Interesting Relic

[Jima]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Christopher Brown wrote:
> On 10/08/07, chris at idlelion.net <chris at idlelion.net> wrote:
>> If any developers out there are up for a challenge...
>>
>> There's a ThinkPad 860 on eBay. It's got a 166MHz PowerPC 603e CPU and a 1.2GB
>> SCSI hard disk. The video chip is a GT20; there's a SCSI CD-ROM drive; and the
>> audio chip is a CS4231. The display is a 12.1" TFT at 1024x768. It shipped with
>> AIX and was made around 1996.
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120150103566

  The boot ROM on that is obviously not New-World (not sure what it'd be, 
being a non-Apple PPC), so bootstrapping Fedora (or any Linux, I suppose) 
might be quite the challenge.  (Mind, I am running Fedora on a couple 
Old-World Apples.  To say it's complicated would be putting it mildly.)

> Yes but Will It Blend?

  I think you'd need a fairly big blender.  And tough; it IS an old IBM 
product. :-)

> Seriously though, what is the challenge? Also its relevance on
> fedora-devel would be good...

  To get Fedora running on it?  I can appreciate the urge, but I gotta say, 
that makes my corner cases look like mainstream use.  And I've got some 
pretty crazy corner cases.

      Jima