28 Feb
2009
28 Feb
'09
9:06 a.m.
Richard wrote:
[Oops, hit send too quick]
Just scored a couple SGI 4D/220s from a government auction site.
Anyone have any familiarity with these? Anything I should look out
for besides what's listed on various SGI web sites? (sgistuff,
obsolyte, etc.)
Hmm, I remember 4D /25 and /35 machines being picky about CDROM drives - the
/220 may be the same and you'll find you need to experiment a bit to get
something that works (512 byte block support is a must, of course - but even
amongst those drives, I ended up with one drive that'd work with Indigos and
not 4D machines, and another drive that'd work with 4D machines and not
Indigos :-)
Do your machines come with a keyboard? I think 4D machines have a different
keyboard socket to the Indigos, although the keyboards are compatible - ISTR
wiring up an adapter at one point in time.
I wonder what the /220 is like for speed? The /25 and /35 machines were
slooooow, even for old versions of IRIX (although given the nature of this
list, that's not a big deal :-)
cheers
Jules