IBM

HI~!

I am gonna get this tomorrow.
I were thinking of installing OS/2 on it, but someone on the channel did remind me about AIX for PS/2.
Don't worry, I won't use it on the blanket. And the person I'll get it from is a son of a guy who is hoarding old hardware "because it might come in handy later". When I was first visiting him, i had to go over a CRT display, which was standing in the doors, to get in his room - it was THIS MUCH hoarded.

Now, to the fun part:

1. I seriously hope it's Model 80. Is it, right?
2. I'll try to install AIX for PS/2 1.3. Would be better if I had a SCSI controller for Micro Channel (I have 50pin hard drives already. Including RZ24.)
3. ^ Anyone selling a SCSI controller for this setup, in a reasonable price? (like, under $50 with shipping to Poland).
4. ^^ Ethernet would be cool, too. Because there *are* cards with a RJ45 socket for it.
5. Does AIX for PS/2 have the xwd utility?
6. ^ Can floppies formatted in AIX be readable on a modern-ish system?
7. ^^ How could I split files / compress on it, so I can decompress/join them on a modern-ish system?

Yes, I am aware that 2MB is not a lot of memory - but I highly doubt that I would be able to buy the MCA memory expansion.
Oh, and also I would be grateful if I could get a case for it ^^

Cool!

I've just converted my AIX 1.3 box to OS2 2.1. (PS/2 76i)

Getting an ethernet with AUI will give you options over 10Base2 or 10BaseT.

Not sure specifically about AIX, but in general older UNIXes either had FAT filesystem access (mtools is an option in many cases if not), or used tar/cpio direct to the device. Yeah, you could potentially put a UNIX filesystem on the floppy, but few people actually did that.

So, it's a 80, I believe it's a 8580-071.

When starting up, it gave me errors:

601 [ General diskette or adapter failure]
161 [ Dead CMOS battery]
163 [ CMOS error; Clock is not updating]

The only thing I can do is to get into the BASIC interpreter.

1. I hope it's *not* the controller, but the floppy drive itself.
1.1. Anyone has a spare one?
2. It seems the HDD is working, but either there is no bootable system on it, or the computer is dependent on the FDD being plugged into it. Which failed.

I found a replacement battery chart, so I might get one and try to fix it.
Photos are here , and this is the setup I used.

First get a charged battery of some kind attached, then get the CMOS settings set. Your call if you want to preserve the machine or rework the battery connection to use something more common than whatever IBM used.

The only thing you can do when the battery has gone flat and you get the 161 error, is to boot the reference diskette and get the CMOS settings set, or go into BASIC. It doesn't matter if you have an OS on the hard drive or not. It will never be looked at, because until the settings are set the computer doesn't even know it has a hard drive.

I wrote the reference diskette image into a floppy and got the battery. I placed the battery into the socket at the speaker thing, and a floppy into the FDD .


At first time, it gave me all three errors, now just gives me those CMOS-related, and doesn't seem to want to boot from a floppy. It does nothing after printing error codes. When I get to the diskette animation and i try to boot from it, it tries to do something with the floppy and returns me to BASIC.

I just happen to have a microchannel scsi controller: http://ps-2.kev009.com/ohlandl/SCSI/MCS ... CS-600_700
How about $12.50 + ship?
Regular mail to poland would be $17, priority mail $24.

I also *think* I have a microchannel ethernet. Let me know if you want me to check.

Cool we might go for it, just not right now - in few weeks, perhaps?


Yes please.

Does the floppy drive have an edge connector? Would a PS/2 50 or 70 FDD be compatible with it?

http://mypage.intergate.ca/~fspencer/8580d144.htm - cart-edge.

Ok, I do have a mca ethernet card: an Intel "MCA LAN ADAPTER". Coax and AUI, can be 10BT with an AUI adapter. Looks just like the one here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-306448-00 ... 232a40e9d4

Drivers still seem to be available if you poke around intel's site: http://downloadmirror.intel.com/326/eng/E16lan.txt

Joekster: I will have to think seriously about that. Unless I won't be able to get it to work properly, then sorry, no deal.

All: I borrowed another floppy drive, from Gl1zda. The same result, just now doesn't show the FDD error. ._.