[rescue] HP 9000/755 (HP-UX 10.20 CDs??)

[Mike Nicewonger]

> I just got my first HP 9000 machine, nice timing considering the amount of
> HP/Compaq related news generated recently.

Cool.
> 
> The machine seems to be OK, however the OS is hosed... it tries to boot to
> some kind of HP-sUX 9.x. Since I wanted to do an OS reinstallation from
> scratch, I would like to know if there is any way of getting the OS 10.20
> CDs from HP anymore. I remember they were giving those CDs for free or
> media cost in order to get their customer base Y2K compliant. 

HP was giving the CD's away as part of the Y2K thing. But this is sadly no
longer so. HP now wants $420.00 for the media kit.
> 
> If there is no way of getting them from HP at a reasonable cost, does
> anyone have a media kit that I can borrow? If interested in trading I
> have a complete solaris 2.6 server boxed set for SPARC (big thick box with
> a bunch of licensed add ons). I also have IRIX 4.x/5.3/6.2/6.5 (.5.10 
> upgrade too), and AIX 4.3.3. Of course this goes to a non-profit
> organization (i.e. the personal "computer room" of a PhD. student also
> known as the living room for most mortals :-) ) so I am not looking for
> any resale or money exchange if possible.

Shoot me mail off list I am willing to make a trade of sorts. :)
> 
> Thank you. I know this is not related to sun, but hey at least is not an
> intel feecee :-). Nice looking tower, they really don't make'em like they
> used to!

Hahaha FeeCee ( I like that) And yes the 75x series machines are kinda unique 

-Mike N