I obtained the machine as a gift when another collector,
Sven Paulus, cleared his garage collection.
On boot it powered up only shortly, it died after a few seconds.
At first I thought the box was fatally ill, but when I looked at it more
closely a few weeks later, I discovered that one of the control wires between
power switch and mobo has been cut, probably when the boxes cover
was removed/reseated. After temporarily fixing the connection,
the machine worked again just fine.
It still had an OS (AIX 4.1.5) on it, but took extremely
long (several minutes) to boot, maybe because I did not
connect it to a network, and thus time-outs occured.
In order to fix some of these,
I hooked up a Toshiba XM-5301B CD-ROM drive with an AIX 4.1.5 CD
and
booted the box with F1 pressed.
It requested an SMS diskette, but eventually booted off the CD,
so I could apply the
usual magic.
Front views.
Rear view.
View inside, PCI side of the riser card.
In the lower left corner the endangered wire connections can be seen.
View inside, ISA side of the riser card, with the ISA ethernet adapter removed.
A RAM module, 168-pin, 1Mx72P (8MB), P/N 8186777.
People say either 8 or 32MB will fit, but are hard to find.