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not mine - IBM PS/2 Modem 95 Server, $50 BIN

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Maverick1978

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Here.

It hasn't been tested, but the price is right. I've only seen two other model 95 units come up to auction in the last two years, and both sold for much more than the $50 BIN this one has.

They also had a Model 95A, which included the IBM CD-ROM drive made for the Model 90/95 series. I snagged that one.

Cross my fingers that it's working upon arrival! Even if it's not, there's enough parts in these that I could come close to breaking even (assuming that it's unrepairable)
 
The one you snagged is nice, has the same CDROM and bezel my model has (need to find some of those bezels so I can install a MO drive).
 
Maverick1978 said:
Here.

It hasn't been tested, but the price is right. I've only seen two other model 95 units come up to auction in the last two years, and both sold for much more than the $50 BIN this one has.

They also had a Model 95A, which included the IBM CD-ROM drive made for the Model 90/95 series. I snagged that one.

Cross my fingers that it's working upon arrival! Even if it's not, there's enough parts in these that I could come close to breaking even (assuming that it's unrepairable)
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Uh, why does it say "**Note: This listing is for the unit only, power supply not included**"?...

It's an 8595 planar, and the label on the front says "0LF" (which is a 486DX2-50 Type 2 complex, and a 400Mb SCSI HDD)...

Top to bottom, the adapters are a "Spock" SCSI, 16/4 Token Ring (missing blockout above it, and the "Ring 1" label on the front would have told how it was connected in their TR environment), and XGA-2...
 
*shrugs*

I'm figuring that he meant the power cord... if it's not like the picture, then I'ma be highly aggravated. Enough to file a grievance w/ eBay and file for my money back through Paypal. But we'll see :)

So far as the processor card, I'm crossing my fingers that it was updated at some point - I was really hoping for another Pentium complex! (I've 2 Type 2 complex's already for my 9590)
 
Maverick1978 said:
*shrugs*

I'm figuring that he meant the power cord... if it's not like the picture, then I'ma be highly aggravated. Enough to file a grievance w/ eBay and file for my money back through Paypal. But we'll see :)

So far as the processor card, I'm crossing my fingers that it was updated at some point - I was really hoping for another Pentium complex! (I've 2 Type 2 complex's already for my 9590)
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I've not seen a system where someone put a submodel label so prominently to mark what a unit was. The "Ring" number being identified means that it was in an environment (with more than one Token Ring loop) where that was important to know. Such upgrades were possible, but to me it would be rather uncommon.

There is a blockout missing above the TR card. It could be that there was a ServerGuard adapter, which has a power control brick. A far-fetched guess, but a possibility to explain the seller's comment.
 
IBMMuseum said:
I've not seen a system where someone put a submodel label so prominently to mark what a unit was. The "Ring" number being identified means that it was in an environment (with more than one Token Ring loop) where that was important to know. Such upgrades were possible, but to me it would be rather uncommon.

There is a blockout missing above the TR card. It could be that there was a ServerGuard adapter, which has a power control brick. A far-fetched guess, but a possibility to explain the seller's comment.
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Sorry - I mistyped, I think. I was speaking of the one that I purchased, the Model 95A here. I can't make out the type on the label, and unlike the Model 95, there were no discerning marks on this case short of a sharpie-marked 'A' in the upper left corner of the front case.

No matter what type of complex is in there, I have several flavors already, varying from the 486SX w/ 487 copro, 2 or 3 of the 486 DX2-50, and the P90.. I'm good to go, I was just hoping for another P90 card so that I could mod it for the 200mhz speed as a fun side project without risk of my working/good P90 complex.
 
Maverick1978 said:
Sorry - I mistyped, I think. I was speaking of the one that I purchased, the Model 95A here. I can't make out the type on the label, and unlike the Model 95, there were no discerning marks on this case short of a sharpie-marked 'A' in the upper left corner of the front case.

