{"id":75,"date":"2007-04-27T04:20:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T07:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=75"},"modified":"2018-10-01T06:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T13:30:25","slug":"holding-the-floor-down-ibm-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Holding the floor down, IBM style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally received my newest e-bay purchase, an RS\/6000 server to hone my AIX kung-foo with. IBM doesn&#8217;t mess around when they build a box, this RS\/6000 server has to weigh at least 75 lbs. It&#8217;s the heaviest box I own and prob one of the slowest since it only has a 603e (think 90&#8217;s power mac) processor at 200Mhz. I think I paid $65 for it plus shipping. Not bad at all, cheaper than a decent AIX book.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s surprisingly quiet&#8230; until the SCSI disks spin up, they sound like 25 year old MFM drives. They are plain old 80 pin SCA disks so I will have to replace them with some quiet ones I have here. Should make for a fun project over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally received my newest e-bay purchase, an RS\/6000 server to hone my AIX kung-foo with. IBM doesn&#8217;t mess around when they build a box, this RS\/6000 server has to weigh at least 75 lbs. It&#8217;s the heaviest box I own and prob one of the slowest since it only has a 603e (think 90&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=75\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holding the floor down, IBM style&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}