[rescue] IBM RS/6K 40P?

[William Barnett-Lewis]

vance at neurotica.com wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yeah, I noticed the CPU. I have a PowerMac 6100/60 so I have a slight
feel for the performance ;'> And at least I can stick a g3/4 into it... 

Still, I thought it best to ask where people like you or Dave McGuire
might answer. I think I'll concentrate on helping him get his Indy
running to get something other than NT on his home network.
 
> 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.

Thank you,

William
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