Making the save at the scrappers

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Wed Sep 17 04:36:01 2003

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Mike Ford wrote:

> 4 person sized IBM rolling storage racks, and a pallet stacked as high
> as my head of old servers from UCLA, plus a bin of misc from the same
> place. Sadly I can't take anything big and ALL the hard drives were
> pulled, but anybody interested that can hook up in SoCal/Corona very
> very soon email me asap. Curious stuff I found are stacks of floppies
> that claim to be S/390 microcode from 1991, a dozen maybe 3363 optical
> discs, a stamped metal wrench with an IBM part number, PowerPC
> diagnostic CDs, and piles of misc parts and optical cable. Most of the
> servers were the big double wide chassis monsters, but I did put my name
> on a couple of the smaller ones, a C20 and I think its called a
> WorkStation 400 (desktop PC sized with a odd flip up visor type thing on
> the front. The C20 I think is the last of the MCA designs from IBM, and
> it doesn't look like AIX will be too hard to get, even if I have to buy
> a legal copy.

There were quite a few MCA RS/6000's after the C20.

> Opto22 modules were the literal grab from the breakage bin. Maybe a
> dozen pc boards, half with modules (like logic to 240 vac) and screw
> down connectors, half Sensory Input boards with just screw downs and a
> ribbon connector on the back. Quick check on ebay and looks like my
> retirement plans are on hold, but in a way thats good news since its all
> cheap enough that I can afford to play with it, instead of greedily
> selling it.

That Opto stuff should come in handy. Feel like tossing me a few? Do you
have any of the boards, or just the modules?

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Wed Sep 17 2003 - 04:36:01 BST