New POWER toys

[Sridhar Ayengar]

dogas at bellsouth.net wrote:
> The other day the mailman delivered the bills and a lead saying a doctor's office around the corner wanted to get rid of their 'big old' computer.  Picture my stationwagon's wheels squealing out of the driveway moments later.  ;)
> 
> Turns out to be a IBM PowerServer 520, a 3151 ascii terminal, a 7207 scsi tape, a 4226 printer, a couple of concentrator boxes, and the cabeling to run it all.  It boots cleanly into AIX 3.2 and I've got the root password for it.  Sweet, though  I didn't get any media or docs or see a C compiler in there either.  Off to the faqs there
> 
> It was supprisingly liftable after an earlier experience toting a 'small' AS400.

Pretty standard first-generation RS/6000.  Not fast by any means, even 
when it came out, but perfectly serviceable, and holds lots of hard disks.

These machines aren't usually that heavy, unless they have significant 
numbers of 5.25" FH hard drives in them.

Have fun.

Peace...  Sridhar