13 Mar
2002
13 Mar
'02
5:13 a.m.
On Mar 13, 9:46, Ethan Dicks wrote:
At one of my usual haunts, while I was picking up a couple of $10 SPARC
IPXs (with lotsa RAM and interesting Sbus cards) and an HP LJIIIsi (also
$10), I ran across an unpriced Indigo. This means that it will be
available for sale next week. The trick... it's been gutted. There's
no RAM, no drives, I think no sleds, and several conspicuous empty
sockets on the motherboard. There _are_ two large PCBs inside, and the
PSU is present (but no guarantees it's working).
Is this thing even worth $10?
Depends on what's missing. If there are empty spaces for IC's on the CPU
board, probably not unless the skins are in good condition and you want
them to replace a scratched set. The special SGI SIMMs (I'm assuming this
is an R3000 Indigo) aren't that hard to find. If it's the graphics board
that's missing ICs, it may be OK -- depending on which graphics board it
is.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York