Re: HP-9000 Series 300 Message #2 Posted by Steve Hodges on 23 Mar 1999, 7:58 a.m., in response to message #1 by Mike Umbricht
I used some of the early HP9000 series minis. Yes, the HP-IB interface is used to connect disk drives (and tape drives, and printers...)
Almost any HPIB drive should work, I don't know the part numbers, but when these were released, drives were advancing from washing machine sized 404Mb drives to 5 1/4 full height 1Gb drives (and very quickly too!)
If you can find almost any HPIB drive, and bootable tape, and an HPIB tape drive to suit, you'll be on your way. It may not be too big an ask, I'm sure there are people out there today with perfectly well working HP9000 HPIB based equipment that would be compatible. It's finding a bootable tape that may be difficult...
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