NCD HMX X Terminal

WIP

The Network Computing Devices HMX is an X Terminal from 1996 and originally sold for a list price of $3,495. I found one cheap on an auction site so of course I had to have it.

Hardware Overview

MIPS R4000 processor, 16MB RAM, 2MB VRAM

Booting It

I naively thought this would boot to some sort of usable OS when powered up but no, this box loads a firmware off TFTP by default. Thankfully I was able to find a copy of the necessary firmware for this particular terminal (Xncdhmx) on a sketchy looking, unmaintained website. I knew I had hit gold when file told me I had a 32-bit MIPS ELF binary:

$ file Xncdhmx
Xncdhmx: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, MIPS, MIPS-I version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped

Running Stuff