No matter what type of complex is in there, I have several flavors already, varying from the 486SX w/ 487 copro, 2 or 3 of the 486 DX2-50, and the P90.. I'm good to go, I was just hoping for another P90 card so that I could mod it for the 200mhz speed as a fun side project without risk of my working/good P90 complex.
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Ok, with a 9595 planar it has to be a T4: 'N' (486DX2-66), 'P' (P60), 'Q' (P66), or 'Y' (P90). Each 9595 submodel seem to be about equally populated in the wild. When it was the full 'Array" unit (which this unit is not, the 'Passplay' RAID adapter would be in the top slot, and the drives would be different) they were 'Y's [EDIT: Actually the Array submodels can be any T4 complex].

I verified the 'N' to be "CPUID-sensitive": You can downgrade the 486DX2-66 (CPUID 043xh) to a 486DX-33, but it has to be a CPUID 041xh, not CPUID 040xh. It also won't run the "Enhanced" Write-Through L1 486DX2-66 either (when the L1 is set as WT, the CPUID becomes 0470h). No CPUs other than what report 041xh and 043xh, meaning 486DX4 Overdrives and AMD-based upgrades are out.
 
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#@*%!

I spend three years looking for one and here's one that's cheap and easy on shipping and I MISS IT!!
Oh well. The IrisVision will have to wait for another day....
 
NeXT said:
I spend three years looking for one and here's one that's cheap and easy on shipping and I MISS IT!!
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:mad:Agreed:mad:

Hey Mav, when you get it, tell us if you got the power supply with it. The seller said he wouldn't include the power supply, which we thought was just the power cord.
Would ya sell it to me??:D
 
I appreciate the offer, but I think I'll be good ;)

Obviously I'll let you guys know if it comes in with the power supply removed. If they go to those kind've lengths, I'm gonna chew someone big-time for the misleading pictures - as well as try to get my money back via buyer protection :) We'll see!
 
Alright... short update, as I'm at work. It arrived today. A report that takes awhile to pull data allowed me a few moments to pull it out of the box.

It's a type 9595-3QT. First thing that I noticed was that it was HEAVY. Heavy-gauge, thick steel all around. I wasn't expecting that. Second, the floppy and CD drives have dust flaps (yay!)

Third: it has the power supply included ;)

(although the steel "cage" over the PS fan is rusty - disassembly and sanding required. Hopefully, that's all that's required)

More later.. maybe some pix?
 
Rust isn't that bad, better then dealing with liquid black weather stripping like the model 60/65/80 has.
 
@IBMMuseum... spot on - as I've just now gotten it disassembled, pulled the cards, replaced the button cell battery, pulled the drives, and am preparing to go and blow out the dust with the tire fill hose at the local convenience store - this is perhaps the dustiest machine I've ever seen!

@Ian... The front panel works! :D

Type 4 P60 complex, two video cards surprisingly - one has dual 15-pin connectors, one has 1 15-pin connector. Tri-head setup?

RJ45 ethernet, Fast SCSI controller with on-board RAM, with the CD-ROM and 5 hard drives in the array... this thing is loaded to the gills.

Only 72mb of RAM though - 4x16mb and 2x8mb with 2 empty slots. Think I'm going to have to max that out - need to research if it's capable of using non-IBM ram :)

And the saga continues.... need to charge the camera battery, too.

For anyone that wants a good look at the inside of these things, here's a site I found to double-check my thoughts on the disassemble (I was wanting to be doubly sure that I didn't break some of the plastic here)

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Now it's an hour later... The case has the majority of the loose dust blown out, canned air got the PS blown out, and I've got everything back installed. Powering on... nothing. Literally. Reseat the power supply itself, reseat the power cord, and now it's booting! Front panel display works (yay!), hard drives spin up, unit responds to keyboard input, but when it tries to boot from the hard drives, it's telling me that 2 of the 5 drives are toast (not unexpected). Now it's asking for a reference disk... I'm off to make that, re-init everything that I can, and hopefully we'll have a functional machine in a little bit. Assuming that the floppy drive works, of course :)

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Floppy drive works, woohoo!!! Now to track down ref disks for the cards in slot 3 and 6 (the ethernet card and the 2-port "video" card, respectively!)
 
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