Re: 9406-170 help needed

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well,

You've got a really good user group  there in Louisville...give them a
call or checkout their web page: www.kssa.net

You can find other iSeries centric UG's at www.eserverusergroup.org

Don in DC

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Christopher D Peveler wrote:

> I recently rescued a 9406-170 from the surplus warehouse here at the
> university.  Being a PC tech I really didn't know what I had or needed.
> To be quite honest I still don't.  Here is a list of the cards
> installed.
>
> Tower 1
> 2838
> 2720
> 2740
> 285A
> 2850-011 no ram
> 2839 with 3 pieces of memory
> 4x 27H1710 Hard drives
> 4/8 GB tape drive
> (looks like CD-rom may have been looted/if it ever had one)
>
> Tower 2
> 2729
> 2838
> 2721
> 2809
> 1x 27H1710 hard drive
>
> 1 44H7480 cable
> 1 twinax 4 position tap with 1 20' twinax cable
> 2 power cables
>
> That is all I have.  No console, tapes, manuals, cables for 2850-011 or
> anything else.
>
> Where should I start?  I have gleaned as mush as I can from the
> archives and other websites.
> I'm pretty sure that I need to get some sort of console setup.  I'm
> also pretty sure that the 44H7480 cable that I have is for a modem not a
> console.  Could I use some sort of terminal emulation?  A homemade 9/9
> pin cable?  I need some sort of near $0 solution just to see if the
> thing is functional.  Also is there a way to tell which processor is in
> it without a console?
>
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