IBM RS/6000 Workstation

Video Description

Taking a look at an IBM RS/6000 43p Model 140 Unix workstation from 1996. We'll disassemble and clean it, boot into its System Management Services firmware, and fire up some big IBM pSeries Power 5 enterprise servers to setup a RIPL boot server. We'll try to get AIX's Network Installation Management running properly and boot this RS/6000 as a diskless workstation over the network. Check me out on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/clabretro Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio #netro #retrotech #retrocomputer #ibm #unix #networking Serial to USB converter: https://amzn.to/4mAXDlJ Rack stuff StarTech Universal Rack Rails: https://amzn.to/404JV1Q StarTech 42U Rack: https://amzn.to/482c3oh StarTech 25U Rack: https://amzn.to/3mEB7hS Tripp Lite SMART1500LCD UPS: https://amzn.to/3KZW3Jw 1U 24 Port Patch Panel: https://amzn.to/3Nm0bFa 1U Brush Panel: https://amzn.to/3mExAA3 1U Rack Shelf: https://amzn.to/3oaDclT Video gear Camera: https://amzn.to/4al3xjA Main mics: https://amzn.to/4dCUuO2 Desk mic: https://amzn.to/3ye8BsV Note: The above are Amazon affiliate links. It doesn't cost you extra, but I'll receive a commission which will help keep the content coming. I only link to things I've personally ordered. 00:00 Intro 00:41 RS/6000 43p Overview 03:33 Disassembly and Cleaning 14:33 Powering it On 19:29 RIPL Overview 21:24 IBM pSeries Machines 26:59 Powering up the HMC 33:58 Powering up the p5 Servers 37:18 AIX LPARs 44:23 Setting up a NIM Master 48:56 RIPL Boot Attempts 53:37 Next Steps