oldest running HP-UX server contest

[Scot Bean]

HP is celebrating 20 years of HP-UX. If you have 'old reliable' in a back corner somewhere, maybe you can win.

See http://www.hp.com/go/HPUX20

You need to provide the serial # of your machine.

[Scot Bean]

A similar contest was held just for the UK this year. Winner announced here:
http://h40059.www4.hp.com/campaigns/golddust/index.htm

[Steven Schweda]

If this works the way the "oldest running HP
OpenVMS server" "contest" works, then the
"prize" you can expect to win is a phone call
from someone trying to sell you a nice new
Itanium system.

http://www.hp.com/go/celebrate30

Look familiar?

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.vms/browse_thread/thread/42703cf652fed95e?hl=en#9b4554fde3c9f805

But don't let me discourage you.

[Scot Bean]

Youch, self-select marketing?

I was hoping this would be a fun thing.

There are contact opt-outs at the bottom of the web form. HP sales folks should honor them.

[Torsten.]

Old servers are not a measurement for any quality or speed, but nostalgic.

Past times are always good ...
IMHO "unknown" operating systems (not starting with "w" or "l" are not a good target for attacks, so you don't need to apply any security patches and you can let it just run ... , would you agree?

If I would still run win3.1 - I'm not a target, right?
But I would be proud of it.

;-)

How about uptimes? I like to compare servers to a car. Maintenance is just like changing the engine's oil, do it or not - it's up to you. You are required to stop and start the engine (reboot) to do this.
You can let it run until it definitely stops for any reason - it's up to you and it could take several years buntil it dies.

VMS (for example) is still running, nobody is recognizing this and the world is still turning around ...

Consider this thread question as fun - there are a lot of forum members running (very) old hardware here (e.g. T500 or I- and F-class servers) ...

[F Verschuren]

dem, Open only to U.S. entries

[Jan van den Ende]

@ Torsten

>>>
VMS (for example) is still running, nobody is recognizing this and the world is still turning around ...
<<<

How about when it should _STOP_ running?

Are you aware that, at least in Europe, that would be an instant cessation of mobile phone SMS (short meassage service)?

Maybe the world will not stop turning, but my guess is, that it _WOULD_ be noted... :-)

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Torsten.]

I agree with you, Jan.

The idea was this: Why should somebody run the "oldest" system? Ask for example the MPE or VMS folks, they know some good reasons, right?

But ask other people about the age of their systems and about hp-ux, mpe, tru64 or vms - almost nobody will know them. This says nothing about the importance ...

[whiteknight]

That is another marketing hype for HP to upsell the HPUX ;-)

WK

[Geoff Wild]

Don't have an "oldest" running HP-UX server - as we patch ours twice a year, but I do have this "cough" solaris 7 one:

[gwild@mars /home/gwild] $ uptime
9:08am up 1704 day(s), 21:57, 1 user, load average: 0.21, 0.29, 0.29


Rgds...Geoff

[Geoff Wild]

[soapbox]
"Open only to U.S. entries"
[/soapbox]

sigh.....

[Patrick Wallek]

Geoff said:
>> Don't have an "oldest" running HP-UX server - as we patch ours twice a year,

They aren't talking about uptime (number of days since last reboot), but rather the age of the server itself.

When you go to the page referenced and register for the contest you are prompted for the serial number of the server and that is all. From the serial number they look to see when it was manufactured.

[Geoff Wild]

Ah - I see says the blind man as he walks into the ditch....

Too bad - we just decommissioned our last K-Class last month...

Rgds...Geoff

[Patrick Wallek]

I just decommissioned 2 E55's a couple of months ago. They were still running great.

I entered the serial number for the oldest D-series I have.

[Pete Randall]

So - if I go back through my old support contracts and dig up the serial number of the 827 that we originally downsized to and submit that . . . . .


Pete

;^)

[Patrick Wallek]

I **think** the server is actually still supposed to be alive and running Pete......

[Steven Schweda]

> I **think** the server is actually still
> supposed to be alive and running Pete......

Fear not. You'll get the sales phone call
irregardful of the validity of the serial
number you supply. (Unless you supply a bad
phone number, too.)

