IBM Xstation 140?

William Donzelli wdonzelli at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 17:04:54 CDT 2018


The 120 also used a 34010 to handle the graphics, I think? It has been
a long time...

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Will
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 5:51 PM Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> TTFN - Guy
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> > On Nov 1, 2018, at 2:36 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> > Wondering if this is an IBM Xstation 140 with token ring
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> > Wonder what processor it uses..
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> > https://www.ebay.com/itm/273538296972
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