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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 10:35:02 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cheap power-pc platform on eBay...
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On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 09:55:00AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> There are quite a number of these gadgets on eBay right now, they would
> probably make a cheap entry-level platform for powerpc work:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2059912083

Be careful buying one.  I got one a year ago, and even though the ad said
"Ethernet" it was "Token ring Ethernet".  :-(

So I would be very careful to check the model number at the IBM site
before buying.

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