IBM 5362 Server

[TheChromebuster]

wow! That is cool! What did those once serve?

[Maxxarcade]

@TheChromebuster From what I was told, it was a database/word processor type program used for store inventory.

[MrKillswitch88]

I think that I have or had an old book with that system featured in it from 1982 :o

[BilisNegra]

(At least, it's damn heavy for sure, which prevents it from taking off and crack the room ceiling)

[BilisNegra]

Are those the insides of a washing machine??? Well, not actually. That's just the floppy drive motor... Now take a look at the hard drive!

[MixerVM]

1:05 rrrrrr rrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrooo beep beep screech bleep!

[MixerVM]

1:05 I wish I had a hard drive sounding like that!

[cjp240573]

Used to use these at Tescos in stock control.

[Gotskillz88]

I love retro computers...

[youtubasoarus]

Amazing. Listen to that thing wind down... holy moly!

[corruptingyouth]

Hey did you happen to sell this on eBay?  I would be curious to know for how much. I work for an eScrap recycling place that puts stuff on eBay, and one of these was put with my stuff. Much thanks, and great vid!

[Dms12444]

Its still for sale, probably re-listed.

[BrianBalding]

I think If my memory Serves me correctly That is a Mfm Hard disk drive

[thevideoguy666]

Now THAT is a server.

[pocketbikefreak666]

WTF a monster HDD!!

[hddr3]

it weighs 150 pounds and cost 20,000 us dollars when they still made these

the terminal is monochrome!

[6364gg2]

Does she still have her case?

[Maxxarcade]

Yep. Not sure how it could be shipped though. Freight cost would be really high.

[SampleAndy]

Well? The auction closed on August 4th. Was that you that bought the termial? I'm pretty curious about it. I have a 5362, but no processor and no hard drive. You wanna talk about useless? But it IS neat to turn it on and watch the lights go dim. :-D

[Maxxarcade]

It wasn't me,  I'm actually getting rid of my 5362.

[6364gg2]

Boy she's a beute! I'd love to have her if u agree to my idea

[6364gg2]

Are you lookin in mto gettin rid of it?

[jolesco]

Looks like that harddrive is model 21ED. It has 30MB capacity.

Model 10SR holds 200MB

You can have two drives mounted in this box, giving a whooping 400MB

[K1ll3rM4st3r]

Holy Jesus thats old!!! ive never seen such a thing.

[bluebutdude1]

Whats the terminal?

[TheGeek1028]

Is that an 8" HDD? I haven't seen one of those in 2 years when I almost killed a generic PSU using it

[Maxxarcade]

Actually I think it's a 10 or 12 inch. It's a monster!

[TheGeek1028]

Well, 10 or 12 inch would be an absolute extreme, cause 8" is the largest, besides some "very high capacity" drives from the late 70's and early 80's. The only exception to that is the first 1 GB drive which was about 550 pounds and the size of a full size kitchen fridge.

[MixerVM]

@Maxxarcade You shouldn't have moved the HDD if you did (I couldn't see)

[MixerVM]

@Maxxarcade The HDD doesn't look like 120MB in capacity

I think it would be smaller

[Maxxarcade]

@MixerVM I think it was the 30MB version. The system had drives up to 200MB x2 available as an option from what I hear.

The system has since been scrapped, I've thought about removing the video from Youtube, but I haven't made a decision yet.

[jshelby861]

Yes it is and 8" floppy drive that used ds/dd 8" diskettes I have one of these at my house I still play on! any ibm twinax terminal will work with it, and if the key switch is in the service position you can shut it down by hitting select and going to function 6 then hit select and the unit will shut down like it should, also if it will not boot normal with a terminal, turn the unit on and hit function1 and quickly enter in ff00 and hit select function and it should ipl

[teatini22]

OLD PC !! ME USING IN MY OFFICE

[TheGeek1028]

Cool!

[twocvbloke]

Beats the pants off my IBM Netfinity 3500 server (PentiumII based), that is one cool piece of retro computing, I'd love to see it up and running with a terminal... :D

[Maxxarcade]

If I don't find a terminal fairly soon, I'll probably put it on Ebay starting at 99 cents. I'd like it to find a good home instead of parting it out.

