Wanted to buy for a reasonable price + shipping:
3-1/2" drive sled for SGI Indigo2
5-1/4" drive sled for SGI Indigo2
(x3) 3-1/2" drive bracket for SGI Indy
Anyone with some extras? Please contact me off-list.
Last weekend I came across a(n) SGI Indigo2 and several Indys at the
local university surplus store. Having no experience with SGI gear I
couldn't resist and picked up the Indigo2 and (x2) Indys. The prices
were quite reasonable, and now I know why! There are no drives inside.
As a rule, all systems from this outlet are stripped of their drives
before being put on sale. If only I'd known.
This particular surplus store always binds the machines closed with
nylon shipping straps to prevent people from delving inside and lifting
little parts without paying for the machine. So I couldn't 'pop the
lid' and check them out. And, you can't cut them open until you buy.
What is the saying?..."What you don't know can't hurt you," or something
like that? ;) My ignorance of SGI gear and the store's policy cost me
on this one. Live and learn!
Anyway, I now have an Indigo2 (pre-IMPACT! green case) with what I think
is 256MB RAM, and 2 identical Indys with R4600/133 CPUs and mabye 128MB
RAM, all without disks. I'll know more when I get a 13W3-to-VGA cable
rigged up.
Anyway, hoping to resurrect them with some flavor of BSD, or even IRIX
5.3 if I can find it.
Thanks,
Jared