Re: Is acquiring a second-hand Model 170-- is this a good idea?

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:45:20AM -0400, Sean Porterfield wrote:
> I wish I had known that 3 weeks ago!  I got my quote yesterday, more than 30
> days from purchase.  OUCH!

I got lucky: I called on the 30th day, and got the lower price.

> If I put a web server on, I'd want more than the 64MB of RAM.  I'll also
> need more than the 4GB disk very soon.  Bummer that there is no tape
> drive...

I'm using an SLR5 drive I had lying around. It's reported as a type 63A0,
and there's something about the microcode the system doesn't like (I get a
message to call my hardware service provider at every IPL), but it works
fine.

> I was hoping to be able to convert the 6346 from my F10, but that looks like
> a no-go.  (Same on the 6606 drives we pulled from our 720; they just aren't
> the same.)

I converted three 6607s I had in a 9402-400 - a friend had three spare drive
trays. (Otherwise, they'd have cost $300 each! OUCH!)