It may be too much; back in the day the 3000-300LX was an OSF 1.3 machine and it was quite speedy, though having said that my own 3000-300 came with Tru64 4.0G CDs so 5.x could be OK. I've got easy access to 4.0x CDs if needs be but since I'm in the UK and currently on the end of a slow DSL connection then a CD copy and post would be necessary. cheers a

Ah! Compared to what I was using at the time it was very speedy indeed :) I have good memories of the 3000-300LX purely because that was the machine I taught myself OSF/1 on over the space of 5 weekends because the bloke who HAD been looking after these machines upped and left without much warning. Because of that I subjected myself to many DECstations and Ultrix 4.x stuff purely because I could, and that helped me with many things I still use today on the unix front. cheers a

I'd love to have a copy of those CDs.... I live in the states (Maryland) and ... yea :) ----- I'm a VMS guy, so I've got 7.3-1 and 8.2 for AXP if you're interested. They both run great on my 3000/700. ---- I'd love to have that too, I can swap harddrives :) On Apr 5, 2005 6:18 PM, Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote: -- Gary G. Sparkes Jr. KB3HAG

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:54:53 -0400 Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com> wrote: I looked. reputable.com wants $85 for a bare O2 sled. That's a little wedge of plastic with a tricky lever on it. Ouch. I paid $20 for each for my O2's (missing the sled.) Those are legitimate prices for SGI hardware, for business use. But we're hobbyists here. O2 sleds on eBay don't get bid up that high in my observation, btw.

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:12:49 -0400 Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com> wrote: I only have one sled for my two O2's, but got it out of a fifteen dollar auction box that also had five SGI keyboards and mice for the O2. It's really unfortunate that the hard drive sleds become a serious barrier in using a lot of older machines. The original owner just pulls the drive, for security reasons, and never bothers to detach it from the sled and put the sled back. Used HD sleds have become the 'key' item and often cost significantly more than the whole rest of the machine in the used market. I have a military 'portable' (yeah, it has fold down keyboard, LCD,and handles. But it's pretty bulky...) Sparc system here in a VME chassis. It's complete except for the drive and sled. I'm eventually expecting to open the case and somehow mount a SCSI drive directly in the area where the sled originally went. I doubt if sleds for portable military VME chassis SCSI drives are available and/or affordable for mere mortals.

Interesting, any chance of pictures? I'm wondering if this is the type system I'm thinking of. Are you sure it's an LCD, and not Gas Plasma? Zane