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HP Visualize C132L & C160L

Overview

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These were meant to be entry-level workstations equipped with the new PA-7300LC CPU. They have a similar case to that of the old 735 — build of interlocking modules so the I/O board, MPU board etc. can be easily taken out.

Internals

CPU

The off-chip L2 cache SRAM is optional and is installed in two DIMM slots below the CPU socket. The modules must be of equal size. Usually, these systems come with 2 512KB modules, totalling in 1MB L2 cache.

Chipset

» View a system-level ASCII-illustration of the chipset.

Buses

Memory

Expansion

Drives

The disk-slider can accomodate up to three SCSI drives and one floppy drive simultaneously, the internal cabling (usually) includes one Wide-SCSI cable with three 68-pin connectors and a HVD-terminator at the end, one Narrow-SCSI with one 50-pin connector and one cable for the floppy.

The Narrow-SCSI cable is normally used for the external-accessible half-height 5.25″ CD/DAT drive, although it is of course also possible to connect a 50-pin SE hard drive. The cable can also be easily replaced with a variant with more connectors to use up to three 50-pin SE hard drives. The PDC can boot off these SE drives.

The Wide-SCSI cable is normally used for the internal 3.5″ 68-pin Fast-Wide high-voltage differential system drives. Up to three hard drives can be installed in the cage, which leaves no room for an external-accessible CD/DAT drive though. The Fast-Wide drives are also bootable by the PDC.

A standard configuration could look like this:

External Connectors

  1. You need a special HP adapter-cable to convert this EVC-port to either BNC or HD15 VGA

ROM update

There is a firmware update available for the C160L, which contains the latest version (5.8).

References

Operating Systems

Benchmarks

Model SPEC95, int SPEC95, fp SPEC95rate, int SPEC95rate, fp
C132L 6.45 6.70 58.1 60.3
C160L 7.75 7.56 7.75/7.56 69.7/68.1

Compare these with other results on the Benchmarks page.

Physical dimensions/Power

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