[rescue] IBM RS/6k 48P

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Eric Webb wrote:

> On Monday 03 February 2003 10:30 am, David Selders wrote:
> > I need some help in identifying a IBM box.  I don't have much information
> > about it from the person who has it.  I was only able to get "48p-133" as
> > model number, but that sounds incomplete to me.  He says it is 133mhz and
> > is currently running AIX 4.3.  Any ideas on what it is, or where I can
> > track down more information on it.
>
> That's probably a 43p, I would guess.  IBM model/type 7043-140.  If that's
> what it is, it's a desktop workstation.  PCI bus.  Has integrated SCSI (F/W
> SE, I think?) and 10Mb ethernet.

This isn't a 7043-140.  A 7043-140 is a much newer machine with a 166MHz
604e and better memory bandwidth.  A pretty nice machine.

This is a 7248-133.

> 133Mhz 604 would be pretty slow.

Indeed.

Peace...  Sridhar