IBM Powerstation 320h

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Sunday 03 August 2008, Doc Shipley wrote:
>> John Floren wrote:
>>> A friend of mine told me he just got an IBM Powerstation 320h
>>> system and wants to know if I want it, but I can't seem to find any
>>> information on it. Anybody here got some typical specs and/or
>>> opinions on the computer?
>>    It's a variant of the 7012-320 - IBM's first desktop POWER system.
>> IBM didn't publish MHz specs then, but suffice it to say that the
>> thing is *slow*.  It'll run AIX 5.1, if you like pain, but v4.3 or
>> even v3.2 is much more its speed.  No pun intended.
> 
> Actually, they did publish the clock speed.  According to my copy of the 
> IBM RS/6000 price list from Sept 21, 1993, the 7012-32H was withdrawn 
> on 8/18/93, had a list price of $11,750, and a CPU speed of 25MHz.
> 
> It's one of the slowest RS/6000 systems that IBM ever produced.

But it was reasonably high-end when it came out.  It's a pretty early 
machine.

Peace...  Sridhar