[rescue] IBM RS6k 7006

[Paul Khoury]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 13:47:38 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:

>On July 4, Harri Haataja wrote:
>> So tonight, just for the hell of it, I took a trip to a store nearby
>> that buys out old things from companies and new things as well and sell
>> them both over net and from the storeroom. Mostly PC, though, but cables
>> and laser printers and whatnot are universal, so what the hell. I was
>> looking through the heaps of cables and cards when a red sticker saying
>> "PowerPC" caught my attention.
>
>  That's cool.  Though hacking on RS/6000 stuff for the first time over
>the past few months has taught me VERY thoroughly just how much the
>PowerPC is a "scaled down" POWER-architecture machine.  I have a 66MHz
>POWER2 machine here (RS/6000 3CT) that runs rings around 604e/200s.
>By extrapolation I'd have to guess it'd be comparable to a 604e at,
>say 250MHz or maybe 275MHz.  Not bad at a 66MHz clock.
>
>> It's an IBM RS/6000 7006 (badge says 410) with 4x8M and 4xsomething_else
>> and a 1G drive. Framebuffer has a queer connector with 3 coax "pins" in
>> a d-shell. Like a 13W3 without the 13. I doubt I can get a cable. Making
>> one might just be possible, though.
>
>  3W3.  Those cables are common in the DEC world.  Look for a video
>cable for a color framebuffer on a DECstation-5000.
>

I used to have a cable like this, as I had a 7006-41T at one time.
It's a 3W3 to 13W3.  I don't know how soon I can get it, if you still need it.

Paul