HP X-Terminals - Envizex

Envizex

The Envizex were the successors to the 700/RX terminals, featuring the same flat pizzabox case and a slightly modified architecture with a faster version of the Intel i960 RISC CPU. They have a (very quiet) fan inside.

Three different series were available which featured different speeds of the CPU:

• i SERIES: 25 MHz Intel i960CF with 4KB instruction and 1KB data cache
• a SERIES: 28 MHz Intel i960CF with 4KB instruction and 1KB data cache
• p SERIES: 33 MHz Intel i960CF with 4KB instruction and 1KB data cache

Common aspects:

• RAM: a and i SERIES: 4MB on board, 132MB maximum; four slots take each up to 32MB 72-pin non-parity SIMMs. p SERIES: 6MB on board, 102MB maximum; three slots take each up to 32MB 72-pin non-parity SIMMs
• Video RAM: 2MB
• Maximum video resolution/color-depth: 1280×1024 (i SERIES might do only 1024×768) 8-bit
• I/O connectors: two RS232 serial, HIL and two PS/2 for keyboard/mouse devices, parallel for printer, TP, AUI and BNC 10Mbit Ethernet and VGA video connector
• Expansion: They offer a range of expansion options:
  • 3.5″ PC floppy drive
  • CD-quality audio support
  • Either one of the following three cards:
    • SCSI/ROM adapter card
    • Token Ring adapter
    • 100VG AnyLan adapter (HP-proprietary 100MBit networking)
  • They also have two PCMCIA sockets for:
    • Boot-ROM card
    • SRAM cards which contain fonts or a local copy of the X server (no network download necessary)