IBM PC RT 6150
I’ve been on the lookout for an IBM PC RT and was able to acquire this 6150 model. Unfortunately, it was only the tower that I could find so I am trying to figure out how I am going to boot it for the first time and see what’s on it. Through the awesome support of Deskthority, a keyboard enthusiasts community, I was able to get an IBM 6247440 keyboard but it is missing the removable cable. I’m trying to track that down as well as an RT mouse.
Looks like this unit supports the IBM 5081 color display but I fear that will be very difficult to find. My first step will try to hook up a terminal via serial connection and see what I can find out about it.
Below are pictures of the cards that were in the computer. The I/O slots are marked 1 through 8 (top most slot is slot 1 and has the ESDI drive card) and the RT PC slots are marked A through D (start after slot 8 with the CPU in slot A):
Slot 1: Enhanced ESDI card
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 1 – Enhanced ESDI front
Slot 2: Token Ring card
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 2 – Token Ring front
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 2 – Token Ring back
Slot 3: Serial/Parallel card
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 3 – Serial Parallel front
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 3 – Serial Parallel back
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 3 – Serial Parallel interfaces
Slot 4/5: Dual slot Megapel Adapter cards
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 4 – Megapel Adapter front
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 4 – Megapel Adapter back
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 5 – Megapel Adapter front
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 5 – Megapel Adapter back
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 4-5 – Megapel Adapter pair
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 4-5 – Megapel Adapter interfaces
Slot 6: (Empty)
Slot 7: Streaming tape drive controller card
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 7 – Streaming Tape drive controller front
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 7 – Streaming Tape drive controller back
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 7 – Streaming Tape drive controller interface
Slot 8: 5080 Peripheral Adapter card
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 8 – 5080 Peripheral adapter front
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 8 – 5080 Peripheral adapter back
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot 8 – 5080 Peripheral adapter interfaces
Slot A: IBM PC RT Processor (CPU) card
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot A – CPU front
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot A – CPU back
Slot B: Coprocessor ccard
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot B – Coprocessor front
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot B – Coprocessor back
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot B – Coprocessor cards separated
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot B – Coprocessor close-up 1
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot B – Coprocessor close-up 2
Slot C: 8 MB ECC Memory card
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot C – 8MB Enhanced ECC memory front
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- IBM 6150 RT – Slot C – 8MB Enhanced ECC memory back
Slot D: Empty
The hard drive in this unit is an H310 model 310MB Maxtor ESDI Drive:
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- IBM 6150 RT – H310 ESDI hard disk drive
