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2. If you need a system password, then IBM has to generate it for you, based on a code the machine gives you, to give them. It's not something you keep on hand. On the boxes we only use intermittently, we avoid this (not to mention avoiding having the drives seize on us) by keeping them plugged in, and keeping them on a weekly "exercise" cycle, where they power up, run for about an hour, and power down.
3. If our late lamented D02 is any indication, if the box starts asking for a system password, it's going to give you about a month to come up with it, and apparently that's a month of actual system operating time, not a calendar month whether the system is up or down.
4. Going back to the idea of using it as a development box, remember: it's easy to move software forward from version to version; not so easy moving it backward.
-- JHHL
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