On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:06:14 -0700 (PDT) "Jeff Davis" <jdaviscl2 at soupwizard.com> wrote: It's possible, if you want to just get a system powered up and tested, that one of the disks you received has a working AIX on it. You won't get past the login prompt, but you can 'bring it up' to that point. I have an ancient POWER1 IBM box (a PowerStation 320H) that I've never connected video or a keyboard to. (anybody got a microchannel bus video card for it supported by AIX?) You should monitor for a console on the first serial port after watching the LED readout (is there one on your generation of machine). On mine, there is a VERY long blind period when all you have as feedback are the LED codes. Then all of a sudden the serial console wakes up. There still are support documents for my machine at IBM's website and I suspect yours may be newer. AIX install media is out there. If you're just a tinkerer and/or wanting the machine 'running and live' as a hobby pursuit, it shouldn't be that hard to locate a CD install set. A legal gray area. They don't use an ISO9660 filesystem (I don't think,) but the CD sets duplicate readily on Unix CD buring software that can read and write raw CD as images, (once you've obtained your original media kit and want to make a backup kit to protect your investment, of course)