[rescue] Damn that is one big ass box

[Kevin Loch]

We've got a couple of F80's here.  We also have some B80's, which
are rackable but lack the extra drive bays.  If you are seriously
testing it for comparison, you might want to strip it down to
whatever specs you would eventually lease/purchase.  That box
is probably over $120,000.  The trickest one we have is
4x 375MHz, 2GB ram and it runs almost $50,000 list.

Did it come with AIX 5L?  I found that none of the freeware
packages will install on 5, so on the boxen I needed gcc etc.
on I loaded 4.3.3.

KL

Chris Byrne wrote:
> 
> Their eval box arrived this morning. On a pallet. That weighed 300lbs.
> 
> Instead of the B50 I was expecting they sent me an RS/6000 F80 6x500
> Rs64III, 16gb of ram,  200 some odd gigs of storage, and a 3153
> terminal. At least that's what the packing slip said, I haven't powered
> it up yet.
>