9370 is a dog! Was: Re: Re[2]: Firsts

At 13:15 13-01-98 -0500, William Donzelli <william(a)ans.net> wrote: I'll agree it's no problem. I got the old 9370 from my company setting at home. Paid an official $1 to act as a transfer of ownership. It's just barely a classic now. Obsolete as heck -not too long after we paid $200k+ for it in '86/'87. Lot of Tylenol used to sooth aching back muscles when I dragged it home piece-by-piece. (Should have seen the wife look at me...) It's a dog, but nevertheless, something important in the line of S/370 lineage which I literally rescued from the dumpster. Notably, it is said to be the first actual production unit sold. Don't exactly recall complete serial number, but it probably is first since it is something like xxx0001. Will get back to the list later with SN, etc. if anybody interested in confirming this. I need OS books (VSE, I think) and help in bringing her completely up. Xerox, I believe, kept the OS manuals since they did all the software maintenace under contract. IBM did hardware maintenance, of course. We used the Xerox Business Management System (XBMS) product to run our company. Have virtually all other hardware books and most periferal books safely at home. Heard that AIX could run on the 9370 under (I think) VM or something. Any AIX and VM OS's around that I could scrounge for this iron?? Have tried to bring it up at home but, apparently, lack of certain periferals it expects to see hung off the terminal ports causes the IPL to quit before OS completely loads. Need a guru or present-day user to help figure this out. Any of you folks willing to help me with this project later in the year??? Wife and I just bought another house and will not be settled until summertime or later. I'm making provisions during my rewiring of the house to include a 30A double-pole breaker since the 9370 takes 230V, single phase. Will duct the air coming out of the CPU to heat the house instead of using the furnace (just kidding, but there's quite a few BTUs dumped outta the thing and could keep the house above freezing in the winter at least.) Will tell the list anything more on this machine if any interest. Regards, Chris -- -- ======================================================= Christian Fandt Phone: +716-488-1722 -Home 111 Harding Avenue +716-661-1832 -Office Jamestown, New York Fax: +716-661-1888 -Office fax 14701-4746 USA email: cfandt(a)servtech.com