IBM RT

[Doc Shipley]

tom ponsford wrote:
> I just rescued a complete IBM RT PC. It includes all the documentation. 
> AIX 2.x software, extra keyboards, extra cards, extra HDD;s and extra 
> tape drives. It also has an extra ESDI hard drive labeled Reno 4.3.

<12-year-old girl>
   OMG!!!
</girl>

   Please to be transcribing all software, sir.

   And if you have one more tape drive than you need, we should 
negotiate offline.

> Was there a port of 4.x BSD to the ROMP processor? I thought that it was 
> tried but not completed.
> 
> There is also a backup tape labeled AOS?

   AOS is IBM's port of BSD.  AOS stands for "Academic Operating 
System".  IIRC, Reno is one of the "after-the-fact" versions of v4.3.

> The whole system looks like its in pretty good condition. And maybe 
> after consuming mass quantities of turkey tomorrow, I'll see if it boots 
> up.


	Doc