8 Mar
1998
8 Mar
'98
2:23 p.m.
I went and started the System/34 yesterday... Gave it a good looking-over
first. The PSU is really interesting - There's a transfomer bigger than my
head, wires about a quarter-inch thick, and stickers all over that say
"DANGER! 580 VOLTS!" and "LINE POWER HERE WITH MACHINE POWERED OFF"
But I found one little note inside which makes me think that it's single-phase
reading "INPUT POWER 208V/1PH".
Anyway, the previous owner gave me a userid and password, so I started
it up - It's all menuized. Cute. The MACHINE IN USE light is burned out too.
Oh - On the CE panel thee's a LAMP TEST button. It turns on ALL the lamps,
not the the CE-panel lamps. Also, on power-on, you have to push LOAD to
read in the bootstrap. Then supply it with a username and password.
I was tld MJR was the system manager - Is that standard on all IBM stuff?
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8 Mar
8 Mar
2:55 p.m.
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10:17 p.m.
Daniel,
Does the system 34 use *" floppy disks? I don't know anything about S34
but I think I got a bunch of disks this weekend and I think some them are
original disks for the S 34.
Joe
At 12:23 PM 3/8/98 -0800, you wrote:
I went and started the System/34 yesterday... Gave it a
good looking-over
first. The PSU is really interesting - There's a transfomer bigger than my
head, wires about a quarter-inch thick, and stickers all over that say
"DANGER! 580 VOLTS!" and "LINE POWER HERE WITH MACHINE POWERED OFF"
But I found one little note inside which makes me think that it's
single-phase
reading "INPUT POWER 208V/1PH".
Anyway, the previous owner gave me a userid and password, so I started
it up - It's all menuized. Cute. The MACHINE IN USE light is burned out
too.
Oh - On the CE panel thee's a LAMP TEST button. It
turns on ALL the lamps,
not the the CE-panel lamps. Also, on power-on, you have to push LOAD to
read in the bootstrap. Then supply it with a username and password.
I was tld MJR was the system manager - Is that standard on all IBM stuff?
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10:23 p.m.
Does the system 34 use *" floppy disks? I
don't know anything about S34
but I think I got a bunch of disks this weekend and I think some them are
original disks for the S 34.
Yep, it has a big 8" drive up front, almost
identical in appearance to the
floppy in my Series/1...
I went and started the System/34 yesterday... Gave it a
good looking-over
first. The PSU is really interesting - There's a transfomer bigger than my
head, wires about a quarter-inch thick, and stickers all over that say
"DANGER! 580 VOLTS!" and "LINE POWER HERE WITH MACHINE POWERED OFF"
But I found one little note inside which makes me think that it's single-phase
reading "INPUT POWER 208V/1PH".
Hehe... I love all those warning labels...
They are EVERYWHERE! Maybe I
should try counting all of them that are in my S/1. BTW, I'm almost
finished converting the CPU on my S/1. It runs on 120V now, I tested it a
few minutes ago, now all I have to do is replace the blower fan and put it
back in the rack. And then on to the disk drives...
And I have a System/34 question... How do you tell which model it is? I've
looked at the labels I could find on the S/34 at a local museum, but I
couldn't find anything. Just the 5340 signs.
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9 Mar
9 Mar
9:36 a.m.
[Model # of S/34?]
Mine is written on the IBM shipping info card floating
around on the inside. But I forgot what it was.
BTW, This thing is not too heavy! I pushed it across the room by myself
without too much trouble, just to see if I could do it.
You can move them, provding there's not stairs involved...
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2:05 p.m.
[Not too heavy?]
No, it's just actually not as heavy as it looks. Most of the insides are
air.
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2:55 p.m.
[Not too heavy?]
No, it's just actually not as heavy as it looks. Most of the insides are
air.
Well, that is true. Most big IBMs are that way. IBM still managed to use
some very heavy parts - heavy gauge steel chassis, big stiff transformers,
and disk drives with really big motors.
Still, once a computer tips the scale over 300 or so pounds, I consider it
heavy.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net
10 Mar
10 Mar
2:23 p.m.
At 07:33 AM 3/9/98 -0800, you wrote:
It uses ONLY 8" floppies! What do you have
origionals of?
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Here's a partial list. This is the stuff out of two boxs, there are 7 or
8 more boxs that I haven't gone through. I *think* these codes identify
the disks, that's a lot of other stuff marked on them but it's batch
numbers, dates, etc. Let me know if you know what this stuff is. Almost
all of the stuff is dated 1977.
IDENT. APOPTF2 FCPMR1
IDENT. PM2PTF2 FCPMR1
IDENT. APPUO1
IDENT. FCPML1
IDENT. FCPMU2
IDENT. FCPMU1
IDENT. FCPMS1
IDENT. APPUO1
IDENT. SYSDMP
IDENT. FCPM02
SYSTEM TEST DISKETTE LEVEL A 34AX SYSTEM PARITY VERIFICATION
IDENT. FCPM03
IDENT. FCPMS2
IDENT. FCPMU1
IDENT. FCPMS0
IDENT. APPU01
IDENT. FCPMS1
IDENT. FCPMS2
Joe
1:38 p.m.
SYSDMP is a SYSDMP disk. That's a core dump.
SYSTEM TEST ... is obvious.
The rest look like they could be diags or something...
DO you have something capable of reading them?
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2:57 p.m.
At 11:38 AM 3/10/98 -0800, you wrote:
SYSDMP is a SYSDMP disk. That's a core dump.
SYSTEM TEST ... is obvious.
There are some other system test disks in the other boxs also.
The rest look like they could be diags or something...
DO you have something capable of reading them?
Nope.
Joe
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2:11 p.m.
[S/34 disks]
You obviously don't want to nuke the diags disks.
As far as the other lables, do you have anything like SSP on those lables?
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