See embedded comments On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Peter Pachla wrote: By the look of the IBM docs, the >C10 models appear to support more than one bus, so it could very well be. Someone was kind enough to handwrite a 16 hexadecimal digit number labeled "Sys Pw" on the inside of the case. Does that sound the right format for a system security number? It is not the serial number which like on a RS/6000 appears on the front panel in a xx-xxxxx format. Mine also does not want to boot, but I believe that is because I don't have a console hooked up yet. I have a twinax terminal for this purpose, which from my browsing of the AS400 documentation leads me to believe has to be set to "device 0/0". I did bring a twinax mux like thing that the original console was plugged into, although I did not have room for the original console terminal in my car. I had to disassemble the whole machine to get the pedestal unit light enough to lift into my trunk/back seat. I took apart what appeared to be the CPU board last night, having to break the spiffy little AS/400 holograms over some of the screws. The board was replete with many custom IBM chips none of which I recognized. I reassembled the CPU board and it refused to boot with exactly the same SRC codes as it did before, so I assume I did not zap anything. I did not see anything that resembled RAM anywhere but on the main CPU board, so I assume mine has the default 8 meg of memory. I worked at a city hall as an intern in college in the early 90's and wrote various RPG queries on the AS400. I probably have not touched an AS400 since. I developed quite a bad reputation back then among the city hall IT staff for getting into city databases where I was not allowed. Getting the commerical building contact names from the fire department database updated monthly by the firemen sure beat going door to door as I was told to do, especially during that crappy, rainy summer. Their security mechanisms seemed to rely on the lack of computer literacy of the city employees. As a result I unfairly came to associate AS/400's with lazy sysadmins who resented getting interrupted during their coffee breaks, which seemed inordinately frequent. Thanks, and keep me posted if you have any progress. Paul

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