19 Jan
2008
19 Jan
'08
4:18 p.m.
Jason T wrote:
Hi all - I've got a line on this old AIX box, with
the monitor, books,
etc (not sure about O/S media but I think that can be "found.") Any
opinions on it? Any historical significance ("first machine run
____," etc?)
It's cheap, but it will have to be shipped, which may not be cheap.
A lot of the stuff that was available from IBM has been posted in
archives that can be found with some searching. Just be prepared to
support a machine with a 1.2MB high density floppy habit, and a 60 or
150mb quarter inch tape habit. I have all my machines, software and
drives "archived" and can't help much but they are nice machines.
Only thing to watch for is whether it has 40mb or 110mb drives (or even
20mb). They used the seagates st whatevers, which might be a bit scarce
these days.
I heard rumors that one could get ide controllers to work in them, but a
fire put a halt to my playing as I lost all but 2 of the boxes, and spares.
AIX 2.1 and AOS are the two OS's to look for.
Jim