> Mark,
>
> Indeed, changing the search to SGI turned up some good sites. I
> haven't been able to fire these up yet though as the keyboards are
> missing. A quick call to the place I got them and they were located and
> are being saved. Still have to scare up a monitor though.
>
THe keyboards are non-standard, so its a good thing you found them.
The cables for the keyboard are PC keyboard cables, except they
need males connectors on both ends. They won't boot without
a keyboard, stop part way through the initial hardware check in
the boot prom. You can use a VGA monitor with them. If you
have to low end graphics board there is a VGA connector on it,
otherwise you need a cable with 13w3 and VGA connectors.
> Brian.
>
> Mark Green wrote:
>
> >
> > I have a CDC Cyber 910 running happily here beside me. Its
> > a re-labeled SGI Indigo R3K workstation. As far as I can tell
> > only the labels on the case are different. The standard SGI
> > sites have lots of information on these workstations. Very
> > solid, mine survived airline handling on the trip from Edmonton
> > to Hong Kong. They run IRIX (the SGI version of Unix) up to
> > version 5.3.
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Mark Green mark_at_cs.ualberta.ca
> > McCalla Professor (780) 492-4584
> > Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
> > University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
>
> --
> ______
>
>
--
Dr. Mark Green mark_at_cs.ualberta.ca
McCalla Professor (780) 492-4584
Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
Received on Sun Apr 08 2001 - 06:12:35 BST