[rescue] RS/6000??

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Nice to know any terminal might work. I can get a 100 or 220, and make
the cable with a pinout. (Failed at the Mac 512 to Linux serial cable,
though...)

Don't know that I'll get software with either of them, so the way it
installs is probably academic. However, with the comments that you and
James made, I'm considering getting the 59H and then *later* figuring
out how to tell my wife. ;) Sound familiar? Sounds like a cool machine,
and she's cool enough to understand (for less than $100 anyway)...

Then I guess I need to figure out how to get an OS, if it doesn't have
one. Can't expect too much for under $50. For that price in the PeeCee
world you*might* get a 286. Hmmm. I could run minix and a web server on
a 286 though...

This 59H says it has all PCI slots free (?). I just wrote to ask about a
network connection, too. We'll see. Did some RS/6000 machines have PCi
architecture, like new Suns?

So fit a PDP-10 into *one* truck? I remeber the one we had being several
refrigerator-sized cases, and slow as... well, you know... as a PDP-10.

dave at cca.org wrote:
> 
> ssandau at bath.tmac.com writes:
> 
> >Do I need a monitor and keyboard for an RS/6000, or can I just hook up a
> >VT100 and null modem cable like a SPARC? Or is that too general a
> >question?
> 
> VT100 works fine. There's something stupid about function keys... I
> think it will take an [esc]n when it says it wants function key n,
> something like that. Fucking full-screen install software, bleah.
> The console serial port is probably not DB25, hopefully you'll get
> that weird cable. The early ones used a weird connector for external
> SCSI. Make sure it has ethernet. 32-bit MCA ethernet cards are
> obscenely expensive on the used market.
> 
> >The RS/6000 I was looking at on eBay appears to be a desktop style (a
> >7011-250??). There's also a 59H which the seller tells me is
> >23"x25"x14". (Now that's a computer! Tho, not quite as much as the
> >PDP-10 I worked on in college...) Sounds a little like the 3B2s that the
> >Navy office I work in sometimes used to have. I constantly offered to
> >take one when they tossed 'em, but they have to DRMO that stuff (dispose
> >of in Navy channels). *sigh*
> 
> I haven't got a clue about IBM model numbers.  I think the 7xxx number
> is the case, and the rest is the guts they shoved in, but I don't know
> what any specific models are.
> 
> Mine was originally a nice 5' thousand pound box, but I had to abandon
> the cabinet the last time I moved. Wouldn't make the stairs of the new
> apartment. :-( It's spread out across a couple of short cabinets now.
> 
> >Shipping for the 59H would be more than the cost of the unit itself!
> >Actually, now that I think of it, *most* of my eBay computer purchases
> >are like that... Hmmmmm...
> 
> Yeah, that's standard. Our PDP-10 was free plus a $300 truck rental,
> if I remember correctly.
> 
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