18 Aug
2005
18 Aug
'05
10:12 a.m.
dogas at bellsouth.net wrote:
The other day the mailman delivered the bills and a
lead saying a doctor's office around the corner wanted to get rid of their 'big
old' computer. Picture my stationwagon's wheels squealing out of the driveway
moments later. ;)
Turns out to be a IBM PowerServer 520, a 3151 ascii terminal, a 7207 scsi tape, a 4226
printer, a couple of concentrator boxes, and the cabeling to run it all. It boots cleanly
into AIX 3.2 and I've got the root password for it. Sweet, though I didn't get
any media or docs or see a C compiler in there either. Off to the faqs there
It was supprisingly liftable after an earlier experience toting a 'small' AS400.
Pretty standard first-generation RS/6000. Not fast by any means, even
when it came out, but perfectly serviceable, and holds lots of hard disks.
These machines aren't usually that heavy, unless they have significant
numbers of 5.25" FH hard drives in them.
Have fun.
Peace... Sridhar