20 Jan
2008
20 Jan
'08
10:23 a.m.
Good point about the keyboard and mouse connector ends, I forgot about
that. I recall someone saying that specific very old Adaptec SCSI
cards were possibilities too but I no longer remember the details. I'm
going to guess that driver support for AIX would be more difficult
than AOS.
On Jan 20, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Doc Shipley wrote:
Jason T wrote:
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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.
Cheap will not be the word. My RT weighs nearly 75 pounds, and
that's *without* the full-height ESDI drives.
If you can find an ISA IDE/FDC card without serial and parallel and
without PC "BIOS entensions", a Seagate IDE Medalist under 2GB will
work fine. I've got one running in mine.
My RT has got the advanced processor board, and it's about as fast
as you'd expect from a 16MHz/16MB computer running a fairly
heavyweight OS, AIX v2.2.1.
Make sure you get the keyboard, at least. It's a proprietary
interface, and I've never heard of anyone adapting a different
keyboard for it. Same for the mouse, and if you happen to get 2, I
get dibs on the spare! :)
The story I got from an IBM developer is that the PC/RT was ready
for market in 1981, but for some reason IBM did not release it till
'86. By then it was mostly outclassed by the competition and its
own price, so IBM didn't sell many of them.