IBM RS/6000 43P Model 140 (7043-140)

System Type: 7043-140

Advisory: confusingly, the RS/6000 7043 is one of the few unique 'system types' that features dissimilar hardware! Normally an IBM system type indicates that the motherboard/firmware and other main components remain similar, but not so with the RS/6000 7043 43P and its various (incompatible) models between one another.

To add to the confusion, the Model 240 and 140 look identical externally, but internally they are not. Even more confusingly, the Models 140 and 150 sometimes shared documentation together, but then IBM merged it all with the Model 240 (which is why a lot of PDFs have the Model 140, 150 and 240 together). The Model 150 is quite far removed from the 140 and 240.

Released in 1996, manufacturing ceased in 2000 but IBM continued to support these systems up until 2017 (like most RS/6000s).

Note: Firmware package contains both DOS (.exe) and AIX (.bin) packages

Downloads

Manuals

• IBM RS/6000 7043 Model 140 Setup Instructions
• IBM RS/6000 7043 Model 140 Service Guide
• IBM RS/6000 7043 Model 140 User's Guide

• RS/6000 Systems Handbook 2000 Edition
• UNIX Workstations Facts and Features (2003)
• System i & p PCI adapters (44 MB!)
• System i & p fans
• IBM IntelliStation POWER and IBM RS/6000 Graphics Performance Report
• RS/6000 SpaceBall Announcement on AIX

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Firmware, Drivers, & Software

• System Firmware TIG04204 (08/2004)

• 3Dconnexion Xdriver AIX 5+ (4.66 11/18/2005)
• 3Dconnexion Xdriver AIX 4 (4.64 03/04/2005)
• Open Sound System for AIX (OSS/AIX v3.9.8g) Note: you must purchase a license from 4Front Technologies to activate OSS/AIX (while it's released as open source the old UNIX versions are not).

OS Support

• AIX 7.2 Not Supported
• AIX 7.1 Not Supported
• AIX 6.1 Not Supported
• AIX 5.3 Not Supported
• AIX 5.2 Not Supported
• AIX 5.1 Supported
• AIX 4.3.3 Supported
• AIX 4.2.1 Supported
• AIX 4.1.5 Supported
• AIX 3.2.5 Not Supported