ButINeededThatName
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THEY LIVE!!!
Well, three of the six do anyways. Two are still waiting for parts and the third shudders well, the third had "tenants" at one point as someone left a filler plate out of the machine while it set and apparently a family of nice decided to call it home. More on that later though.
First up we have the 8595. This system originally would throw out errors 161 and 163 (Date and Time) and wouldn't save whatever you entered in. Obviously a bad battery. Well, while attempting to replace it the metal retainer that held the battery in place and contacted the positive side snapped off when I tried to remove the old one. After buying a replacement battery holder, desoldering the old one and soldering in the new one the date and time issues were easily resolved and this system was working, though I wasn't done with it yet. I ordered a bunch of parts off of FeeBay in order to start "standardizing" my systems, which will become apparent below when I list system specs, which for this system are:
A 50MHz Type M Complex
64Mb (8x8Mb Parity) of Memory
A 400Mb IBM Hard Disk
Latest Revision Cached SCSI Adapter
An XGA-2 Card
A Madge MC32 Smart RingNode (Apparently this is capable of 40MB/s streaming! Oh, and it has attractive red plastic instead of the typical IBM blue.)
This is the first of the two 9595 systems I have. I received this one in a different lot of PS/2 gear I picked up a few months after I bought the lot of four 95s/85s. Aside from being dirty this one fired right up and was the easiest to restore. It's configured with the following:
A 60MHz Type 4 Complex
64Mb (8x8Mb ECC) of Memory
A 1Gb IBM Hard Disk
Latest Revision Cached SCSI Adapter
An XGA-2 Card
A Madge MC32 Smart RingNode
Do you see the theme yet?
The second of the two 9595s I have. This was my first Model 95 that I made a nine hour round trip for. It's also the most cosmeticaly pristine system I have as it was used in a bank and well cared for. At one point I swapped the hard disks around and after which was unable to run the refdisk as the floppy drive had seemingly failed. After some cleaning of the drive though everything was fine and it was back to normal. Hardware wise it has the following:
A 90MHz Type 4 Complex
64Mb (8x8Mb ECC) of Memory
A 1Gb IBM Hard Disk
Latest Revision Cached SCSI Adapter
An XGA-2 Card
A Madge MC32 Smart RingNode
And now onto the three that are left...
On the left you have one of two 9585s and on the right my 9595A.
Starting with the latter, this system was throwing out all sorts of CP codes and then one day, stopped POSTing all together. After much troubleshooting I found that the planar had failed, likely bad capacitors, and nabbed a NIB replacement planar off of FleeBay for $70. Not too bad I'd say. After replacing the planar the system POSTed normally and asked for a refdisk, however I currently can't give it one as I'm out of 2.88Mb drives and need a couple more. This system also had it's RAID cages, hot-swap drive trays and RAID controller stripped from it which borderline infuriated me, as I've been wanting a set to use ever since I brought home my first 95. Obviously, I can't consider this system truly restored until I track down the cages, trays and four-drop SCSI cable that it originally had (I have a couple of cached SCSI controllers around so at least I'm good on that front). Hardware wise, I hope to have it configured with the following at some point:
A 90MHz Type 4 Complex (Have)
256Mb (8x32Mb ECC) of Memory (Halfway there)
6x 1Gb Quantum Drives in RAID 0 (Need the drives, cages, trays and SCSI cable)
Cached SCSI Controller upgraded to 64Mb of Cache (Have)
An XGA-2 Card (Have)
A Madge MC32 Smart RingNode (Need)
Now onto the first of my two 9585s. This system has acted very strangely since I've had it. It powers on the moment you insert a power cable and will not power back off until unplugged. It also does not POST whatsoever. I suspect it has multiple issues, though the power supply or switch is probably one of them. Aside from missing a floppy drive, this system is pretty much configured how I want it with the following:
A 66MHz Cyrix DX2
32Mb (4x8Mb Parity) of Memory
A 1Gb Quantum Lightning Hard Disk
An XGA-2 Card
A Madge MC32 Smart RingNode (Need)
Finally, the second 9585. As mentioned, this system was home to some mice at one point and as such, pretty much everything aside from the case is ruined and even then that's fairly corroded inside. If I can save the case, I'll probably just recap my bad 9595A planar, track down the miscellaneous parts (side panel fan, op. panel with display, etc.) and convert this over to a 9595 with the following:
A 66MHz Type 4 Complex
64Mb (8x8Mb ECC) of Memory
A 1Gb IBM Hard Disk
Latest Revision Cached SCSI Adapter
An XGA-2 Card
A Madge MC32 Smart RingNode
Anyways, that's it for this update and sorry for the inconsistency of them, I'm typically juggling ten different projects at once so it can be hard to find time for everything. Have some extra pictures of the 8595 which actually had a bootable install of Win-95 (and some strange backup utility I've never heard of) on it!
