-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 February 2003 07:35, Graham Monk wrote: > Hey, i dont know if this of any interest to all those > hardware guys out there but vfxweb.com has an > IBM RS/6000 C20 tower for $200. what is this?
it's a PowerPC based server discontinued in the late 90s. a quick websearch shows the C20 to be a 120Mhz 604. in it's day it was regarded as a good system and these systems were sold in the $10k range IIRC... these days you'll still see people asking $1000+ for them. this is a good deal if you are into that sort of thing. it isn't a powerhouse, by any means though. here's IBM's spec sheet on it.. http://www2.ibmlink.ibm.com/cgi-bin/master?xh=Sn6Uu7JdAxaErL2USenGnF9332&request=salesmanual&parms=H%5F7009%2DC20&xhi=salesmanual%5E%7C%5E&xfr=F > I assume it is possible to get linux running on this, > Dont know how quick it would be but I assume > it would be a pretty tough box, Server anyone? i really don't know which distros would reliably install on that machine. debian, SuSe and Yellow Dog all have RS/6000 support, but i don't know if they cover that particular model. netBSD may also be an option. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+UnMj1rcusafx20MRAs9WAJ0SVGOGLQB3ao//tR1CIbTcdWF/lwCeLpak aEyBV10+xA36DatP+hzNVhw= =lC3G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
