Definitely OT: Apple Network Server 500

This is definitely OT. I have, about six feet away from me, a brand spanking hardly used Apple Network Server 500. Nice unit. I've managed to get AIX 4.1.4.0 on it (provided with the system) and CDE runs well. No cc or xlc, but we have some RS/6000s here, so I built gcc on one of them and copied the binaries over and now I have a Perl and a decent compiler (had to steal as from the RS/6000s also). It's a 603e PPC emulating an RS/6000 (!), 132MHz, 32MB RAM. Fast sucker. Bookstore buys this guy to handle their database system, vendor says we don't support it, so it goes into the server room powered off for almost two years until the tech guy decides he doesn't want it anymore and tells me I can use it to my heart's content if I can fix it. So I did! :-) Quick question: are there any AIX gurus out there? I need to upgrade this box to 4.1.5 or some Y2K compliant version. I have a contact at IBM who might be able to get me the upgrade, but I was wondering if anyone out there has the patches already. 4.2 is apparently right out as I doubt IBM supports the POWER architecture anymore, but I'd like to be pleasantly surprised. I've also thought about linuxppc on this. Any ideas from those willing to perpetuate yet another OT thread? ;-) Naturally, Apple doesn't support the NS line anymore. Figures. -- -------------------------- personal page: http://calvin.ptloma.edu/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser Database Programmer/Administrative Computing Point Loma Nazarene University Fax: +1 619 849 2581 ckaiser(a)ptloma.edu Phone: +1 619 849 2539 -- Art is either plagiarism or revolution. -- Paul Gauguin --------------------