29 Oct
2005
29 Oct
'05
9:49 a.m.
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
vrs wrote:
I can attest to that. Pat Finnegan shipped me a 7013-591 last year.
It's a deskside POWER RS/6000, roughly the size of a DEC BA123
chassis. It's a reinforced composite frame, so much lighter than a BA123.
Patrick padded and boxed it with his usual zeal, but it arrived at my
house looking like FedEx towed the carton to my house on a rope.
Several of the memory boards were unseated, as were the SCSI and
ethernet MCA cards, and the frame itself was cracked.
The design of that system prevents any of the boards from bouncing
around inside even after coming out of their slots. I reseated
everything, checked all the heatsinks and system board connections, put
a BandAid on the frame break that's visible, and put it in service.
Doc
From: "Bob Bradlee" <Bob at
BRADLEE.ORG>
Most IBM retail kit (the stuff they use for EPOS) would survive that
quite happily. You might want to reseat some cables and reboot, just
like we tell the people in the stores to do. In the referb center we pushed them off moving
vans and
No wonder there are so few of these machines left ;-)!
(I have always heard that the van should be stopped, and the machine
lowered slowly :-).)
Vince