[rescue] FS/FT: RS/6000 42T

[Julius Sridhar]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> > I've got a headless IBM RS/6000 42T here, 128Mb RAM, Toshiba SCSI
> > CD-ROM, and a 2gig (might be a 4gig; I havent powered it up in a
> > few days) HD for sale.  Will include AUI to 10baseT ethernet transceiver.
> > Has no video card, but works fine with a serial console.  120Mhz PPC 604e.
> >
> > Got this about a week ago, loaned out my AIX CDs after doing a base
> > install, and realized the last thing I need is more computer hardware
> > at this point.
>
> Does that take MCA cards, cause I just recently saw a set of really cool
> 3D accelerator cards for MCA RS/6ks.  Apparently a large part of the design
> came from SGI.

You mean the SGI Irisvision MCA?  Not just a large part, those boards were
completely designed and fabbed by SGI, labelled by IBM, and sold by IBM.
They will also work in PS/2's.  I am in the process of writing an XFree86
Server for them.  There are better cards out there for RS/6000's, but not
for PS/2's.

Peace...  Sridhar