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The IBM RS/6000 43P Model 132 (Type 7248) is a PowerPC workstation using the PCI expansion bus. It is capable of running AIX and Windows NT.
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The above machine lived at GNS Science until the 20th of December 2008. It is configured with 192MB of RAM and an additional Symbios Logic SCSI controller and a IBM S15 (Actually a Diamond Viper Pro) graphics card. It runs AIX 4.2.
| Architecture: | PReP |
| CPU: | PowerPC 604 100/120/133 MHz |
| Cache: | 32kB L1 and 512kB asynchronous L2 cache |
| RAM: | 0-192MB RAM, 0-6 FPM SIMMs with parity |
| Video: | Integrated IBM E15 2MB (based on S3 Vision864 with S3 DAC) |
| SCSI: | Integrated NCR 53C810 SCSI-2 |
| IDE: | Integrated National Semiconductor PC87332 SuperIO |
| I/O Controller: | Integrated National Semiconductor PC87332 SuperIO (for IDE, MFM, LPT, COM) |
| Ethernet: | IntegratedAMD 79C970A PCnet32 PCI |
| Audio | Integrated Crystal Audio CS4232 |
You can download an image of the System Management Services disk and use it to create a new SMS disk if you dont already have one. The file format a normal zip file containing a comment and the raw image. This disk is essentially the machines "Firmware" - as far as I can see it doesnt seem to have any real firmware like Sun, SGI and DEC machines do.
To access SMS, insert the SMS disk into the floppy drive and press F4 while the status icons are visible at the bottom of the screen. This should bring up a text-mode SMS interface. On my machine, F1 appears to bring up a graphical SMS interface, F2 brings up a "Network Utility" window (appears to allow configuration of network and boot hardware) and F5 causes "BOOTP Sx R0" (where x counts from 0 to 5) to appear on the screen before starting the graphical SMS utility from the floppy disk. F3, F6 and F7 appear to have no function. I have not tried any others.
A number of high resolution images can be found at the RS/6000 43P-132 Image Gallery.
None available at this time. Have a PDF copy of any documentation? Email me: david at this websites domain (without the www bit).
When I pulled the machine out of storage where it had sat for over a decade, I was greeted with this error:
There is really very little online about it and none of it truly helpful. I initially tried pulling hardware and rearranging memory with no success. I was almost ready to give up ont he machine when I decided to have one last attempted. I removed all the RAM, blew the memory slots clean just in case dust had got in, installed two SIMMs pulled from a DEC Multia, and the machine passed its self-tests! I then put two of the original modules back in and the error came back. Replaced the second module with a different one and it was fine again! Installed the rest of the RAM including the one that had previously failed and it was still fine! So I'm wondering if perhaps one of the SIMM slots was just dirty and/or has a bad connection. Whatever the reason, this non-obvious error appears to have been memory related and its now fixed.