Re: Cume PTFs

Joe,

The motherboard is that big one in the back. It's quite difficult to lose it because nearly every freekin part in the entire machine needs to come out in order to get it out and it's connected with enough cables to secure a battleship to a pier. Are you sure it's not still in there? That would be one SERIOUS blast of air to just blow it plumb out of there! :-)

Honestly though if they've never heard of anyone blowing out the dust they must be 'rookies'. IBM Used to come over and do that for you periodically. They called it 'Preventative Maintenance' back then. Me, I just set 'em on the workbench and crank up the air compressor (which is bolted inside my old S/34) and let the dust fly. But for a somewhat higher volume but 'gentler' blast of air I have also used my shop-vac in reverse mode. Less likely to splatter water onto things or blow heat sinks clean off the components. Oh, you do want to put your wife's car outside, far outside, before you cut loose with the dust cloud. ;-)

- Larry

Joe Pluta wrote:

From: Joe Pluta

From: Paul Nelson

There is a PTF that enables image catalog support on a 5.1 machine.

Yeah, but I'm not worried about upgrading that box.

That is, I'm not going to upgrade the OS. I'm going to do a scratch
install, because there is no way to upgrade directly from V5R1 to V5R4. It
will be much easier to just install V5R4 from scratch.

Now I have to upgrade, and unfortunately that's not going so well.

This is the hardware upgrade. In order to go to V5R4, I have to replace all
the disk drives. However, I seem to have lost my motherboard. This is not
a good thing.

Joe