[rescue] IBM RS6000 43P-140

[Thomas Gallaway]

Eric Webb wrote:

>On Monday 19 April 2004 09:16 pm, Thomas Gallaway wrote:
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>>Just found a IBM RS6k 43P-140. Wont show anything on the monitor but has
>>VGA. It has PS2 so I assume it
>>might be set to console. Will check that later.
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>RS/6000's (generally, there are some exceptions) don't do anything on the 
>serial port until after the OS is well on its way to being up (that's what 
>the LED is for).  Plug in a tube and standard PS/2 keyboard/mouse and you can 
>access the SMS screens for some very basic "diag" information and config.  
>Just press (or press several times) the F1 key in between the chirp sound 
>effect and the fanfare sound effect.  (Or is it F10?)
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Hmm there is no chirp sound so far. And no fanfare. It is a F22.

>>It says' model 7043-140 on the front and 604e-200Mhz.
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>>Anybody know if that is a nice box? I want to start playing with AIX so
>>I guess this might be perfect for that.
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>Slower, but it will let you play around for sure.  Will run anything up to 
>5.1, but no 5.2 since it's prep.
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>-E.
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Going to play a bit more now. Maybe it's just borked.