The 120 also used a 34010 to handle the graphics, I think? It has been
a long time...

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Will
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 5:51 PM Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> If I recall correctly the Xstation 120 (the first of them) used an 8086 
> (might have been an 80186).  The big issue was that you couldn’t do anything 
> with it because what was in ROM/FLASH was only smart enough to be able to 
> TFTP the rest of the microcode (not terribly useful if you don’t have the 
> image it wants to TFTP).
>
> I think the 140 fixed that (and is somewhat telling from all of the Intel 
> flash parts on the board).  But I don’t know what CPU it’s using.  The IBM 
> metal can is probably the graphics controller.
>
> TTFN - Guy
>
>
> > On Nov 1, 2018, at 2:36 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > Wondering if this is an IBM Xstation 140 with token ring
> >
> > Wonder what processor it uses..
> >
> > https://www.ebay.com/itm/273538296972
> >
>

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