[rescue] IBM RS/6K 40P?

vance at neurotica.com vance at neurotica.com
Sun Feb 2 21:27:35 CST 2003


I don't know whether the 40P is worth $30.  It's one of the first
generation of PCI RS/6000's.  Any of the POWER2 or better MCA RS/6000
would stomp it into the ground.  It's a PowerPC 601 @60MHz.

Peace...  Sridhar

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:

> My knowledge of RS/6k is limited, so bear with me.
>
> A friend was browsing in a compuer renaissance store yesterday and told
> me he saw a stack of pizza box systems. They are, allegedly, PPC and
> windows NT compatable. His memory (he's a PC guy that I'm trying to
> cure) is something about a 700 in the model number. I'm thinking it was
> 7000 and the 40P seems likely. Is this plausable? If it is, the asking
> price for these is $30 - reasonable? In searching it looks like Linux
> and AIX 4.x are supported.
>
> Thanks,
>
> William
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