Well, three of the six do anyways. Two are still waiting for parts and the third shudders well, the third had "tenants" at one point as someone left a filler plate out of the machine while it set and apparently a family of nice decided to call it home. More on that later though.
First up we have the 8595. This system originally would throw out errors 161 and 163 (Date and Time) and wouldn't save whatever you entered in. Obviously a bad battery. Well, while attempting to replace it the metal retainer that held the battery in place and contacted the positive side snapped off when I tried to remove the old one. After buying a replacement battery holder, desoldering the old one and soldering in the new one the date and time issues were easily resolved and this system was working, though I wasn't done with it yet. I ordered a bunch of parts off of FeeBay in order to start "standardizing" my systems, which will become apparent below when I list system specs, which for this system are:
A 50MHz Type M Complex
64Mb (8x8Mb Parity) of Memory
A 400Mb IBM Hard Disk
Latest Revision Cached SCSI Adapter
An XGA-2 Card
A Madge MC32 Smart RingNode (Apparently this is capable of 40MB/s streaming! Oh, and it has attractive red plastic instead of the typical IBM blue.)
This is the first of the two 9595 systems I have. I received this one in a different lot of PS/2 gear I picked up a few months after I bought the lot of four 95s/85s. Aside from being dirty this one fired right up and was the easiest to restore. It's configured with the following:
A 60MHz Type 4 Complex
64Mb (8x8Mb ECC) of Memory
A 1Gb IBM Hard Disk
Latest Revision Cached SCSI Adapter
An XGA-2 Card
A Madge MC32 Smart RingNode
Do you see the theme yet?
The second of the two 9595s I have. This was my first Model 95 that I made a nine hour round trip for. It's also the most cosmeticaly pristine system I have as it was used in a bank and well cared for. At one point I swapped the hard disks around and after which was unable to run the refdisk as the floppy drive had seemingly failed. After some cleaning of the drive though everything was fine and it was back to normal. Hardware wise it has the following:
A 90MHz Type 4 Complex
64Mb (8x8Mb ECC) of Memory
A 1Gb IBM Hard Disk
Latest Revision Cached SCSI Adapter
An XGA-2 Card
A Madge MC32 Smart RingNode
And now onto the three that are left...
On the left you have one of two 9585s and on the right my 9595A.
Starting with the latter, this system was throwing out all sorts of CP codes and then one day, stopped POSTing all together. After much troubleshooting I found that the planar had failed, likely bad capacitors, and nabbed a NIB replacement planar off of FleeBay for $70. Not too bad I'd say. After replacing the planar the system POSTed normally and asked for a refdisk, however I currently can't give it one as I'm out of 2.88Mb drives and need a couple more. This system also had it's RAID cages, hot-swap drive trays and RAID controller stripped from it which borderline infuriated me, as I've been wanting a set to use ever since I brought home my first 95. Obviously, I can't consider this system truly restored until I track down the cages, trays and four-drop SCSI cable that it originally had (I have a couple of cached SCSI controllers around so at least I'm good on that front). Hardware wise, I hope to have it configured with the following at some point:
A 90MHz Type 4 Complex (Have)
256Mb (8x32Mb ECC) of Memory (Halfway there)
6x 1Gb Quantum Drives in RAID 0 (Need the drives, cages, trays and SCSI cable)
Cached SCSI Controller upgraded to 64Mb of Cache (Have)
An XGA-2 Card (Have)
A Madge MC32 Smart RingNode (Need)
Now onto the first of my two 9585s. This system has acted very strangely since I've had it. It powers on the moment you insert a power cable and will not power back off until unplugged. It also does not POST whatsoever. I suspect it has multiple issues, though the power supply or switch is probably one of them. Aside from missing a floppy drive, this system is pretty much configured how I want it with the following:
A 66MHz Cyrix DX2
32Mb (4x8Mb Parity) of Memory
A 1Gb Quantum Lightning Hard Disk
An XGA-2 Card
A Madge MC32 Smart RingNode (Need)
Finally, the second 9585. As mentioned, this system was home to some mice at one point and as such, pretty much everything aside from the case is ruined and even then that's fairly corroded inside. If I can save the case, I'll probably just recap my bad 9595A planar, track down the miscellaneous parts (side panel fan, op. panel with display, etc.) and convert this over to a 9595 with the following:
A 66MHz Type 4 Complex
64Mb (8x8Mb ECC) of Memory
A 1Gb IBM Hard Disk
Latest Revision Cached SCSI Adapter
An XGA-2 Card
A Madge MC32 Smart RingNode
Anyways, that's it for this update and sorry for the inconsistency of them, I'm typically juggling ten different projects at once so it can be hard to find time for everything. Have some extra pictures of the 8595 which actually had a bootable install of Win-95 (and some strange backup utility I've never heard of) on it!
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