IBM RS6000
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  • How old are you? I'm 13 and have the same interests as you but my voice is lower xD

  • I wanted to see the damned  boot process!

  • try to use mkuser, chuser, rmuser, lsuser instead of adduser or useradd; start with smitty; oh, and by the way - you have no idea about AIX :))

  • nice computer.

  • missing old days 

  • any chance of making more videos of this machine? it would be awesome..

  • You got a beautiful machine that's still to do some things. The company where I work, has worked on various versions. We used to work with Catia V4

  • Somehow I feel that this kids has a higher iq than mine. : > (

  • the i was 10 age now am 14 and am better whit dos 6.22

    o shit norton deskop says bad sector on hard drive nooo

  • more pleas i have a t4600c laptop 4 mb ram + 4 mb ram card (= 8 ram) 377 mb hard drive (163 mb in use) ms dos 6.22 NL windows 3.11 wfw NL i have the orginil setup diskette of ms dos 6.22 NL and windows 3.11 wfw NL cool programs nortondesktop 3.0 doom ultimat and doom 2 (i run doom ultimet and doom 2 on dos windows take more memory and it run sloo 16 color pc spaker biep boep 3?? mgh my dad have re format the hard drive 4 times bekos i rune al the programs and dos wont work (good work ded !)
  • @spiderwick1989: AIX does not run on intelbased machines, you may try it on an older macbook with a powerpc processor. But there is no guarantee that you get it installed.

  • can you send me the ISO of aix? i would like to try it on my laptop!!!

  • What I love is when he says "This is a really big machine" Heh heh... guess he never saw a PDP11

  • One more thing, you said we [the viewers of this video] could send you a message, if they wanted to know more or see things run (in the CLI). Is it perhaps possible if you set it up as a public access shell host? I'm sure there's a F/OSS SSH server (i.e. OpenSSH) out there. Would be fun, right?

  • @eMGeeGFX hmm that would be cool until someone figured out an exploit with the primitive software of the OS and got to the other machines under my firewall. That would be nice I suppose, but it would take a long while getting it setup in an even relatively secure manner.

  • @macheads101, why not set it up outside of the firewall then? You could also put it into a seperate subnet, with the rest of the machines in the network having that one in the hosts.deny list. I don't see the problem.

  • I forgot ti ask, how the hell did this end up in your basement? Because if it had been there for a while (when it was still worth a lot more), then it's a bit of a strange story.

  • this systems need go into open word in order to get a life... but wherever Im really happy with my nice Openbsd 4.7 Os

  • please make more videos of this machine.

  • Better known as... desktop. Built like a tank, yes, probably not in China either. By the way, localhost means there's no hostname configured. Also, the root directory being at ... the root is how UNIX originally was structured, it's since Linux (and some *BSD) that they had to differ from the POSIX and other set UNIX standards.

    Likening AIX to Ubuntu is well... let' say, just wrong. LOL.

  • i have a IBM POWER IntelliStation 285... Power5+ 1.9GHz dualcore 36MB cache, 12GB of RAM and 4x73GB SCSI... and it runs AIX 6.1... and its pretty FAST :) gotta love AIX.. i have Gnome 2.14 installed from bullware.

  • @ilukeberry nice system! I have a POWER4 system (IBM 9114-275), but it's dead at the moment (due to some internal media bay problems; IBM had to use a retarded custom power cable).

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  • I remember that GUI from Solaris 8. What do you know IBM uses it too. Sad that Sun Microsystems was bought out though but at least IBM continues.

  • Thanks for video review. Motif (the window toolkit used by CDE) isn't that unusual.. there's an open source clone of it called lesstif, used by window managers like MWM and FVWM. Of course, Motif used to be the standard X GUI toolkit. CDE is still the default GUI on AIX and HPUX, but their phasing it out of Solaris :P

  • @mekanopsis1 don't forget about [Open]VMS, it uses CDE too (although called DECwindows). I'm very much in favour of CDE, as it's damn fast and the binaries tend to usually be nice and small!

  • Nice! I too use an IBM Model M keyboard. They rock!

    I still want an RS6000 (or even an AS400). We used to use the RS6000's at CompUSA to serve our terminals & registers: no one even knew they were there as they kept running & running for years.