[twocvbloke]

Would this terminal work:

ebay ID: 170363499038

[Maxxarcade]

I don't think the AS/400 ones are compatible. I'll have to read up on that more.

I've seen those terminals at my high school back in the day. Now I know what they were!

[twocvbloke]

Ah, I don't really know what I'm looking for, I just searched on ebay for "IBM Twinax" thinking they'd be compatible with each other... :)

But then, computers of old were all pretty much proprietary affairs, so one system wouldn't work with another, very confusing... :S

[twocvbloke]

How about this terminal, an IBM 3486 "Dumb terminal", charming name eh?:

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:)

[Maxxarcade]

Looks like that's the one! I'll keep an eye on it.

[twocvbloke]

Hope it is, I'd love to see what the server can do (well, apart from suck up electricity for that hard drive!!!)... :D

[Maxxarcade]

It' s essentially a word processor and early spreadsheet, from what the previous owner told me.

[twocvbloke]

You mean those 80's films with fancy graphics and stuff (for the time) coming from such a beast were all made up? :P

Still, as long as you keep it working, it could be worth something some day, could even be put in a computing museum... :)

[3ytc]

@Maxxarcade

"It's essentially a word processor and early spreadsheet, from what the previous owner told me."

Then the previous owner didn't know what he was talking about...sigh We ran our whole business (about 150 employees at that time) on this machine, we (I was one of them) programmed all our own applications in IBM's own application programming language RPGII for all our departments; purchase/sales department, factory, expedition, lab, finance, you name it, it all ran on this machine.

[turboneticss]

That's an amasing machine. Why don't you keep it. And give it to museum or something... within few years.

[jefferyb304]

awesome !!!

[weasel2htm]

That thing is built like a tank!

[mikelboi87]

haha thats awesome! thanks for sharing. i would love to see it in action.

[darky10121987]

garbage compared to today

[Maxxarcade]

Ya, but it's cool garbage. One man's trash is another man's treasure.

[darky10121987]

true i still got a 5 1/2 floppy dos some wherer around here and games

[sickwititty]

Whats the advantage of repairing something like this? besides self gratification?

[Maxxarcade]

Because it's fun and educational to see how computing was done back then. You had to actually know what you were doing to get any work done, because you had to program everything yourself.

And there's nothing to repair in this case... Just have to find the terminal and hook it up.

Though after I'm done playing with it, I might part it out to fix other equipment.

[sickwititty]

makes some sence... but the actual use of this peice of hardware is non-existant right?

i love fixing computers too, but ive never bothered with anything near my own age

[Maxxarcade]

It's not much use except to learn some programming. It's basically a huge word processor/spreadsheet.

[retrochad]

Awesome, I really like stuff like this! I have a Microvax system which is about the same size and does have VMS on it but I haven't done too much with it. My dad has been a computer systems analyst for more than 30 years and I remember him using IBM EBCDIC terminals at work in the mid 80's which used the twinax connectors. He had some kind of a card in a Compaq portable to be able to interface with the IBM mainframe.

[vwestlife]

That looks like an 8-inch hard drive -- that thing must suck up quite a few amps when spinning up!

[67tr876]

it looks like an engine LOL

[numitron]

Arron,

I work for IBM and installed 100's and repaired from the time they were produced until the last one dropped off the IBM service agreement. They were all over the place serving small to medium businesses. They use a proprietary operating system from IBM, it is not windows based at all.

Truthfully you probably can't do anything with it. If you do find a twinax terminal connect it to port 0 and set the terminal to address 0 for the primary console.

[numitron]

You can daisy chain 7 terminals/printers per twinax connector each addressed from 0-6.

You have one dive but you can have up to 2 drives installed inside. I did many upgrades years back.

[MN12BIRD]

What a freggin beast! Someone used that until just a few years ago?? Pretty cool though I need to get my old IBM up and running.

[Vinylrecordsneverdie]

OMG, that thing is a "MONSTER" compared to today's standards! It even has a powerful fan too!