17 May
2011
17 May
'11
9:11 a.m.
The Rhode Island Computer Museum has a PR1ME Computer that says it is
a model SE50M on the back of the CPU cabinet. I can't find any
reference to that model number. Any idea how to identify this system?
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Michael Thompson
17 May
17 May
9:44 a.m.
--- On Tue, 5/17/11, Michael Thompson <michael.99.thompson at gmail.com> wrote:
The Rhode Island Computer Museum has
a PR1ME Computer that says it is
a model SE50M on the back of the CPU cabinet. I can't find
any
reference to that model number. Any idea how to identify
this system?
That looks kind of like a 9950, but there were several 9000 series machines with the same
control panel/cabinet though. Take the microcode disk out of the drive (the one on the
left), and there should be a number on it. (DSK-xxx). I can look the microcode part number
up in my manuals and tell you what CPU it has.
-Ian
11:11 a.m.
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Subject: Re: PR1ME Computer SE50M
--- On Tue, 5/17/11, Michael Thompson <michael.99.thompson at gmail.com>
wrote:
One of my coworkers also suggests it's likely a 9950, definitely a later machine
intended as a departmental resource. He also has no idea where the SE50M designation came
from. -- Ian
The Rhode Island Computer Museum has
a PR1ME Computer that says it is
a model SE50M on the back of the CPU cabinet. I can't find
any
reference to that model number. Any idea how to identify
this system?
That looks kind of like a 9950, but there were several 9000 series
machines with the same control panel/cabinet though. Take the microcode
disk out of the drive (the one on the left), and there should be a
number on it. (DSK-xxx). I can look the microcode part number up in my
manuals and tell you what CPU it has.
-Ian 
10:10 a.m.
The Rhode Island Computer Museum has a PR1ME Computer
that says it is a
model SE50M on the back of the CPU cabinet. I can't find any reference
to that model number. Any idea how to identify this system?
The CPU boards are in the upper backplane, the two or three boards
connected via top-hats. They'll have a label on the back edge giving
the board model number. I can probably look them up from that.
The numbers will be in one of two formats: 9999-999, or TLA10999-999.
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