I’m Chris Jones, and I’m the author of all content on this site.
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Hello Martin
I stumpled upon your page when I was looking for information regarding the HP 16500A und 16500B models as I have both of them…
Also read somewhere in a Yahoo group that the 16500B CPU board can be installed onto a 16500A chassis, as apparently the backplane is the same…just video signals and HIL needs rewiring…
Do you have any more infos on the connection internals?
cheers
richard
Hi Richard,
Thanks for your message. I did look in to this and the conversion wouldn’t be too complicated. If I remember rightly, the video connector on the 16500A motherboard is a 40-way IDC connector which directly matches the one on the Sony monitor chassis. On the 16500B it’s a 10-way IDC connector. I did make a cable adapting between them and it worked. I can’t remember about the HIL connections, though. Aren’t they on the backplane? Anyhow, I no longer own a 16500A mainframe so I can’t compare them any more.
Chris