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

By the way, this machine will run newish OS.  Anything up to and 
including AIX 5.1.  5.2 requires PCI/CHRP.

Peace...  Sridhar