The collected works of ClassicHasClass - Page 8

I name my servers after Scandinavian cities and there's a whole long story behind that, but tl;dr my AIX boxen are generally all "from Sweden" and uppsala was the successor to stockholm, my Apple Network Server 500, which is now a backup box and will eventually be turned into an overgrown workstation in a place of honour for its many years of service to me.



On this two-way POWER6, it can run four execution threads simultaneously. This will be important to account for as IBM doubles down on this strategy for POWER8.

What model was that, Shade? My quad doesn't have that. In fact, the red light should extinguish after POST.

Easy, just use iostat or vmstat, as in my example above.

The most portable way that would work with nearly any version of AIX of any recent vintage is to see if vmstat/iostat lists an lcpu figure, and if it doesn't, fall back on lsattr or some such.

That reminds me, I should fire up the HP 9000/350 and see what it does with that. Unfortunately the C8000 is not set up right now.

I'm trying to remember if I dropped acid today or not.

Dude, jealous. The 200LX is hot. An overclocked 200LX is super hot.

That might be. I haven't looked inside my Sawtooth or MDDs when they're running, but on the quad the red LED lights briefly on startup and then goes out (you can see it through the front of the case) and I think all the G5s are like that.

Apologies to the Mac Pro owners.

I'm curious about this myself since the Altix seems like a nice way to get an Itanic in my collection that can "do stuff."

Thanks, man! I need to update that -- the Fuel took the C8000's slot in the KVM because it's getting much more use. I need to find somewhere to put it, though, because I really have a soft spot for PA-RISC.



It's on my list, though I would prefer something in a workstation form factor rather than YA rackmount system, and an SGI Itanic is a bonus. But I've thought about those too.

Is there anywhere to look at that? I might consider running Linux on one of my two C8Ks, though I'd like to keep one running HP-UX because I have stockholm syndrome and I just can't stay away from it.

Okay. I await with interest.

Yes, my understanding is that the Altixes (Alticies?) only run the big L, though I wouldn't be surprised if there were a NetBSD port brewing somewhere. (The prerequisite for that is getting the ia64 port working and I understand that is still very experimental.)

Now posting from Firefox 3 with 4GB of awesome! Thanks dhjj for the DIMMs!

Still, that's pretty awesomesauce!

I never did post my little Indy's current specs, did I? I adore the Fuel, but the Indy still has the "special place in my heart."

Ah, but this one *does* have the go -- I have the Indy tote bag to go with it!

The tote bag also contains an Indy Presenter panel and I am still searching for the cable if anyone has a spare.

Something like one of these cards (from the IP35 aggregator)?



The two meeses is an artifact of my KVM.

Now all I need is to join the 900 club. Or even the 800 club. And a DCD.

You named an Intel Mac octane ? Heresy, sir, heresy!

On a somewhat related point, this is the typical attitude I get from Mozilla on stuff that doesn't benefit Tier-1 or -2 ports:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=881882#c16

Plus, entering "himv" just never works and is so sexist.

Congrats on the successful bootup That's quite a few CPUs you got there.

I got some traction with that bug, finally. Maybe reviving a MIPS JIT might be possible at some point, but I'm doing PowerPC first.

Welcome. Yes, I caught the bug too. I only came here for the Indy lulz, and now I'm busy pimping out a Fuel, and I have this strange urge for a Tezro.

You have not run AIX until you have run it on the original Apple Network Server. -- Gorkon the system adminstrator

4.1.4 added Apple Talk (not "-Share"), more accurately EtherTalk since it did not support LocalTalk. It did not implement AFP, though third party packages like uShare did (a demo version was included). Btw, uShare sucked turgid moose wang. It was horrible.

4.1.5 added AFP as well and this was decent, but by then I was already using Samba, and then Apple discontinued the ANS altogether.

ANS AIX also added some hidden utilities like one that printed characters to the LCD, and another one to do software floppy eject, all of which were specific to the ANS hardware.

It did? I'll have to check that out. I don't remember that.

Also gonna post this to Erik's VCF.

A couple months ago a lady made contact with me over her brother's estate and had two units full of "PDPs" -- she had no further data more than that, and just wanted to make sure that the useful bits went to a good home. I said sure, since it was in Pasadena and reasonably local to me.

Fast forward to today. There were two 9'x16' units stuffed to the gills: untold numbers of RK02s and packs, lots of Professional 380s, some VAXstations, line printers, you name it. Oddly not a lot of terminals, just a VT220 that was in really bad shape, and a VT100 that looked like it was salvageable. Oh, yeah, there were two 11/44s in there also.

We filled our UHaul to the brink and probably saved only about 10% of what was here; I am sorry to say that she needed the units clear, so the recyclers were already pulling up as we left. But this is what we salvaged, in unknown functional status:

- 11/44 with tape, appears to be a TU58. Unknown functional condition, but looks intact, and the cards were clean even though the case was a little grimy. Some of the tapes were on site and appeared intact.
- One RK02 and a crapload of disk packs. Between this and the 11/44, that was about 60% of the UHaul. There was no way we were getting two racks in there, which was sad. There was so much we had to leave behind.
- Three Professional 380s. All physically intact, just hideously dirty. Most have hard disks.
- Three Rainbow 100s (one of them was a plus). Same.
- Three VAXstation 100s. Same. All but one had lots of cable packs, too.
- An insanely heavy Kennedy drive, 71MB. Just for gits and shiggles, since it was huge and had the platters in a clear plexiglas enclosure. Very good shape. Might still work.
- Lots of 8" floppies, a couple LK201 keyboards, a really dirty LA50 printer, a VR260? monitor, the aforementioned possibly salvageable VT100, paper tape, supplies for the RK02.
- Finally, a DECmate II, floppy model only. This one I tested explicitly when I got home, since I love the PDP-8 architecture for sheer freaky insanity. It powers on, but I have no console for it (read on). Outside was grimy, but interior was absolutely immaculate and it looked like it had never been used.

These are now safely in my own, much more organized storage unit. I hope to try to get that 11/44 to power on when I get the power hookups for it in the near future, but the Pro380s and especially the DECmate I really want to get running now. I am told the Rainbows can take a serial terminal, but the DECmate II needs a proper console of a VR201 type or similar. We did not encounter one of these. Anyone got one?

He worked for Caltech and I guess he got most of their surplus. About 75% of the stuff I hauled off has Caltech stamps or asset tags on them.

It's early DECwindows, but more than that I don't know. It connects over Unibus. The VAXstations came with all the needed cabling, and I have some LK201 keyboards, but I don't remember seeing any matching monitors. In retrospect they will not be too useful if I don't wind up with a VAX, so I might jettison some or all of these.

Like I said, he kept lots of computers, but relatively few monitors and terminals. That's why I really want the VR201.

Well, if you want one, I'd be happy to give you one and see what yours does with it. Like I say, looking over what we were able to take, it won't be too handy to me. I do make monthly runs to Sacramento, so maybe we could meet up.

You're killing me, Larry!

That's a nice O2, though.

To upgrade to 6.5.22 from versions prior to 6.5.19 using the overlay, you need to update swmgr. I think patch 5089 will still work on 6.5.9, but I am not sure.

However, the sgi freeware Mozilla should definitely work. Where's your mozilla binary parked? Are the execute bits correct on it?

"recovered"?

IIRC, on my 6.5.30 system, it's still 1.8. I don't think 1.9 was ported to Irix.

Where's the hypercube?

On one of my boxes, if I don't power it up every couple months, stiction sets in on the drive.

Grape goodness!

Lots of resurrected O2s in hinv these days.