9 Mar
2018
9 Mar
'18
7:58 p.m.
I won an auction down at Indiana University for an SGI Origin 2000 System
and 19 racks.
Trip was an adventure. Rented a 26ft Penske Truck which was a junkheap in
itself. Off we went. My gf and her best friend went along and had a blast.
7 Hour drive down from Michigan to Bloomington Indiana. In a rainstorm at
dark. Waffle House outside of Indianapolis made for a very nice night.
Got loaded up 9am yesterday morning. And headed home.
Here are pics of the SGIs. And my gf's find an IBM Selectric II. Shes a
typewriter lover.
https://imgur.com/a/XzDXg
Plan now is to start rounding up parts to fix it. It seems mostly cosmetic.
Goal is to have it fully operational by VCFMW.
I also found some historical info on it too
https://www.hpcwire.com/1997/05/16/indiana-u-installs-64-node-origin2000/
Eventually this belongs on display somewhere. I plan to get an inventory
of everything this week. and Im looking for any extra parts that anyone
has for this.
Thanks
10 Mar
10 Mar
11:42 a.m.
On 03/09/2018 05:58 PM, PhreakShow Telephone Company via cctalk wrote:
I won an auction down at Indiana University for an SGI
Origin 2000 System
and 19 racks.
:-)
Trip was an adventure. Rented a 26ft Penske Truck
which was a junkheap in
itself. Off we went. My gf and her best friend went along and had a blast.
7 Hour drive down from Michigan to Bloomington Indiana. In a rainstorm at
dark. Waffle House outside of Indianapolis made for a very nice night.
Memories.
Got loaded up 9am yesterday morning. And headed home.
Nice.
Here are pics of the SGIs. And my gf's find an IBM
Selectric II. Shes a
typewriter lover.
;-)
Is that ATM or FDDI interfaces? I can't tell from the picture.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
11 Mar
11 Mar
9:27 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 12:58:52AM +0000, PhreakShow Telephone Company via cctalk wrote:
I won an auction down at Indiana University for an SGI
Origin 2000 System
and 19 racks.
19 racks! Quite a few.
Trip was an adventure. Rented a 26ft Penske Truck
which was a junkheap in
itself. Off we went. My gf and her best friend went along and had a blast.
7 Hour drive down from Michigan to Bloomington Indiana. In a rainstorm at
dark. Waffle House outside of Indianapolis made for a very nice night.
Sounds like a great roadtrip
Got loaded up 9am yesterday morning. And headed home.
Here are pics of the SGIs. And my gf's find an IBM Selectric II. Shes a
typewriter lover.
https://imgur.com/a/XzDXg
Looks like you have two CPU modules and one graphics module. Not a bad
starter system.
Plan now is to start rounding up parts to fix it. It seems mostly cosmetic.
Goal is to have it fully operational by VCFMW.
That would be cool, do you know of nekochan.net? It's a fairly active
SGI forum with several Origin/Onyx owners (myself included)
Eventually this belongs on display somewhere. I plan
to get an inventory
of everything this week. and Im looking for any extra parts that anyone
has for this.
Anything in particular? Looks like you have enough to get a system going.
/P
9:38 a.m.
That's awesome. I did Origin 2000 and Onyx 2 repair training over at
the SGI building that now houses the Computer History Museum.
I don't have any parts, but keep us in the loop. I would come down to see that
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 7:58 PM, PhreakShow Telephone Company via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I won an auction down at Indiana University for an SGI
Origin 2000 System
and 19 racks.
1:44 p.m.
On 03/09/2018 06:58 PM, PhreakShow Telephone Company via cctalk wrote:
I won an auction down at Indiana University for an SGI
Origin 2000 System
and 19 racks.
Aha, we were just discussing these on the Facebook vintage group... are
those two populated racks and 17 empty ones, or is there more to it than
that? It's hard to tell exactly what there is. I suppose I can stop being
impatient and wait for an inventory :-)
I'm not sure what the deal is with the enclosure that's holding the
graphics hardware - there are a couple of empty slots and I'm not sure if
that implies there was something there which has been removed, or if the
blanking covers have just been taken off at some stage.
cheers
Jules
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