[rescue] IBM PS/2 9595

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 06:29 PM, Steve Sandau wrote:

> I asked earlier if this was worth fiddling with. I decided it was... 
> Forty pounds worth of 486 MCA bus server...

I used to have a number of these in my keep.  Many many moons ago.

> I found the reference and diag diskettes,

Lucky bastard.  You could have been screwed without these.

> Any ideas on what OS I'd be happy with?

OS/2 Warp 3.0 runs spectacularly on this iron.  I think mine came with 
an older rev of OS/2 like 2.0 or more likely 2.1 but 3.0 would run on 
them pretty well.

> I've not had any luck booting NetBSD on it even though it is 
> supposedly supported. Is OS/2 around still in any form?

Yes, IBM still has it hidden away on their web site somewhere that you 
can buy it.  I think all of my OS/2 discs are gone at this point.  It's 
a shame what happened to OS/2.

> Other interesting thing is that I'll either need a MCA ethernet card, 
> or I'll need to set up a token ring network. I have an RS6K 6611 
> router with token ring, so I may be masochistic enough to to the ring 
> thing...

MCA ethernet *might* be hard to find, but I've thrown out bucketloads 
of MCA token ring cards (16/4).  The only reason you would have trouble 
finding one is that most people don't know MCA when they see it, 
realize the card won't plug into anything that they have, so figure it 
is useless and put it in the round file.

All of my archived CD's are still in storage so I can't go digging for 
OS/2 just yet.  When I get unpacked I'll take a look and see what I 
have.

Chris Hedemark
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