20 Jan
2008
20 Jan
'08
7:47 a.m.
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, jim s wrote:
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?)
>
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.
Not a rumor! I have a 1GB Seagate IDE drive in mine. The older and
clunkier the bus adapter, the better. Also, there's a SCSI driver
floating around that supports the Adaptec 1540B and lets you use a SCSI
tape drive of any convenient size.
Steve
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