19 Jan
2008
19 Jan
'08
6:09 p.m.
Yeah. I'd pick one up if you're interested. the ROMP chip was not much
of a speed demon, but it is granddaddy to the RS6k and all that
followed after. And also remember that these things used funky ESDI
drives, I think mostly Maxstor, I think they topped out at 320MB.
Several quirks too about that ESDI, not everything could be made to
work. I remember Ungermann-Bass thick ethernet cards and of course
Token Ring were options. The megapixel console monitor had real slow
graphics but it could use a Hercules card. The terminal cards had odd
AMP connectors on 'em I think. Ideally you get one with the slightly
faster cpu card that had added the moto fpu. Nifty toy to play with.
AOS is a relatively pure 4.3 port but that might be harder to come by.
Good luck!
On Jan 19, 2008, at 7:18 PM, jim s 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.
A lot of the stuff that was available from IBM has been posted in
archives that can be found with some searching. Just be prepared to
support a machine with a 1.2MB high density floppy habit, and a 60
or 150mb quarter inch tape habit. I have all my machines, software
and drives "archived" and can't help much but they are nice machines.
Only thing to watch for is whether it has 40mb or 110mb drives (or
even 20mb). They used the seagates st whatevers, which might be a
bit scarce these days.
I heard rumors that one could get ide controllers to work in them,
but a fire put a halt to my playing as I lost all but 2 of the
boxes, and spares.
AIX 2.1 and AOS are the two OS's to look for.
Jim