Hardware For Sale/Trade

I got this RS/6000 from the recycle center on a whim, but it turns out that it can only run AIX, which isn't my area of interest. So I might as well send it to a good home, rather than have it sit around taking up space...


The unit. It's slightly dirty, but otherwise in excellent shape. That's a DDS3 drive on the bottom.


Booting...


Quick OpenFirmware test



The configuration information. 233MHz, one 64MB DIMM, 9.1GB hard disk. There's no expansion cards installed, so no video.

It has AIX 4.3 installed at the moment. I don't have any login information for it, or AIX install media. I won't format it, in order to leave the diagnostic software in place and allow a possible use of a rescue disk to reset the root password, but I do expect that the taker will remove the original owner's data in an ethical fashion.

Also available/included is another model 140, also 233MHz, with 512MB of RAM (as four 128MB DIMMs.) This is in similarly good shape, but is slightly a parts machine, as it doesn't have a CD-ROM drive or hard disks, and also there's a note scrawled on the inside of the case to the effect that memory slot F is bad. However, it does overall work perfectly well, so add in some disk drives and you're in business. This one has an Ethernet card (in addition to the built-in Ethernet) and a controller for some kind of ring-topology mass-storage network (can't remember the name.)

I'm interested in trading one or both for any of the following (in order of desireability):

• Macintosh Quadra 840AV. Doesn't have to be fully working, as I have a board and RAM for one, but I do need a case, PSU, and some drives at the least!
• Any intriguing PDP/VAX/Alpha hardware you may happen to have...
• A PowerPC system that runs NT or OS/2.

Anybody interested?

J- sounds cool but could you make the photo a reasonable size and use the Browse ... and Add the file ... buttons instead ? Those file hosting sites come and go with the wind, which makes these posts useless for future information. Even a photo of an RS/6000 like this could turn out to be helpful to someone someday.

I suppose I could upload directly to the forum, but uploading at a larger size wouldn't do much good because my camera isn't that great (1024 or 1280 would be about the highest meaningful resolution from it.) If there's something you'd like to see in more detail, I could certainly take some closeups, but nothing from my camera is going to be anybody's reference photo, I'm afraid...

Should look like the thing on the right-hand side, without the penguin.

Vertical or horizontal.....

http://ps-2.kev009.com/solinno.co.uk/7043-140/getstarted.html

Umm, actually, the point was not that I wanted to see a clunky old computer. The point was that using file-sharing sites on a forum like this is a bad idea. In a year or a month or a week those photos will be gone. Then there will be nothing here but a big hole. That's bad

Point taken, I guess, but ideally in a year or two these will long since have gone on to someone who wants them more than I do.

So again, anybody interested?

Maybe....... got any pictures?

Right up there in the first post, yeah. Is there something you'd like to see in more detail?

There's nothing but "Image" showing for me when I view the top post. That's what hamei was quoting. Do you still see images when you view the top post? Cuz they've never showed anything for me...

Edit : Ah ha - if I right click on the "Image" and select "View image" from the menu, then I'm whisked off to postimg.org. Not exactly the most intuitive prompt, but I suppose it works...

Huh, that's weird. I double-checked by forcibly refreshing without caching, and they still showed fine...huh. I'll reupload them to the forum, then.

Not sure what was up with all that, but thanks - now I don't have four "pages" of four risque ads at the bottom of the screen distracting me from the RS6k pr0n...

Now come on gang, who's got a trade for John?!