Japanese computers

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Doc Shipley wrote:
>   I can attest to that.  Pat Finnegan shipped me a 7013-591 last year. 
>  It's a deskside POWER RS/6000, roughly the size of a DEC BA123 
> chassis.  It's a reinforced composite frame, so much lighter than a BA123.

That's a *very* nice machine.  That's the IBM plastic which is stronger 
than steel.  8-)

>   Patrick padded and boxed it with his usual zeal, but it arrived at my 
> house looking like FedEx towed the carton to my house on a rope. Several 
> of the memory boards were unseated, as were the SCSI and ethernet MCA 
> cards, and the frame itself was cracked.

Time for someone to be drawn and quartered in effigy.

>   The design of that system prevents any of the boards from bouncing 
> around inside even after coming out of their slots.  I reseated 
> everything, checked all the heatsinks and system board connections, put 
> a BandAid on the frame break that's visible, and put it in service.

Excellent!

Peace...  Sridhar