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pseydtonneGuess what I scored at the Flea today? An IBM 43P Model 140! Fiddy bucks!
I'll tell you non-geeks what this means and then the geeks in the crowd can click on the lj-cut. At work we need an extra machine on the floor that can run a certain operating system called AIX. It doesn't need to be modern; it just needs to run our product so that we can fix things for customers.
Okay, lemme explain this. This is what would now be called a pSeries workstation if it were a little younger. It's an RS/6000 system, meaning the CPU is a PowerPC 604e (32-bit RISC) running at 332 MHz. I think the results from Googlism explain more than a tech sheet would. All you need to know is that it's a touch old-school but it will do what I need.
It doesn't have a hard drive in there. In fact, it doesn't even have the key to unlock the case and the case lock is stuck in the locked position. Since the case is open right now, I am going to take steps to ensure I do not lock myself out of my own computer. I would hate to call the tech number on the box because it's also my tech number and I know what I would do with a caller like me.
It came with CD one of four for AIX 4.3.3, which will work if that is all I can get. I would like to step it to AIX 5.2. I still have to research whether it can handle that. If it cannot, I'll get it to a modicum of spec and be happy anyway. I will test the box first by setting up some distro of Linux and seeing how stable it is. I already ran bootup diagnostics and it had no problems.
For those of you running a count at home, I now have Intel, AMD, RS/6000, PPC G3, Alpha and Sparc64 all in one room. Oh, and an old old Mac laptop with a Motorola 68040. That's a start!
The other news is that I got my buddy John of Twucky (not his real name, just his truck's name) to ratchet my neighbor's fence back to vertical. The slight lean it has had since the plow hit it on Boxing Day is gone. The fence is normal, both in that it's back to being a boring cyclone fence and in that it is perpendicular to the tangent of the ground. It figures the mundanes lose their sanity when something is not normalized. Man, no wonder they fear Dumpster diving. Jon wrote me a bill for legal purposes but we voided the check and I will instead teach him Solaris sysadmin stuff. Man, I owe him a debt of psychological gratitude. I still need to find my neighbor and ask whether we can consider the matter closed.
By the way, I want to thank all of you for commenting on my Saturday morning post. It felt good to know I'm getting read when I need it.
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chaiya!
I'll tell you non-geeks what this means and then the geeks in the crowd can click on the lj-cut. At work we need an extra machine on the floor that can run a certain operating system called AIX. It doesn't need to be modern; it just needs to run our product so that we can fix things for customers.
Okay, lemme explain this. This is what would now be called a pSeries workstation if it were a little younger. It's an RS/6000 system, meaning the CPU is a PowerPC 604e (32-bit RISC) running at 332 MHz. I think the results from Googlism explain more than a tech sheet would. All you need to know is that it's a touch old-school but it will do what I need.
It doesn't have a hard drive in there. In fact, it doesn't even have the key to unlock the case and the case lock is stuck in the locked position. Since the case is open right now, I am going to take steps to ensure I do not lock myself out of my own computer. I would hate to call the tech number on the box because it's also my tech number and I know what I would do with a caller like me.
It came with CD one of four for AIX 4.3.3, which will work if that is all I can get. I would like to step it to AIX 5.2. I still have to research whether it can handle that. If it cannot, I'll get it to a modicum of spec and be happy anyway. I will test the box first by setting up some distro of Linux and seeing how stable it is. I already ran bootup diagnostics and it had no problems.
For those of you running a count at home, I now have Intel, AMD, RS/6000, PPC G3, Alpha and Sparc64 all in one room. Oh, and an old old Mac laptop with a Motorola 68040. That's a start!
The other news is that I got my buddy John of Twucky (not his real name, just his truck's name) to ratchet my neighbor's fence back to vertical. The slight lean it has had since the plow hit it on Boxing Day is gone. The fence is normal, both in that it's back to being a boring cyclone fence and in that it is perpendicular to the tangent of the ground. It figures the mundanes lose their sanity when something is not normalized. Man, no wonder they fear Dumpster diving. Jon wrote me a bill for legal purposes but we voided the check and I will instead teach him Solaris sysadmin stuff. Man, I owe him a debt of psychological gratitude. I still need to find my neighbor and ask whether we can consider the matter closed.
By the way, I want to thank all of you for commenting on my Saturday morning post. It felt good to know I'm getting read when I need it.
-time for a nap and for wishing a happy birthday to
chaiya!
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Date: 2005-07-17 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-17 10:13 pm (UTC)(My boss, the ex Big Blue middle manager deadwood, gets so aggravated every time he needs to get reimbursed even $20 out of the grant money for an out-of-pocket expense. It's amusing, since he pays little attention to, you know, our budget.)
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Date: 2005-07-18 03:01 am (UTC)You are a sick and wonderful man. =)