New finds this week

From: Thilo Schmidt <thilo.schmidt_at_unix-ag.uni-siegen.de>
Date: Mon Apr 28 01:43:01 2003

On 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?
If you have at least 64MB-RAM, a GXT150 Framebuffer and a fast HD
the 250 makes not only a good X-Terminal but a very useful and *quiet*
workstation. I use mine for Mail, News, Latex, programming and other stuff
that doesn't need much horsepower. (don't use Java ;-) )
The 220 is somewhat slower but should still be fast enough if you stick with
AIX 4.2.

bye

        Thilo
Received on Mon Apr 28 2003 - 01:43:01 BST