Started up the S/34 - It runs.

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Sun Mar 8 22:17:48 1998

Daniel,

  Does the system 34 use *" floppy disks? I don't know anything about S34
but I think I got a bunch of disks this weekend and I think some them are
original disks for the S 34.

  Joe

At 12:23 PM 3/8/98 -0800, you wrote:
>I went and started the System/34 yesterday... Gave it a good looking-over
>first. The PSU is really interesting - There's a transfomer bigger than my
>head, wires about a quarter-inch thick, and stickers all over that say
>"DANGER! 580 VOLTS!" and "LINE POWER HERE WITH MACHINE POWERED OFF"
>But I found one little note inside which makes me think that it's
single-phase
>reading "INPUT POWER 208V/1PH".
>Anyway, the previous owner gave me a userid and password, so I started
>it up - It's all menuized. Cute. The MACHINE IN USE light is burned out
too.
>Oh - On the CE panel thee's a LAMP TEST button. It turns on ALL the lamps,
>not the the CE-panel lamps. Also, on power-on, you have to push LOAD to
>read in the bootstrap. Then supply it with a username and password.
>I was tld MJR was the system manager - Is that standard on all IBM stuff?
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