It depends on the framebuffers. I believe these machines came standard
with GT1-series framebuffers, and support has been removed in AIX >= 4.
If you replace the framebuffer, the 220 should make a really nice
Xterminal.
Peace... Sridhar
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> I found some new toys out at Purdue Surplus this week...
>
> 2xIBM RS/6000 model 220 -- POWER single chip 33MHz
>
> 2xIBM RS/6000 model 250 -- PowerPC 601, 66MHz
>
> The one I opened had both memory and a hard disk, and all but one of them
> still had their keys.
>
> These things are nice pizza-box sized things, I'm tempted to try and use
> them as X-Terminals, since they do have framebuffers. Has anyone tried
> this before?
>
> Pat
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Received on Mon Apr 28 2003 - 01:42:32 BST