IBM Workstation RS6000 with 19 Inch Montior only 300$

[mikebill]

Any comments about this item?
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IBM RS/6000 7006-41T Unix-Based Graphics Workstation with 80MHz RISC CPU, 64MB RAM,
1.0GB Hard Drive, 19" Monitor
80MHz PowerPC 601 Processor
Gt4xi 24 bit graphics card
6091 19" Color Monitor
1.0GB SCSI-2 Disk Drive
Integrated Ethernet Controller
Integrated SCSI-2 I/O Controller for Three Internal and Two External SCSI or SCSI-2 Devices
64MB ECC Memory Expandable to 256MB
Keyboard
Mouse

 

[rigor3]

well if you have a copy of AIX, and want to learn it, its an okay deal.

Really slow stuff here.

not much good these days

300 bucks could buy you a nice celeron system. throw solaris x86 or linux on it and learn

actually thats an overkill. my amd486-dx-100 works quite well for linux

 

[Lore]

It might be worth it just for the monitor/memory.

 

[edmeister]

I don't think this is worth the money if you plan on actually trying to use this system. It's really slow (80 MHz) and it is using a very old generation of PowerPC risc chip (601) This looks like it may have been one of the first generation risc chip based units.

The memory is probably not on a DIMM, but rather a SIMM of some sort (maybe 30 pin or 72 pin). I've looked into systems almost as old as this one, and saw that they use 72 pin SIMMS for memory.

The monitor will probably use a coaxial connector type (separate RGB channels on BNC connectors). Not the regular VGA connector. You'd have to buy an adapter cable for this monitor if you want to use it on a PC.

I'd stay away from this if I were you.

 

[burnedout]

Went to the website. If it's $300.00 for one with the monitor, that's not really a good deal.

A while back, I used one of these at work briefly. The 80 MHz CPU is a bit slow. In my opinion, more like a Sun SPARCstation 2 with the PowerUp CPU. If you could find this with a 200 MHz or faster CPU, then it would be a great deal.

Additionally, I'm not sure, but I believe these workstations only accept 50 pin SCSI drives.

For the Solaris OS, stick with a Sun SPARCstation 10 or 20. Much better online, documented support and more upgrade parts can be found around the net. You can even install Quad CPUs (2 duals) on the MBus slots and up to 512 MB of memory in them. Quite a few SS10/20s are being decommissioned right now by corporations in favor of the newer Ultras. Look around and you can find a barebones chassis without CPU, memory or framebuffer for about $200.00-$250.00.

Then install a dual hyperSPARC CPU in it, along with a Revision 2.25 Open Boot PROM. Add a new Quantum 4.5 GB 7200 RPM SCA drive from Egghead Auctions for about $50.00 shipped. And make that bad boy sing!