You can pick up an older RS6000 on eBay for a couple hundred bucks, possibly less. If you search for "RS6000," or "IBM 43p," or "IBM 44p" you should be able to find something. (Make sure you pay...
Thanks very much for the tip. My problem turned out to be something even more basic: my el cheapo hand-me-down KVM was apparently preventing the monitor from synching. Because I was using a funky...
I have an old 7028-6C1 which I'm using to learn AIX. The system didn't include a graphics card, so I connected via the serial port and performed a fresh install of AIX 5L V5.3.