Re:

>> I'm looking at acquiring a 3000-932.  What kind of machine is it?

Charles writes:
> It is a computer that had a very short life and is now "not supported" by
> HP.  It has both CIO and NIO slots which means that it works with both the
> earlier version PA-RISC I/O cards and the new.  The memory it uses is odd
> and therefore relatively expensive and is limited to 192Mb in total.

You can actually put up to 384 MB easily, and possibly more.  IIRC, there
are a wholllle bunch of slots where you can plug in memory cards (in back
*and* in front), and there were third party cards from Kelly Computer (and
possibly others?).  The HP "official" max memory is smaller, of course :)

> Although you can use single-ended SCSI disk with it given the right add-on
> interface card, it must boot off of a 670Mb "internal" HP-IB drive.  This

Or from an external HP-IB disk.

There's a *chance* that if you found a 932 with a sufficiently new version
of the IODC firmware, it *might* be able to boot from SCSI.  The equivalent
hardware HP 9000/832 had that ability, IIRC.  On this, I'm not as sure as I am
about the max memory question.

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