeit slow, HP3000.

Lee Courtney


--- On Thu, 3/19/09, Josh Dersch <derschjo at mail.msu.edu> wrote:

> From: Josh Dersch <derschjo at mail.msu.edu>
> Subject: Anyone looking for a HP Micro 3000 GX?
> To: "On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 12:31 AM
> Hey all -- doing some more
> cleaning.  I have an HP Micro 3000 GX, (model 32536AH)
> I'm looking to offload.  I inherited this when I was in
> high school from a business that was tossing it, and I
> haven't done much with it since.  It looks like an
> interesting machine, but I've got too many other things to
> play with at the moment and figured there might be some
> 3000-series fanatic out there looking for a new toy (or just
> parts...)
> 
> At one point it was booting some version/flavor of MPE but
> in the past few years either the hard drive's gone bad, or
> it's developed a few bad sectors.  It does pass all
> power-on diagnostics, however.
> 
> It has an 157MB ESDI drive, some manner of cartridge tape
> drive, 4MB of ram and 16 serial ports.  It's a smallish
> (well, relatively speaking) tower-form-factor machine.
> 
> It's in pretty good shape, but it's missing a few screws on
> the back panel from when I took it apart when I was 16 and
> lost a few.  (Man do you ever have to take a lot of
> screws out to get inside this thing!)
> 
> Anyone interested in this?  I can't ship it (please
> don't ask!) as it's way too heavy (must weigh 90lbs) but
> I'll happily drive a bit to meet someone halfway.  This
> is located in the Seattle, WA area.  Drop me a line...
> 
> Thanks,
> Josh
>