IBM RS/6k

From: David Woyciesjes <DAW_at_yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
Date: Wed Feb 6 12:49:33 2002

> ----------
> From: Pat Finnegan
>
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Pat Finnegan wrote:
>
> > Over at Purdue Salvage, they have an RS/6000 Model 7013 'space heater'
> > sized system. On the front it says 'Power Server 560(590?)' Any ideas
> on
> > value, and is anyone interested?
>
> It is aparently a PowerServer 550L, has 64M of ram (filled card), some
> sort of framebuffer card (TI DSP's on it and 3 mini-coax connectors stuck
> in a DE-9 or DA-15 connector shell, like a Sun video connector, but
> without the extra pins), builtin 10Base2 and AUI ethernet, SCSI, 3 hard
> drive, tape drive, floppy drive, and probably other things I'm fogetting
> to mention.
>
> One of the hard drives (which I have yet to determine the size of) was
> completely unhooked from the scsi bus and power, so it's probably either a
> spare or broken..
>
> Any ideas on where to get a bootable tape so I can reset root's password
> (haven't booted it yet, still gotta try that first.)
>
> -- Pat
> West Lafayette, IN
>
I do say, dear boy, that sounds like a nice little score!

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