29 Oct
2005
29 Oct
'05
5:10 p.m.
Doc Shipley 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.
That's a *very* nice machine. That's the IBM plastic which is stronger
than steel. 8-)
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.
Time for someone to be drawn and quartered in effigy.
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.
Excellent!
Peace... Sridhar