HP 9000 C100 and C110 PA-RISC Workstations – OpenPA.net
My HP C100 “Visualize”, chassis and drive slider purchased separately.
The “Visualize” product line wasn’t really a thing when this came out and the moniker wouldn’t be used until the C200, but it has a Visualize-48 card so it’s in the same basic ballpark.
The installed cards and memory all appear to be factory, and the amount of dust in it tells me it was never opened before I did.
Cards
J2801-60012 ATM NIC EISA BUS
A4308-66001 10/100 ethernet eisa (aka 4824-TX-0100)
A4244A VISUALIZE-48 (aka Visualize48Z)
2-slot EISA/GSC FF (source)
24/24 image planes, 8 overlay planes, 24-bit Z buffer, 3D graphics (not Visualize-48XP)
Total graphics memory: 14MB (source)
About 2x speed of Visualize-24 (source)
Memory
256MB Total
| SLOT | MODULE |
|---|---|
| 0A | A2500-60001 64MB |
| 0B | A2500-60001 64MB |
| 1A | A1235-60001 32MB |
| 1B | A1235-60001 32MB |
| 2A | A2579-60001 16MB |
| 2B | A2579-60001 16MB |
| 3A | A2579-60001 16MB |
| 3B | A2579-60001 16MB |
Notes
Seems to require a Sync-on-Green (SoG, RGsB) compatible monitor or converter, but only in some of the graphical modes. Text mode works fine on a 1990’s “KOGI” brand VGA panel but flips out as soon as X tries to start.
In text mode / ISL, it seems like you can only set the video output to be either 1280x1024@75Hz or 1280x1024@72Hz, no other options are in the [CO]figuration menu.
X running at weird frequency? Snippets from docs:
“HorizSync …If this entry is omitted, a default range of 28-33 kHz is used. Source: XF86Config man page.
”VertRefresh …If this entry is omitted, a default range of 43-72Hz is used. Source: XF86Config man page.”
— graphics administration guide for HP-UX 11.x, ch. 3 pg. 50