This month pickup: 64-bit HP/PA-RISC Visualize workstation, first look inside!

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I'm really appreciating your content, these vintage machines, the effort your putting with t2 to keep them running modern software.
Because you know, if you say retrocomputing almost everyone thinks about the same 80s computers, which are nice and iconic, but to me there's so much more drama with these 90s workstation. More capable, more interesting in architecture and weird in design (expecially sgi), and overall much more relevant as precursors to today technology, i mean, Unix OS, superscalar cpus, accelerated graphics...

alishan
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btw, the analog connector is VESA standard EVC, but only HP used it to some measure. Pretty sure you can find or make an appropriate adapter for it.

simonvannarath
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Love me some HP-PA goodness! I have a 712/80 that I regularly use with OpenBSD and a Visualize C3750 in storage; no system installed currently... T2 maybe?

simonvannarath
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hey.. i got one..RP2470 / dual PA-RISC 700mhz
beautifull cooler orbs.. just wow..
but bad disks.. :(
and GSP reset needed..

herauthon
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You're gonna have to get one of these Epyc or Threadripper PCs and bench how long it takes to build all of T2 on one go... Might be worth waiting for the 7nm stuff if though it should be considerably faster. Apparently a Linux kernel build is under 30sec now on 2990wx. Patreon might be worth a shot as well for funding your hardware adventures.

Wingnut