[rescue] RS/6000 595

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Chad Fernandez wrote:

> > Well, even if it goes for the BIN of $1000, it's still a good deal.
> > That thing runs like greased lightning for anything FP-heavy.
>
> Wow, I didn't realize the Microchannel systems still held that kind of
> value in the market.  I've seen them on Ebay, but didn't think they
> actually went for that kind of money.

Not *all* microchannel RS/6000's.  But a 595 with a gig of RAM is still
worth significant amounts of money.  This has two 80MB/s Microchannel
busses and does four-way interleave on RAM.  Can we say "bandwidth"?

Peace...  Sridhar