1 Apr
2015
1 Apr
'15
7:31 p.m.
On 03/31/2015 08:46 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
Sorry, it's a teal cabinet; I'm crass; I call
them "green" and "purple",
respectively, for non-Impact and Impact I2s :)
:-) I think one of the SGI's did have green on it - I wonder if it wasn't
one of the early IRIS systems, though. But I think SGI would work with
people and create custom colors for the MIPS-era machines if they wanted,
no doubt for a hefty price.
[R8k]
But it's a neat little oddball; I like having a white elephant around.
Yup :) I know what you mean, it's not as though any of this stuff is going
to be *fast* in modern terms, so rare/goofy is often more fun.
I guess I was just lucky to get into the hobby at the
right time ca.
1999-2001 when a lot of this particular gear just happened to be hitting
the secondhand market... I got a lot of my gear from a great guy, Herb
Johnson
I think he used to be on this list, I'm not sure if he still is, though.
Great that you got a pair of matching feet! Use em! I
think the system
looks absolutely gorgeous when on stands. Laying an I2 horizontally on a
desktop does not do it justice, IMO ;)
Yeah, I think they look a lot nicer standing up. Given comments about how
brittle some of the plastics can be, I'm not sure I'd want to try removing
them now anyway ;)
Good luck with the Origin, I've never personally
owned any SGI that
large... closest I come is I've got some guts to a Crimson. IIRC that
hardware was considered kind of "finicky" in its day so might not hurt to
run in a reduced config and keep some for spare parts.
True. And it's not like I *need* all the boards fitted anyway. It just
would have been nice to fire it up as an 8-CPU system just once :-) (the
one I had at work back in the day was an 8-CPU machine; I remember Oracle
throwing a fit one day, because they licensed per-CPU and had been under
the impression for months that it was a single-CPU system)
It looks like I've got 3GB of RAM for it - all in 64MB modules. There are a
lot of them...
cheers
Jules