Chris, Joe and Steve between them managed to say:
>> > I have an opprotunity to get an IBM 5360 (looks like a System/36 to
>> >me) with a 5224 printer (heavy beast!) and a 5291-2 monochrome display.
>> >Does anyone have any information on this, like how I can determine the
>> >amount of DASD in it, how much RAM, and what I can do with it?
[...]
> There seem to be a BUNCH of variants of the 536X systems so it's hard to
> predict what's gonna be inside. I think mine is an early example because it
> will only support drives up to 60MB each. Currently, it has a 60MB and a
> 30MB drive installed. I think some of the later models had drives in the
> 1GB range but, I'm not positive of that.
5360 is the physically biggest system/36 - the size of a system/34 (5340). My
experience is more with system/34 than system/36, but 60MB per drive sounds even
lower than we had on our s/34 - must be a very early s/36
To return to Chris's question, I seem to recall some information appearing on
the screen during boot. I think the terminal must be set to address 0 (or
possibly 1 if 0 isn't valid) and stuck on the lowest-numbered twinax chain. It
then will automatically be the console, and will display all this junk.
FWIW our system/34 had 224K bytes of RAM of which one 2K block had died. Of
disk space I think it had 256MB, but I can't remember if this was four drives or
six. Big things with multiple platters, anyway.
Finally, as I can seldom resist saying, the 5340 and 5360 have the nicest floppy
drive I've ever met. Twenty-three disks all in it at once...
Philip.
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