10 Aug
2012
10 Aug
'12
6:45 a.m.
On 8/10/12 6:41 AM, John Many Jars wrote:
...in a closet here. They used to have a bunch of
these were I used
to work, as a CAD system.
This one has AIX on it... it fails bootup and drops you to some sort
of prompt right after it plays it's tune (with the little speaker
icon).
You can type ls at the prompt and gets what looks like a list of devices.
Should I bit it, or is it worth trying to fix? Anyone point me in the
right direction?
I only dug it out because of the CDE thread, so it's "all your fault!"
"43P" covers a world of IBM sins....
Seriously, from a 120MHz[1] PReP CPU to a 333MHz CHRP, several models
were designated 43P. They all had miserably slow I/O but the CHRP
models will run AIX v5.x.
The PReP models need a bootable floppy disk to get into the firmware.
Somewhere on the box will be a model number like 7043-43P. That'll
tell us what you got.
In any case, if you're willing to gamble a couple of cubic feet of
space and some time on a partially-functional project, they're decent
systems and it's probably worth sratching it.
Doc
[1] ISTR there was a 100MHz model but I've never heard of one in the wild