31 Dec
1999
31 Dec
'99
1:41 a.m.
Hi Paul,
The above item fell into my possession today. It
appears to be
circa 1990, contains three hard disks (or DASD, if you prefer),
a 150mb QIC tape drive, and a twinax interface card.
Nice, sounds a lot like my AS/400.
In fact, looking through the AS/400 handbook it would appear that what you
have is an AS/400 9404 Model C10. I THINK this is what I have, mine is a
9404 but I'm not sure if it's a C10, C20 or C30.
I've got the expansion cabinet with mine, which I think makes it a C20 or
30?
The IBM web site indicates this machine supports a
whopping 20MB of
RAM and 2GB of hard drive space....
If you haven't already got it I recommend downloading the AS/400 handbook
from the IBM website. It's a 5.15Mb
".pdf" file, but well worth the download
time!
....It still has an OS on the disks if I can remember
which drive went
in which bay in the machine (or if the id is in the drive rather than
the backplane)
I don't know how drive IDs are assigned, I'm still trying to get mine to
power up.... :-(
BTW You do have the system security number don't you? Without this you'll
have to reinstall the OS every 30 days or so, from what I've been told.
From a quick once over the disk/DASD appear to be
SCSI, as does the
QIC tape. Can anyone confirm?
Correct.
If you do manage to get yours working drop me a note, I've been wrestling
with mine for some 4 months and gotten exactly nowhere so far.
TTFN - Pete.
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