[geeks] Hello, my name is Ken, and I am a...

[Mike Nicewonger]

Maybe you can get Linux to run on this? Look at www.yellowdog.com <I think
that is the URL> Some of the power series machines are supported.

Cheers,

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tugrul Galatali" <tugrul at galatali.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Hello, my name is Ken, and I am a...


> On Tue, 8 May 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:
>
> > This morning, on my way in to work, the town my office is in is having a
"big pick-up" (this is when the trash man will take away anything
*reasonable* left on the curb, i.e. no water heaters). On my short jaunt
through town I counted no less than 5 IBM XT/AT clones stacked next to
various trash piles, and I was tempted to stop and take a look. There was
also a Mac IIx (yes, I got close enough to see the model number)...
> >
> > I have a problem.
> >
>
> I somehow managed to spot a RS/6000 in a heap of trash as the elevator
> doors closed on the 3rd floor of the Math/CS building at NYU. I went back
in
> the evening hours and brought it back to the ACM office. Its labelled as a
> PowerServer 340, and it seems complete on the inside. I'm somewhat freaked
I've
> gotten to this point and I'm only 19 with minimal experience with random
> hardware :) But those RS/6000s do have a distinctive color/texture =P
>
> Anyway, to the more important issue, what can I do with this monster.
> There doesn't seem to be as much random information on the web about it as
sun
> boxen do. I'm not quite sure how to id the dual hard drives and their
sizes,
> although they look like Seagate Barracuda's, and from what I gather they
are
> probably 400MB each. The CPU is a 33Mhz POWER-2, which from some SPECint92
> scores I found only puts out half the integer horse that my SM41s in my
SS10
> do. That must be damn slow. All 16 SIMM slots are full, so I assume there
must
> be at least 64MB in there. There is no video out of any sort, so I assume
once
> I manage to get the beast home, I'll hook it upto a serial console.
> The more pressing question is can these boxes do net boot/install like
> sun boxes can. And anybody want to sneak me a copy of AIX 3.2.x or
*cough*4.x
> *cough* if it runs on this thing. The last time I saw AIX get installed
was on
> a 320H off of a tape drive :( Luckily this guy has ethernet, even if its
only
> AUI. Token Ring would have been a dead end at my house.
> (who the hell would want to leave an existing OS installation for a
> box from the dump? Wheres the fun in that :)
>
> Tugrul Galatali (who probably should be sound asleep after completing
> his finals, but is curious about the box :)
>
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