Re: New Subject: Series/1

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From: Haase, Justin C. <Justin.Haase@Kingland.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:35 AM
Subject: New Subject: Series/1


> For us "New to the AS/400-iSeries world" folks, could someone give some
> background on the Series/1 and perhaps a website or two a person could
> navigate to?  Thanks!
>
http://members.tripod.com/~jrollins/s1.html :
Well, I've got a Series/1 minicomputer. It's huge! The company I got it from
upgraded to the RS/6000 platform, which can run Series/1 software under
emulation. They needed to get it out of the way, so they posted a message in
the pdx.forsale newsgroup, and I have a hard time passing up free computer
equipment. I ended up bringing home over a half ton of computer, which was
three 19" racks, two terminals, a box of 8" floppies, and a huge pile of
repair manuals. There were four 4967 hard drives, weighing over 200lbs each
and with a capacity of 200MB, a 4963 hard drive that weighed about 170lbs and
a capacity of 68MB, a 4956-K00 CPU with 2MB RAM, two 4959 expansion units, an
8" floppy drive, a 4968 autoload tape drive weighing 80lbs and a capacity of
85MB, and a 4969 tape drive weighing about 180lbs. These are not normal tape
drives, these are huge reel-to-reel drives. And the system runs on 220v, so I
had to drag the cord to the next floor up(barely reached) to test it out
after bending the plug to fit the outlet for the dryer.

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