RS/6000 values

[Rico Pajarola]

Looking at Ebay it seems old RS/6000 have become expensive...

A Working 7012-390 is certainly rare, they were finicky beasts. I have a
7012-3AT (very similar to the 390) and it's failing diag in weird ways.
I've seen a few 390/3AT/3BT/3CT and all of them had similar issues.

If you just want a nice machine to run old AIX, try to find a 7011-250 or
any of the 7012 series (especially the later ones like 360/370/380). If it
doesn't have to be AIX 3.x, get a 7043-43P or 7046-B50.



On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 5:35 AM Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Hi there!
>
>    I don't usually see much discussion on old IBM boxes, but I was looking
> for a reasonably-powerful RS/6000 that can run AIX 4.1 and maybe 3.2.5, can
> accommodate some decent disks, and isn't 200lbs.  The 7012-390 looks
> perfect, but I found this one on eBay:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-7012-390-POWER2-512MB-Memory-1GB-SCSI-2-Disk-Drive-CD-Base-Features-RS6000/272362237797?epid=1604049867&hash=item3f6a0def65:g:aJQAAOSwHnFVmutE:rk:1:pf:1
>
>
>    Are 7012-390's really worth $3,000?  Anyone out there have one they'd
> like to unload for less than 3 grand? :P
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -Ben
>
>
>
>