[1807] in Hotline Meeting
How Bill-the-cat got fixed (and other interesting info).
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Sat Sep 22 00:24:46 1990
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 90 00:24:23 EDT
From: Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis@MIT.EDU>
To: cc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, ops@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I replaced Bill's ST506 disk controller with one from a
non-functional *NON-APC* RT that has been abandoned in the W20 machine
room.
In the process of looking for parts for Bill-The-Cat, I found a
brand new RT/APC (!!) in its box in the W20 machine room (there is also
a VS2000 in its box). Although the VS200 has a property tag, the RT/APC
did not. Its serial number is 26-0012051.
As the "found" RT was a new machine, it has only 4 Meg of memory
and *no* Ethernet board. Therefore I took the Ethernet board from the
abandoned non-APC machine and installed it in this new machine (as well
as a monochrome adapter card that was also languishing in the non-APC
machine). This machine is now sitting in the SIPB office.
Final State:
Bill-the-cat: Fixed.
non-APC RT: Stripped, only useful component left is the power supply.
***Power Supplies can be real useful***
(The mother board is useless, the memory is useless (non-APC),
even the chassis is useless (no external fan)). This machine
is in the W20 machine room. Note: There is also another non-APC
RT there as well, I didn't touch that one, so don't know its
configuration.
RT/APC: Located in SIPB office. 4 Meg of memory (could use another 4)
Keyboard (no mouse nor monitor), Monochrome adapter, APA16 card
("normal" display board), Ethernet board (combined thick/thin).
70 Megabyte disk and EESDI disk controller.
*Never Powered On* Therefore not tested as a system.
Serial Number: 26-0012051
-Jeff
