RE: System/34

>The System/34 in the US market came available as a208V/3 phase or a
>220V/Single phase.  If you need three phase power to run the unit my
>advise to you is to forget it.  You can buy a single to three phase
>convertor for posibly $1500 used, $3500 new.  Industrial tools typically
>have 3 phase motors and thus to make them work in a residential setting
>a convertor is required.  If you need 220V/Single Phase a local
>electrician can get this for you as your residence should already have
>220 service.
At www.ibmlink.ibm.com, the S/34(5340) uses single phase 60Hz at 208V or
230V. None of that annoying 3 phase power. How do you tell the difference
between 208v and 230v plugs?

>If you really need an antique machine my advice to you would to buy an
>old a 5362 that runs on 110 volts.  THis is a smaller machine that you
>should be able to move more readily.
Or the 5364, which is about the size of a large PC(I think it's inside an
AT case), which is a lot easier to find room to setup. Or for newer stuff,
older AS/400's are getting cheap. Of course nothing can beat a free S/34 or
S/36... As long as you have enough room for it.
Meanwhile, I'm stuck with my Series/1. But I hope to be getting an AS/400
and S/36 5364 eventually...


-JR  http://members.tripod.com/~jrollins/index.html - Computers
     http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/1681/ - Star Trek


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