6 Nov
2000
6 Nov
'00
3:44 a.m.
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 13:32:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Subject: Re: RS6000 memory boards
Enrico Badella <enrico.badella(a)softstar.it> wrote:
Then Cameron Kaiser
<spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu> said:
> Yesterday I saved two IBM RS6000 server; one
7013/59H and one 7013/530H.
...
should I just
junk the whole things and just save the four SCSI disks?
That's what I would do. The old RS6K servers are
quite tough to find support
for ... Keep the disks for something that can really use 'em.
However, if you still want to take a whack at it, sometimes people are
selling equipment on comp.unix.aix. The prices can be quite confiscatory,
though.
Whoa, there. Sitting in my office, still looking dark and forlorn,
is a PowerStation 320 (Type 7012). A large part of its forlornness is due
to its having had its mouse and keyboard "liberated" at some point in its
life. The ugly part is it doesn't need just any PS/2 KB and 3-button mouse,
but a special IBM one. (Thanks to Philip Belben
<Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk> for this clue. Philip, I still have not had
time to seriously attack this machine.) Enrico, I don't know that I can pay
to ship them from Italy to San Antonio, Texas but if your machines include
those and you can't find a European stockpile to add those to, please
contact me. Please *don't* junk those parts!
If the machines you are talking about contain MCA Ethernet cards,
the same applies to them, and again I might be interested in trying to get
them shipped to Texas.
Cameron, thanks for the newsgroup pointer, it's in my read list now.
Anyone else with spare RS6K keyboards and mice taking up some of
their valuable storage space, I think I can help you. :-)
- Mark
PS my last messagee appeared twice. My apologies; I can't figure out how I
did that. If it happens again, somebody please send a clue?
6 Nov
6 Nov
4:32 a.m.
Mark Tapley wrote:
Whoa, there. Sitting in my office, still looking dark and forlorn,
is a PowerStation 320 (Type 7012). A large part of its forlornness is due
to its having had its mouse and keyboard "liberated" at some point in its
life. The ugly part is it doesn't need just any PS/2 KB and 3-button mouse,
but a special IBM one. (Thanks to Philip Belben
With AIX 3.x you need real IBM keyboards and mice, but from 4.x you can just
use some PC junk. I installed 4.2.1 on one of the 320H and it works fine.
Can even run Netscape 4.72, slooooowly but it runs. If you don't use X in
is not so bad.
<Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk> for this clue.
Philip, I still have not had
time to seriously attack this machine.) Enrico, I don't know that I can pay
to ship them from Italy to San Antonio, Texas but if your machines include
those and you can't find a European stockpile to add those to, please
contact me. Please *don't* junk those parts!
Probably I'll be in SFO a the end of November so it would be cheaper to
exchange some stuff.
If the machines you are talking about contain
MCA Ethernet cards,
the same applies to them, and again I might be interested in trying to get
them shipped to Texas.
Yeah, they are all MCA
e.
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4:59 a.m.
Enrico Badella wrote:
With AIX 3.x you need real IBM keyboards and mice, but
from 4.x you can just
use some PC junk. I installed 4.2.1 on one of the 320H and it works fine.
Can even run Netscape 4.72, slooooowly but it runs. If you don't use X in
is not so bad.
Ouch! I've still got a RS/6000 390 on my desk at work because I refuse to
move to NT. Trust me, run Netscape 3.03, a lot of sites can't handle it,
but the old RS6k's can't handle Nescrape 4! Save 4 for the pages 3 can't
handle!
Zane
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10:17 a.m.
New subject: RS6000 rundown
>With AIX 3.x you need real IBM keyboards and mice,
but from 4.x you can just
>use some PC junk. I installed 4.2.1 on one of the 320H and it works fine.
Ouch! I've still got a RS/6000 390 on my desk at
work because I refuse to
One of the places I visit gets a lot of servers, mostly fairly new off
lease stuff way too expensive for me, but they also get a fair amount of
old things like these IBM PowerPC servers. I need to add a new category to
my collecting like a hole in the head, but they are kind of available and I
am fairly curious about them, but I don't have a clue about what I should
be looking for or paying.
Any links or comments on the IBM desktop sized server line? I am fairly up
to speed through the last of the MCA machines, ie server 300 or 500?, but
then what?
What would make a good machine to collect?
Any specfics on things like keyboards etc. I should be looking for?
6:12 p.m.
New subject: RS6000 rundown
Mike Ford wrote:
One of the places I visit gets a lot of servers, mostly fairly new off
lease stuff way too expensive for me, but they also get a fair amount of
old things like these IBM PowerPC servers. I need to add a new category to
my collecting like a hole in the head, but they are kind of available and I
am fairly curious about them, but I don't have a clue about what I should
be looking for or paying.
Paying as little as possible :-) I picked up my 7013 59H for free at
the owner's site. They are quite well configured. CD, HP DAT, 16 GB disks
in 8 disks onfortunately no RAM. RATS GRRRR
Any links or comments on the IBM desktop sized server
line? I am fairly up
to speed through the last of the MCA machines, ie server 300 or 500?, but
Forget the 7012 3xx, if you can try to get a 7011, nothing terrific but usable.
I
got two of them each with 64M RAM. I moved all the RAM in one and it is a
nice desktop, nothing comparable to modern Sun like boxes but what can I pretend
from a free PowerPC ....
What would make a good machine to collect?
Any specfics on things like keyboards etc. I should be looking for?
The 7011 accept PC keyboard & mouse with all versions of AIX. The 7012
only with AIX 4.x
You will find the 70xx label generally on the front,top, right corner of the
box.
If you see a 7012/59H in the place you visit can you ask if you can
just purchase the RAm boards and for how much
TIA
e.
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5:59 p.m.
"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
Ouch! I've still got a RS/6000 390 on my desk at work because I refuse to
move to NT. Trust me, run Netscape 3.03, a lot of sites can't handle it,
but the old RS6k's can't handle Nescrape 4! Save 4 for the pages 3 can't
I know but that was just a test. I prefer running N4 on my Sun Ultra 5
with 512M RAM :-) since it frequently crashes on my NT box.
e.
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10143 Torino, Italy
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