[rescue] RS/6000 320 key needed

[Patrick Finnegan]

Excellent! The switch should be fairly easy to remove from the lock, and
then you can just turn it with a screw driver.

I have done all of this before, but it's been like two decades probably, so
those neurons are a bit rusty. :)

Patrick Finnegan

On Sun, Aug 17, 2025, 10:45 Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
wrote:

>
>    Update here, one of our guys was able to get it open.  He was able to
> twiddle the front cover a bit, just enough to free the latch.
>
>    So now the battery has been replaced, but of course the CRC in the
> NVRAM is bad, which requires a service mode boot to rewrite.  It's a
> three-position switch with five wires; four would've made it a
> no-brainer.  So now we'll try to figure out how to remove the pins from
> the lock, and/or try to figure out the pinout of the switch to jumper it
> for service mode.
>
>               -Dave
>
> On 8/13/25 14:30, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > Mostly just pry near the lock between the front and top cover. I'm not
> > sure if you can do it without marring the plastic, but it's doable
> > given some tweaking.
> >
> > Pat
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM Dave McGuire via rescue
> > <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 8/13/25 09:40, Patrick Finnegan via rescue wrote:
> >>> Yeah, they're unique per machine.
> >>
> >>     Damn, that's almost unbelievable that they'd do that on such a
> >> high-production-volume machine.  How incredibly frustrating.
> >>
> >>> The best option is to pull the lock apart and remove the pins, so
> >>> anything can turn it. Thanks to the plastic cover, it's not too hard to
> >>> get into even with the lock in "secure".
> >>
> >>     I was able to get the rear of the top cover off of the pins, but I
> >> can't seem to get past the locked part.  It's in "secure".  What's the
> >> trick?  I really don't want to damage this machine; it is otherwise like
> >> new.
> >>
> >>                -Dave
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> >> New Kensington, PA
> >>
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>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
>
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