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27 Nov 2004

On Nov 27 2004, 18:53, Jules Richardson wrote:
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  On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 12:50 +0000, Pete Turnbull
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  and a 16-processor x 180MHz R10K Origin2000.

 I thought you only had 8 in that thing! :-) 
You only saw one module and one FC-RAID box; there's a second one at
work, in the proper O2K rack with some more PCI cards, a couple of XIO
cards, an Origin Vault, and a bunch more Craylink cables.

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  I'm thinking our R5K Indy with the 24bit board
might be useful as a
 front-end for some ray tracing exhibit - I think it's the only 'old'
 machine we have with 24 bit colour.

 We've just got that machine, a pair of R4K Indys (one with a duff CPU so
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  spares only) 
I may have a spare CPU module.

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  The latter three still only have one keyboard to share
between them
 though :-( 
I'll try to remember to count my keyboards and see if I have a spare.

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  It'd be nice to find an O200 or O2000 someday!

 > The O2K is currently split into two units, one at home (with all the
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   extra
bits'n'bobs) and one on loan to a research unit at the
 University. 
 Aha! :) 
I'll remember you said that if I need to find space to keep the O2K
rack :-)

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   And work have
stopped buying/suuporting SGI :-( 
 does that mean you'll be clearing them out of all things SGI? ;-) 
Depends.  Several departments have SGIs of their own, which they keep
running even though we no longer provide support for them, as of this
summer.  They're mostly Indys and a few O2s, but there's the odd Power
Challenge etc.  We have a bunch of O2s which were classroom machines,
and were retired in the summer, but I'm not sure yet what will happen
to them.  I might be able to get you one or two.  They're low-spec,
though: R5K-180, 4GB disks, mostly only 64MB RAM.  Most of us in
CompServ who have O2s are keeping them :-)

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York