miller@lamar.colostate.edu (Allen Miller) (02/23/91)
I have been given an HP 9000 series 540 by someone here at Colorado State and have some questions about this machine. I understand it is rather obsolete. FYI we also run several 9000-320's running HP-UX 7.0. - Can the 540 run Telnet/FTP? It has a LAN card in it, with cables and ThinMAU box. What software is necessary? One local expert says that the only solution is some 3rd party software from Wollongong, but that it also costs money, something we don't want to spend on this machine if at all possible. - What is the most recent HP-UX version which supports this hardware? The guy who was running it before was running 5.2, but never tried to network it to anything. - My hope is to be able to use this thing as a gateway bewteen a piece of scientific apparatus which does not have an Ethernet card and the rest of the real world. All this 540 would need to do is sit there and run a minumal system and read data from the spectrometer via a serial port, saving the data to be able to send it away via ftp. I would welcome any comments/hints that anyone may have. - If its hopeless, let me know that also, so I can quit bothering with it. - Allen Miller miller@lamar.colostate.edu - - Department of Physics (303) 491-7751 - - Colorado State University fax (303) 491-7947 - - Fort Collins CO 80523 -