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IBM RS/6000 43P Model 132

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, I've read, Windows NT.



Specifications:

 Architecture: PReP
 CPU:PowerPC 604 100/120/133MHz
 Cache:32kB L1 and 512kB asynchronous L2 
 RAM: 0-192MB RAM, 0-6 FPM SIMMs with parity.
 Video: Integrated IBM E15 2MB (based on S3 Vision 864 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 and COM) 
 Ethernet:Integrated AMD 79C970A PCnet32 PCI 
 Audio:Integrated Crystal Audio CS4232 

Documentation:
I have none at all. Have a PDF copy of anything? Email me.

System Management Services:
Lacking documentation as I do, I don't really know what SMS does. It seems to be the machines "firmware" - as far as I can see it doesn't have anything much in ROM like Sun, SGI and DEC machines do. You can download an image of the System Management Services disk (below) and use it to create a new SMS disk if you don't already have one. The file format is a normal zip file containing a comment and the raw image. You can write it directly with winimage or just extract it with 7zip and write it using rawrite.

Based on trial and error, I have discovered that pressing F4 while the status icons are visible at the bottom of the screen should bring up a (text-mode) SMS interface provided you have the disk in the drive. 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 seem to have no function. I have not tried the others.

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