(OT) Sgi Indy - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Jul 2001

...
  Thanks to eBay and a couple of list members, I now
have my Indy up and
 running and on the 'net using my ISDN router as the gateway.  I can also
 ping my office network through the other router.  I'm currently running
 IRIX 6.5.  It has a R4400SC 150mhz cpu, 192mb ram, a 24bit graphics
 card, Granite kb, mouse and 20" Trinitron monitor, a 2gb hard drive and
 an Indycam.  I'm building an external SCSI box to house a DAT drive, the
 CD-ROM, a CD-R drive and a 2gb option drive.  Now I need to find a
 Presenter, a Cosmo board, a 10/100 GIO ethernet card, the XZ graphics
 board and floptical drive to have a fairly complete system.  It looks
 good sitting on my desk next to the NeXT TC slab.   
I'm more than a little green with envy!

...
  Now for my next project, to get the Sparc Station
5's I bought the other
 day up and running! 
Um, I hope you got RAM with those systems.  If not unless they're 5/110's or
5/170's you're probably better off sticking them on eBay and putting the
money towards a Sparc 10 or 20.  Simply put Sparc 5 RAM costs and arm and a
leg unless you get lucky!  Only RAM I've found that's worse is 
AlphaStation 500/333 RAM (I've got both a Sparc 5/70, and a AS500/333).

			Zane