IBM Xstation 140?

Ed C. edcross at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 17:01:33 CDT 2018


RISC @ 33MHZ

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 10:51 PM Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> 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 <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> 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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