Just got a HP Gecko

[Blake Patterson]

I just was at a flea market and bought a HP-9000 712/60 "Gecko" from a
guy selling old computers. It has a 2GB drive an 64 MB RAM. It comes
with HP/UX installed but it will run NeXTSTEP and I've got the media.
Will see how it goes compared to my NeXTStation Turbo Color.

Any thoughts? Thanks.



bp

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Heisenberg may have slept here.

[KarsteN Winkovics]

"Blake Patterson" <bwpatter@bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
news:bwpatter-A2B5A2.23333605102003@news.verizon.net... I just was at a flea market and bought a HP-9000 712/60 "Gecko" from a guy selling old computers. It has a 2GB drive an 64 MB RAM. It comes


Hi, Blake,

the Gecko should run just fine although it will be even better with a bit
more RAM.

The PA-RISCs seem to be the fastest contemporary hardware for NSrisc. I
still use my 715/100 on a daily basis.

Enjoy!
Karsten

[David Evans]

I too just got a Gecko the other day...712/60, 96MB RAM, 500MB
disk...free! 3.3 seem to run quite nicely on it. I can see why these
were popular NS boxes at the time.

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David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual

[Pete French]

dfevans@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes: I too just got a Gecko the other day...712/60, 96MB RAM, 500MB disk...free! 3.3 seem to run quite nicely on it. I can see why these were popular NS boxes at the time.

Porting code to it was a bit of a pain though - absolutely guaranteed to
show up any assumptions you bign have made in your code about word alignment
of data structures. Caused me no end of grief. Still, it did help iron out
a few bugs...

-bat.

[David Evans]

In article <qv8t61-8gj1.ln1@toybox.twisted.org.uk>,
Pete French <pete@n0spam.twisted.org.uk> wrote:dfevans@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes: I too just got a Gecko the other day...712/60, 96MB RAM, 500MB disk...free! 3.3 seem to run quite nicely on it. I can see why these were popular NS boxes at the time.Porting code to it was a bit of a pain though - absolutely guaranteed toshow up any assumptions you bign have made in your code about word alignmentof data structures. Caused me no end of grief. Still, it did help iron outa few bugs...

One nice thing about NS's cross-platform support is that you could
usually be confident that weird crashes were a result of such
assumptions on your part. The OS itself always seemed to do such a
good job of compatibility that you could concentrate on your own code.

--
David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual