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Here's something you don't see every day

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First post, by sliderider

Posted on 2012-12-30, 18:10

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/290834960768

IBM Thinkpad 850. Top of the line PowerPC Thinkpad runs AIX or NT 4.0 for PPC.

Info here:

http://www.tecnopolis.ca/aixtp/

Reply 1 of 3, by Tetrium

Posted on 2012-12-30, 18:25

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sliderider wrote:
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/290834960768

IBM Thinkpad 850. Top of the line PowerPC Thinkpad runs AIX or NT 4.0 for PPC.

Info here:

http://www.tecnopolis.ca/aixtp/

For a second I thought you were referring to the AIX mod for BF2 😜

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Reply 2 of 3, by luckybob

Posted on 2012-12-31, 00:16

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wow... That laptop is ROUGH, but considering PPC laptops are practically unobtanium...

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. - Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

Reply 3 of 3, by sliderider

Posted on 2012-12-31, 13:12

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luckybob wrote:
wow... That laptop is ROUGH, but considering PPC laptops are practically unobtanium...

Yeah, considering they started at around $12,000 new and went up as you added options, it was a very targeted market so it's not something that was produced by the millions.

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