Re: Eight-inch floppy?! Oh NO! (9406-200)

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No V4R5 for that machine... V3R2 is as far you can go...

CISC machine.... Still a nice box for certain things and
a fairly nice learning machine.... 




"Haase, Justin C." wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Got my hands on a 9406-2xx model.  Has a QIC (2 Gb I think, what is says on
> the front anyway), an externally-attached 8-inch floppy drive, 3
> chunks-'o-DASD (don't have model numbers of drives - doesn't pertain here),
> and a nice, OLD, twinax-connect console.
> 
> We have some tapes around here for old releases of the OS conveniently on
> QIC.  However, I want to know if it's possible to bust in to this like I can
> with a manual-mode and DST right now on V4R5 before trying to find OS tapes.
> Oh, here's the kicker - it will IPL to a signon screen in normal mode.  Try
> it in manual, and you get an SRC and a system halt before you get to DST - I
> will get the SRC if anyone needs it.  Let me know if anyone has some ideas
> as to what the best way to go about getting in to this thing would be.
> Standard user/password (QSECOFR/QSECOFR, QPGMR/QPGMR, etc...) do not work.
> Don't know any other usernames which were present on this system.
> 
> Oh!  One more thing - the first time I powered this thing on it went:
> BEEEEEEEP!   BEEEEEEP!  BEEEEEEEP! and I said to the guy I was with, "wow,
> didn't know these old ones had speakers!"  But about two minutes later, got
> an SRC indicating mag media failure.  Remembered back to 1994 when I had a
> Mac Plus with a 20 MEG hard disk which if you ever turned it off, you had to
> beat the crap out of it to get it to spin back up.  So, cracked the case,
> turned on the 400, beat the snot out of the drive, and we were off to the
> races.  Nice chuckle for the morning.  Anyway, time to get to work - ideas
> are appreciated - thanks!
> 
> Justin C. Haase
> Midrange Systems Engineer - Kingland Systems Corporation
> IBM Certified AS/400 Systems Administrator
> IBM Certified AS/400 Professional System Operator
> IBM Certified AS/400 Associate System Operator
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> phone - 641.355.1035
> fax - 641.355.1099
> cellular - 641.430.6381
> pager - 641.422.3023
> e-mail - justin.haase@kingland.com
> alpha page - 5550923.beeper@pager.beeperpeople.com
> 
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