Booting an IBM 4956
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by Bill Degnan - 05/03/2008 10:04 |
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I have power now, and I have turned on the main CPU and disk drive. Booting an IBM 4956 with 4978 monitor and 4962 drive unit (Series 1 / Series I core unit)
I am starting to imagine ways to use the 4956 as a super expensive weak personal computer. Currently the unit is not cabled up, but I have a pretty good idea of what goes where. But that can be dangerous. Better find out for sure. NEXT: Learn more about the 4962 - is the hard drive parked? how do you cable the drive to the controller card, which is the correct controller card? Does the unit boot without a boot disk in the drive and look to the hard drive (like a PC) for the OS? What are drives called. I may have a BASIC disk somewhere intended for this computer, hmmm.... I do know what this system was used for originally. A medical records database system. The system used a modem to transmit info. It could have run a small computer department, there are a lot of serial cables. It would be fun to turn this into something else, after I have explored and documented how it was originally used. See thread on vintage-computer.com http://www.vintage-compu.../showthread.php?p=62500 Reply |
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