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Date: 2002-11-24 20:37:33
From "Steve Scotten "
Subject: 7011-250 (and other) users, unite!
Since I haven't found any RS/6000 user groups anywhere, I'm starting a mailing list for the Model 250... there seem to be a lot of them out there and more and more are landing in the hands of people without IBM service contracts, since they're selling second and thirdhand for $50. These Model 250s are great machines; lots of history and charm, and I've got 150 days of uptime on mine. But a lot of the documentation available from IBM skips over the 7011-250 and I don't know why. I've put together this mailing list for those of us that have Model 250s to trade tips and support. Personally, I'm slightly obsessive about the Model 250. I learned about the RS/6000 adopting the PowerPC chip from a press release in 1993, and my head started spinning. I was running an IBM PS/Valuepoint at the time; a 486dx2/66 running OS/2. The RS/6000 looked like a dream to me, although I knew nothing about AIX. I was hoping to run the never-released PowerPC version of OS/2 on one. I was 23 years old in 1993 and I wasn't pulling down big bucks, to say the least. So owning my own RS/6000 was just a fantasy, not to be realized. The years went by and I learned about Unix on BSD and Linux. One day in 1999, then employed by a consulting firm and earning a "grown-up" salary, I found a Model 250 on eBay. of course in 1999, the Model 250 was priced at a level I could have afforded in 1993. It was a dream come true. There were several challenges getting it up and running, but it's been satisfying, and the machine has been quite reliable as my mailserver and listserver. Probably there aren't that many people who idolized that particular model when they were a kid and for whom running one is the fulfillment of one of the dreams of youth, but I think this list will be useful to some. I look forward to seeing what happens with this list. With this mail, rs6k-users@p90.net is launched. Welcome! Steve -- Steven M. Scotten <s@p90.net>
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