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Our oldest box still in service (and for production... because of forms3 /oracle 7.2.3...)
$ more /etc/shutdownlog
01:50 Mon Jun 10, 1996. Reboot:
10:04 Mon Jun 10, 1996. Reboot:
10:56 Mon Jun 10, 1996. Reboot:
12:22 Mon Jun 10, 1996. Reboot:
13:25 Mon May 17, 1999. Reboot: (by siriusc!root)
14:28 Mon May 17, 1999. Reboot: (by siriusc!root)
18:32 Tue May 18, 1999. Reboot: (by siriusc!root)
16:33 Mon Jul 26, 1999. Halt: (by siriusc!root)
09:19 Fri Aug 20, 1999. Halt: (by siriusc!root)
20:20 Tue Oct 5, 1999. Reboot: (by secuciv!root)
19:53 Tue Dec 28, 1999. Reboot: (by secuciv!root)
13:49 Wed Dec 29, 1999. Reboot: (by secuciv!root)
00:11 Sat Jan 1, 2000. Reboot: (by secuciv!root)
00:16 Sat Jan 1, 2000. Reboot:
13:46 Tue Sep 12, 2000. Halt: (by secuciv!root)
16:53 Wed Dec 13, 2000. Halt: (by secuciv!root)
12:32 Wed Jan 30, 2002. Halt: (by secuciv!root)
16:59 Thu Nov 28, 2002. Halt: (by secuciv!root)
11:56 Tue Dec 3, 2002. Halt: (by secuciv!root)
11:49 Tue Nov 13, 2007. Reboot: (by secuciv!logadm)
11:56 Tue Nov 13, 2007. Halt: (by secuciv!logadm)
13:56 Tue Nov 13, 2007. Reboot: (by secuciv!logadm)
18:05 Wed Nov 14, 2007. Reboot: (by SAM)
18:07 Wed Nov 14, 2007. Reboot:
19:11 Wed Nov 14, 2007. Reboot:
shutdownlog: END

Unfortunately I had to change the primary boot disk on the 14th november, otherwise it would also have been our uptime record...
(A brave D210 in 10.20)

All the best
Victor

[Mike Shilladay]

We have an F20 purchased 1993 still runs hpux 10.10. We also have a G70 (two CPU) with a fully loaded memory carrier (768MB Wow), though that is turned off currently. I fully expect it to boot though, if required.

Mike.

[Scot Bean]

1) Yes, this is not an uptime contest, tho that is interesting too. Just the oldest machine you still actually use.

The UK winner is detailed here:
http://h40059.www4.hp.com/campaigns/golddust/index.htm , it was 1993 with a model E35 to win that one. It was running just their DNS service.

So, Mike's F20 could could have a chance, based on these UK results.


2) Yes, this one is just the US, sorry about that.


3) Yes, looks like a sales call may be involved. Sorry about that. I guess they figure if you last bought hardware in 1993, a sales call is warranted ;) ?

[Scot Bean]

FYI, the cutoff for this contest is January 15, 2008. So still time to test a power-up on that G70, perhaps.

[Mike Shilladay]

Thanks for info Scot. I will try and get that G70 ready for boot. I am sure it will, it used to have 3 full height 5.25" disks, 1 x 1.3GB and 2 x 670MB, until I upgraded it to 2 x 4GB and hp-ux 11.00 about 2 years ago.

It is a pity we sold our 827s, that was 1990 model a couple of years ago, that would have won it.

I'll update the post to let you know how it goes.

Mike.

[F Verschuren]

just walking to the databaseI see al lot of old systems, afer removing k100 and newer, I have still the folowing servers left, I do not have a ID what is the oldest....
is there a side where I see the fammaly tree of hp servers?
ps I am not in contest but just wondering.
9000/715-100
9000/735/B
9000/735-125
9000/735-99
9000/777/C110
9000/778/B132L
9000/778/B180L
9000/782/J2240
9000/785/C3600
9000/785/J5000
9000/785/J6750
9000/800/D390
9000/800/G50
9000/803/D220
9000/803/D320
9000/810/D380
9000/811/D210
9000/816/E35
9000/820/D380
9000/826/E45
9000/831/D250
9000/861/D370
9000/867/G40-H40
9000/871/D370
9000/887/G50/H50
9000/887/G60/H60

[Torsten.]

I don't remember when a certain system came out, but these looks pretty old:

Workstations:
9000/715-100
9000/735/B
9000/735-125
9000/735-99


Servers:
9000/800/G50
9000/816/E35
9000/826/E45
9000/867/G40-H40
9000/887/G50/H50
9000/887/G60/H60

[Scot Bean]

The '700' workstation models began in 1991. Some of those you have listed first shipped in 1992.

See
http://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?class=1&cat=13