IBM RT 6150?

[Jeff Brendle]

Good point about the keyboard and mouse connector ends, I forgot about  
that. I recall someone saying that specific very old Adaptec SCSI  
cards were possibilities too but I no longer remember the details. I'm  
going to guess that driver support for AIX would be more difficult  
than AOS.

On Jan 20, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Doc Shipley wrote:

> Jason T wrote:
>> Hi all - I've got a line on this old AIX box, with the monitor,  
>> books,
>> etc (not sure about O/S media but I think that can be "found.")  Any
>> opinions on it?  Any historical significance ("first machine run
>> ____," etc?)
>> It's cheap, but it will have to be shipped, which may not be cheap.
>
>  Cheap will not be the word.  My RT weighs nearly 75 pounds, and  
> that's *without* the full-height ESDI drives.
>
>  If you can find an ISA IDE/FDC card without serial and parallel and  
> without PC "BIOS entensions", a Seagate IDE Medalist under 2GB will  
> work fine.  I've got one running in mine.
>
>  My RT has got the advanced processor board, and it's about as fast  
> as you'd expect from a 16MHz/16MB computer running a fairly  
> heavyweight OS, AIX v2.2.1.
>
>  Make sure you get the keyboard, at least.  It's a proprietary  
> interface, and I've never heard of anyone adapting a different  
> keyboard for it.  Same for the mouse, and if you happen to get 2, I  
> get dibs on the spare!  :)
>
>  The story I got from an IBM developer is that the PC/RT was ready  
> for market in 1981, but for some reason IBM did not release it till  
> '86.  By then it was mostly outclassed by the competition and its  
> own price, so IBM didn't sell many of them.
>


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