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Wrote on the subject of What IBM hardware do we have..? at May 26, 2010, 2:01 a.m...
i have:

POWER IntelliStation 9111-285

specs:
2-way POWER5+ 1.9Ghz L3 36MB cache,
12GB of DDR2,
4 x 73GB SCSI 10.000rpm,
GXT6500p

here is the video of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9K6CviWnGA
its powered on and it's quite quiet workstation...

running AIX 6.1 on it :)

HP Visualize C3600 - PA-8600 552Mhz, 2.5 GB SDRAM, HP FireGL-UX, 74GB SCSI, HP-UX 11i v1
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Wrote on the subject of ONScripter-EN 20080823 ported to AIX 6.1 at June 29, 2010, 2:33 p.m...
bullware gnome 2.14 + Seamonkey on AIX 6.1

http://www.gaming-shop.si/~luka/gnome_aix.png

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HP Visualize C3600 - PA-8600 552Mhz, 2.5 GB SDRAM, HP FireGL-UX, 74GB SCSI, HP-UX 11i v1
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Wrote on the subject of [9114-275] Seagate Cheetah DISK_ERR4 at June 29, 2010, 2:37 p.m...
paulfred wrote:
No---it was Pick up only on eBay and in Austria. I don't think there's much interest in used hardware here.
Companies usually can afford to buy a new system and the p285 is already outdated (POWER 6 is already on the market)

The broad public here isn't exactly aware of POWER boxes (in the eBay description stood: does not run with Windows :D ) and they aren't the first choice of hobbyists either.

Also there was no AIX preinstalled, I wouldn't have bought it if I hadn't already acquired a set of 5.3 disks for my p275

Maybe I also was just lucky ^^

The machine isn't here yet, so I can't say anything about the boot procedure but I've got the Specs:

1,9 Ghz POWER 5+
GXT6500 graphics
4GB RAM
1 73 GB HD

Quite the impressive setup, isn't it? :D (But then again, this thing can hold up to 32 Gb of mem, so maybe I'll upgrade it any time soon)

The startup time's really long on my 275, wouldn't wonder if it's the same way on the 285
The official IBM description states that the 285 should be much less noisy than the 275, that's a big plus, though I like the loud humming of my machines and the drill-like screech of the Cheetah in my Fuel :D

@ritchan: Is your name a reference to Ritsu/Ricchan from K-ON? :)


I also have 9111-285 but with

dual core 1,9 Ghz POWER 5+
GXT6500 graphics
12GB RAM
4x 73 GB HD

:)

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IBM IntelliStation 9111-285 - 2-way POWER5+ 1.9Ghz, 12GB DDR2, GXT6500p, 4x74GB SCSI, AIX 6.1
HP Visualize C3600 - PA-8600 552Mhz, 2.5 GB SDRAM, HP FireGL-UX, 74GB SCSI, HP-UX 11i v1
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Wrote on the subject of ONScripter-EN 20080823 ported to AIX 6.1 at July 3, 2010, 10:37 a.m...
where did you get KDE 3.4 packages? :)

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HP Visualize C3600 - PA-8600 552Mhz, 2.5 GB SDRAM, HP FireGL-UX, 74GB SCSI, HP-UX 11i v1
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Wrote on the subject of ONScripter-EN 20080823 ported to AIX 6.1 at July 3, 2010, 6:14 p.m...
yeah i need to buy that sound card for my 9111-285... currently it doesn't have one inside. btw it would be nice to see more software ported to AIX.

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IBM IntelliStation 9111-285 - 2-way POWER5+ 1.9Ghz, 12GB DDR2, GXT6500p, 4x74GB SCSI, AIX 6.1
HP Visualize C3600 - PA-8600 552Mhz, 2.5 GB SDRAM, HP FireGL-UX, 74GB SCSI, HP-UX 11i v1
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Wrote on the subject of ONScripter-EN 20080823 ported to AIX 6.1 at July 4, 2010, 4:42 a.m...
AIX was designed to do all administration via smit also if you want to change someones user home dir there are special commands like chuser home=/root root

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IBM IntelliStation 9111-285 - 2-way POWER5+ 1.9Ghz, 12GB DDR2, GXT6500p, 4x74GB SCSI, AIX 6.1
HP Visualize C3600 - PA-8600 552Mhz, 2.5 GB SDRAM, HP FireGL-UX, 74GB SCSI, HP-UX 11i v1
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Wrote on the subject of What IBM hardware do we have..? at Dec. 4, 2010, 4:56 p.m...
eMGee wrote: As I may've posted already, I used to own a POWER4 system. Well, I hated it ( or , ended up hating it) and got rid of it! I'd say the qualitative spirit of IBM died somewhere in the 1970s, since then they've been not much worse or better than M$ in my book. The only IBM system I still own is a boring xSeries 346 (that I use for network-distributed render jobs). I used to have a quad-processor xSeries 365, but I got rid of it because it (as a mere 4U system) produced almost as much sound as a fully-populated Origin3200 system and it didn't have EMT64 Xeons.

I only have this system because I found it real cheap. It makes terrible noise. HP and others makes far superior 2U RM systems, in my humble opinion of course.


SAQ wrote: IBM POWER kit holds its value entirely too well.

What do you mean? I often see n-way POWER4, and increasingly POWER5, stuff thrown on eBay for under $ ~150. I can certainly understand why (I got rid of my 9114-275 real fast), it's such low quality trash and IBM is just the worst company second after M$ in my opinion. Many people (read: private individuals, i.e. enthusiasts), clearly, don't care for AIX. There's absolutely no community and extremely little F/OSS porting work in progress. I guess IBM doesn't care much (read: at all), which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone either. IBM only got into the UNIX business because DEC, HP, Sun, SGI and such were involved and were possibly endangering IBM and its aging mainframe racket. (A book I recently read nicely outlined this.)

Why can't it be M$ and IBM to die, instead of DEC and SGI? There's clearly no justice, LOL.



I have to disagree with you... There is a lot of opensource software being compiled and packaged in .rpms for AIX.. and it's fairly up2date http://www.perzl.org/aix/
Also my 9111-285 is build like a tank and it works very well.. currently the fastest RISC box i own.

HP Visualize C3600 - PA-8600 552Mhz, 2.5 GB SDRAM, HP FireGL-UX, 74GB SCSI, HP-UX 11i v1
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Wrote on the subject of Downloading IBM fixes will require a support contract! at Nov. 11, 2011, 5:22 a.m...
"Starting on November 13, 2011, Fix Central downloads are available only for to IBM clients or relations with hardware or software under warranty, maintenance contracts, or subscription and support." :?

IBM was the last commercial Unix vendor to introduce this restriction.

Download AIX patches while you can.

"There is a planned server outage on Sat, 12 Nov 2011 from 6:00 p.m. to Sun, 13 Nov 2:45 a.m. Central Standard Time (CST). Fix Central may be unavailable during this time."

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Wrote on the subject of HP-UX on x86 soon? at June 14, 2012, 12:17 a.m...
Interview with HP CEO Meg Whitman.

http://allthingsd.com/20120605/hewlett- ... ot-to-say/

Quote:
The reason we went to the mat with Oracle on this was because we have a lot of customers on Oracle Itanium who do not want to switch, do not want to get off of HP Unix and on to something else. And they kinda like what they have and they'd like to stick with it. I think either way, Dave's got in the works the next generation of Business Critical Servers on a more open platform. It's called Odyssey, which is pretty cool. Ultimately we’ve got to build Unix on a Xeon chip, and so we will do that.


http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/feat ... 623014.pdf <-- also interesting...

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