[geeks] Looking for RS/6000 gear

Julius Sridhar vance at ikickass.org
Wed Feb 20 03:14:22 CST 2002


On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Kris Kirby wrote:

> > Hi there people.  Anyone know where I can get three accelerated
> > single-slot Microchannel framebuffers for a superfast MCA RS/6000, cheap?
>
> Speaking of which, do the IBM PCI cards for the RS/6000 have the blue
> extender card, or is that only the MCA stuff? I'd hate to attempt to shove
> a PCI card into an MCA slot in a fit of stupidity...

PCI cards can have extenders, but the extenders look completely different,
because the slot is a different form factor.  Anyway, PCI cards don't look
anything like MCA cards.

Peace...  Sridhar



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