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Availability of P9 hardware post-ISA 3.1 HW launch

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Borley:
FWIW, I do not plan to sell my current RCS boards once the new ones are available. They will become relegated to the roles currently filled by some older x86 systems that I have.

Hasturtium:
I've seen one or two motherboard/CPU combos pop up on eBay, never for more than a few days at a time. The CPUs are readily available, frequently for rates that make me seriously contemplate snagging another motherboard... until I look back and see how high the prices have risen. Oi. I love my Blackbird and use it every day, to the point that it's become my main machine unless I run into something it literally can't do, but I couldn't rationalize getting another one now.

It would not be surprising to see Blackbirds and Talos boards become more available with time - ARM workstation motherboards are becoming more abundant and performant, the platform is aging, RISC-V keeps threatening to grow into more than a cargo cult that'll re-order the embedded market. But nobody's getting mine.

lepidotos:
Yep. I snagged a 231 for $175, probably the greatest deal I've ever gotten. 32 GB memory, too; really all I need is the Blackbird itself, some sort of cooling (I really want to see about getting that SecuFirm 2 mount fabricated but without a way to open up the files to confirm stuff like measurements for a quote; that's something for later), and a bunch of storage. POWER9 might be aging but it'd still be the fastest computer I ever owned, so I can't imagine I won't be perfectly happy with it for a decade or so from now if I'm still even happy with a Power Mac G4.

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