    The numbers are probably (like on most IBMs) the number referencing the POST code it is in the process of testing.

    A friend of mine just installed a browser (Firefox I think) on his RS6000.

    Sweet machines! Lemme know if you ever wanna get rid of it!

  • What does Xcode do?

  • Xcode is the application that developers use to make mac apps as well as iPhone apps.

  • @gammaray850 Actually Xcode is a native RuneScape client for Lawn Gnome and JDE (basically any Windows computer), that supports OpenLOL, and 4D timestamping via NSAPI version 2.0 as of I quadruple E spec (IEEEE 801.337a) You can read more about it at your local acme in the tech support section.

  • @Regunirun trolz

  • omg

  • lol then video is late by half a second

  • only in the beginning video.

  • Very good review.

  • LOL thanks...

  • These days I use the Apple platform for all my development needs, however, I was introduced to the UNIX operating system on an AT&T 3b1. Check it out...

    /watch?v=Aj1n2_qEq5k

  • You could probably get a CD-ROM or tape with AIX on it, and get the rest of the applications to run off the hard drive.

    Being AIX, it can run applications remotely via X.

    Yeah, anything is better than MS Vista.

  • Yeah It was configured to run all the apps on X. Luckily they were also on the local machine. I just edited the config file so that the X server is localhost, now everything works fine. And I am not sure that IBM still sells AIX tapes but they must still sell CD-ROMS, but I already have a CD-ROM that came with it.

  • You can add users thru 'smitty' Type 'smitty' from the root command line

  • It's smit not smitty. And I just used etc/passwd before I knew about that.

  • It's and old IBM RS/6000.

  • The key part is nothing new, there's a few servers that require you to turn a key to start them up. That particular login screen is the same on all UNIX flavours of the era - it's called the CDE login, kinda like gdm to GNOME, or kdm to KDE.

  • Cool thanks for the info!

  • I think that computer is better than Vista =D

  • Lol me too!

  • My dad still has his commodore 64, maybe I'll make a video on that next.

  • nice trip down memory lane...

  • Thanks!

  • Pretty cool not going to lie

  • Yeah that's what I thought too.

  • I wanna see more on it! Looks cool, and the case designs haven't changes much now. My windows PC looks similar to that, just black.

  • Haha cool!

  • Thats pretty cool, it's weird seeing old computers, thanks for sharing.

    Side note, would it be possilbe for you guys to do a video on overclocking a PC?

  • Ok, I PMd you a link to a good site on overclocking a pc.

  • upgrade it and put snow leopard on it LoL ile send you some parts jk

  • Haha funny, and I know that you realized that it's processor doesn't really allow me to install much on it LOL :D

  • The old Mac OSes would run fine on an 80 Mhz PPC... too bad it wouldn't work on this machine :P

  • Damn that would be cool!

  • Yep :P

  • This FTW!

    I have an old IBM built like this, but it runs... Wow, it's been so long I forget! I think Xubuntu or XP pro.

  • haha cool

  • please show app buider

  • First I have to figure out how to use it first :D

  • cool...can u post some specs on it?

  • 128 MB of ram

    80 Mhz PPC Processor

    4GB Storage

  • i want to see google on it and more fun stuff on the internet about it

  • you need to get on AIM more often :p

    MertenNor

  • cool video :D

    I love old computers ^^

    MertenNor

  • Yeah same, thanks.

  • i love the macintosh 128k (stands for 128 kb of ram, and think i now have 2gb on mine!)

  • Yep, i know... IN my old gerneration (where we say things like we were young once too you know) we worry about you young people not knowing about Vinyl, or having experience an E-Ticket... (My Generation coming to grips that we have passed our youth to our middle age)

  • Haha.

  • CD drive... It's not that old... Talk to me when we look at 5 1/4 floppies with the OS on them... (I started even before that, but on those computers you probably wouldn't find in a basement, and of course Apple only started with a 5 1/4)

  • CD have been available since October 1982.

  • I was born after CD's were invented.

  • what os is it?

  • its IBM's AIX operating system.

  • yay first comment lol thanks for the video alex

  • You're welcome.

  • what is root's password?

  • It's not the default. My dad set it a while ago. And it is confidential information.

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