"Michael Kennedy" wrote in message
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I have a IBM RISC 6000 type 7009 server from a grocery store. It doesn't
have a video card but it has an etherenet card a floppy drive, 2 hdd's, it
is full of memory sims, it has what I think is a token ring card with a db9
connector and it has 2 weird serial cards in it which have a block which
splits it into 15 db25 serial ports.

I have all sorts of db25 cables to go with it also, from 5 - 50 ft cables.

- Mike
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The IBM RS6000 (and IBM RT before that) have been around a long time. These
machines usually ran AIX IBM's version of UNIX), but some ran Linux (Red
Hat) more recently.
The RS6000 in a grocery store setting -- serves as the database server (e.g.
UPC bar codes, prices, current inventory, items sold during day) for the
store - communications controller to the store chain's central computers and
checkout lanes (serial cable).
The 2 HDDs may have been in a RAID configuration

Could be useful - for a Linux savvy user - but there are number other
alternatives for Linux servers.

gb