IBM PowerStation 320H...

From: ndiablo_at_diablonet.net <(ndiablo_at_diablonet.net)>
Date: Fri Oct 5 22:19:37 2001

Hi!

I just picked up an IBM PowerStation 320H from the property disposition
warehouse of my friendly educational institution. It seems to be in relatively
good shape with all components present, but all I could really afford was the
system unit (which was only one dollar).

Although the University seems to be pretty consistent with wiping the hard
drives of all the machines that it disposes of, I'm still rather eager to try
and power it up and see what the firmware's like, and whether or not it is
ACTUALLY wiped. Since I don't have a monitor/keyboard/mouse for it, though,
my only option is to try to use a serial console.

Unfortunately, these machines use a really wierd 10-pin serial port. I've
tried searching around on the Internet for a pinout, but to no avail. Does
anyone here have any idea how I can break this out to something more
standard? I think I remember reading somewhere it was rather similar to the
PC-RT serial ports...

Thanks for any help!

--Sean Caron (root_at_diablonet.net) | http://www.diablonet.net
Received on Fri Oct 05 2001 - 22:19:37 BST

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