[rescue] RS/6000 board ID

[jwbirdsa at picarefy.com]

>Nice score!  That's not an older MCA machine, that's a newer (quite new)
>MCA machine.

   Really? I thought IBM ditched the POWER family and MCA in favor of the
PPC and PCI years ago. I don't recall seeing a date later than about 1993
anywhere in the box, although that doesn't prove anything.

>The XGA-2 has PC microcode, so it definitely will not work.  If you have a
>GXT150, you should use that as your video card as it's a whole lot newer
>and faster than the XGA.

   Oh well. No head for this guy then, at least not for the foreseeable
future. I'll hang onto the XGA in case I ever get a PS/2. What kind of sync
does the GXT150 put out?

>AIX?  4.3.3 or 5L.  Get it from IBM, unless you feel like going illegal,
>then I wouldn't be the one to ask.

   IBM, it seems, doesn't really want you buying AIX. You can buy upgrades,
but not the OS itself. And it wasn't that long ago that somebody posted
here the tale of their quest to get AIX from IBM...
   But where IBM lacks, Ebay shall provide. :)

   Does anybody know a good place to get RS/6000 parts, such as an octopus
for the async board and an L2 cache SIMM?

>BTW, your Sun Hardware Reference has taught me a lot.  I'm glad to repay
>the favor in some small way.

   Thank you!

   --James B.