30 Mar
2015
30 Mar
'15
2:30 p.m.
On 03/29/2015 05:57 PM, David Williams wrote:
You should be able to power the machine up without
drives or graphics
options. If no keyboard is detected, all console IO is directed to the
first serial port.
... and, we're up and running. No immediate problems, apart from a broken
connector on the sled for the CDROM drive, which is really a non-issue
right now as there's no CDROM drive in the machine anyway (and the disks
have a viable OS).
The High Impact board set has the optional 4MB of texture RAM, so I'll be
looking for a copy of Quake 2 to run on it :-) It's got 384MB of RAM, which
is likely a healthy amount; I think 512MB was the official max on these
(and it sounds like they'd take a bit more with 128MB modules), but it
already gets pretty toasty in there with the graphics options that it has.
Oh, it turns out that it's an ex-Cray system. It looks like it's still got
Cray-related data on there, but whether it's anything
useful/interesting/non-sensitive etc. remains to be seen.
cheers
Jules