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I've previously checked out big, old servers -- but this one is quite  different.  

HP 9000 K-class service manual (PDF):  http://ftp.parisc-linux.org/docs/platforms/A2375-90004.pdf  

Sources:  
HP9000 K-class CPU board photo:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HP-HP9000-K-Class-CPU-PA-RISC8200-200MHz-A3641-60022_02.jpg
HP PowerTrust UPS: http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=1078
HP ThinLAN AUI transceiver photo:  https://4gte.com/products/hp-agilent-26841b-thinlan-transceiver/
Modem Distribution Panel photo: https://www.ebay.com/p/1000238970
HP 9000 Workstation with graphics display photo:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HP-HP9000-710-Workstation_04.jpg
HP-UX CD photo: https://archive.org/details/hp-ux8.07forhp9000s7xx
IBM RS/6000 server photo:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_RS6000_h70.jpg
IBM POWER CPU card photo:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Power-cpu.jpg
Sun SPARC CPU photo:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sun_UltraSPARCII.jpg
Sun E450 photo: https://imgur.com/gallery/5W4gGef
HP 9000 series workstation running Debian Linux photo:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HP-HP9000-C110-Workstation_21.jpg
HP 9000 series workstation running NeXTSTEP photo:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HP-HP9000-715-Running-NeXTSTEP_02.jpg
HP press release from early 1997 with list prices:  https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Support/KB/Docs/HpMain/kclass.txt

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Big Old HP Server from 1996!

I've previously checked out big, old servers -- but this one is quite different. HP 9000 K-class service manual (PDF): http://ftp.parisc-linux.org/docs/platforms/A2375-90004.pdf Sources: HP9000 K-class CPU board photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HP-HP9000-K-Class-CPU-PA-RISC8200-200MHz-A3641-60022_02.jpg HP PowerTrust UPS: http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=1078 HP ThinLAN AUI transceiver photo: https://4gte.com/products/hp-agilent-26841b-thinlan-transceiver/ Modem Distribution Panel photo: https://www.ebay.com/p/1000238970 HP 9000 Workstation with graphics display photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HP-HP9000-710-Workstation_04.jpg HP-UX CD photo: https://archive.org/details/hp-ux8.07forhp9000s7xx IBM RS/6000 server photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_RS6000_h70.jpg IBM POWER CPU card photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Power-cpu.jpg Sun SPARC CPU photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sun_UltraSPARCII.jpg Sun E450 photo: https://imgur.com/gallery/5W4gGef HP 9000 series workstation running Debian Linux photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HP-HP9000-C110-Workstation_21.jpg HP 9000 series workstation running NeXTSTEP photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HP-HP9000-715-Running-NeXTSTEP_02.jpg HP press release from early 1997 with list prices: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Support/KB/Docs/HpMain/kclass.txt ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com).

Comments

Asaf Sagi

I love those old monsters. Great video!

Anonymous

Great video, Well about RS232 management there's a clever explanation for this. Back in the day there was no standard for remote management (according to Wikipedia IPMI v1.0 appeared in 1998) so it was kinda great for remote management to hook whole farm using RS232 to some terminal server and do all management through it. In my "collection" i still have Sun Microsystems Netra X1 which is small (short) 1U rack server with one PSU (and no other option for power redundancy) which equipped with two non hot-swappable IDE drives and single UltraSPARC CPU. Most important thing that this device has no video card but has two 8c8p (RJ45) connectors for RS232 and one of them is used as a console port. Pinout for those ports was same as for Cisco devices. And instead of implementing separate Ethernet interface for management and additional video output for such server it was cheaper to build console port. So whole rack could be managed by single terminal server (which was common device back then) with attached network devices and Netra servers. Also using 8c8p connectors for serial was also great. It used less space unlike bulky DB9 connectors and crimping of such cables was very easy (especially if using flat 8 wire cables).