#power5 — Public Fediverse posts

Y'know it's been a while since I pissed someone off on social.

So here's a list of the Best #Pizza in each #Power5 #college town.

Come at me bro. 😜

(Yes, I realize that it's the Power4 now but this list is a couple years old.)

To continue the story of my exploration of the #IBM #Power5 in a time before I got job working with it.

Installed Virtual I/O Server (#VOIS) which I felt then was way ahead of vmware during this time. Really nicely integrated software with hardware with the virtual terminals of each OS accessible from VIOS CLI

Installed #AIX v5 and later 6 and of course I also had to try out #Linux on #Power / #PowerPC even though it's the familiar stuff, but always fun to run it on more exotic hardware.

A month late to the IBM 100 years celebration party but I can at least contribute with some lovely experience exploring the #Power5 machines.

A few years before I got a job working with #AIX #UNIX Systems regularly (not any more) I got two #IBM System p5 505 complete with manuals and discs that I used as lab servers to explore the hardware management platform #VIOS, #AIX etc.

2x 1u machines with Dual Power5 1.65GHz, 36MB L3 Cache and 4GB RAM and UltraSCSI320.

Sometimes you just don't have enough space for all the old hardware. #instantregret

Used the #Sun #NetraT1 with #Solaris as web server at home for many years.
And had the #IBM #Power5 machine as a lab server for #AIX stuff as part of my #unix hardware collection I had at home.

Not in the picture is the #Sun #E450 and #V880 I also gave away.

#Retrocomputing #VintageComputing